Public Policy

• Title 1 Waiver Extension Feinstein Bill 2019

LGBTQ

• Participation Cycle 2018-19
• ACAF Benchmarks of LGBTQ Inclusion
• HRC ACAF Tiers of Recognition

CCR/AB403

• Residential Provider Forums Save the Date
• Residential Provider Forums Response Form
• Invitation Letter to Residential Care Providers

County Funding

• Unspent MHSA Funding County-by-County

Mental Health

• Quarterly Report on Mental Health Services Utilization for Children/Youth in the Child Welfare System July 2017

Education

• Supreme Court Decision on Special Education and IEP's

AB 1299

• Guidance on Mental Health Services for Children Placed Out-of-County
• Medi-Cal: Specialty Mental Health Services: Foster Children
  

EPSDT Realignment

•  2015-16 Alliance recommendations for 2011 Realignment Behavioral Health Sub-Account
•  Sub Account Budget from the 2015-16 Governor's Budget
•  LAO Report Aug. 19, 2011

Continuum of Care Reform - AB 403

• ACL 17-14 Letter of Recommendation from County
• Continuum of Care Reform Update June 2017
• Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP) Plan of Operation & Program Statement Review Tool
• STRTP Orientation Powerpoint
•  STRTP Plan of Operation and Program Statement
•  STRTP Mental Health Program Approval
•  FFA Program Statement and Guide Template
•  Foster Family Agencies Interim Licensing Standards
•  Caseload Trends in Child Welfare Supervised FFAs Jan 1998 to April 2016
•  Caseload Trends in Probation Supervised Group Homes Jan 1998 to April 2016
•  Caseload Trends in Child Welfare Supervised Group Homes Jan 1998 to April 2016
•  AB 1997 - As Amended Aug. 19, 2016
•  San Bernardino County RFP for Foster Family Agency Mental Health Services
•  CWDA AB 403 Support in Concept Letter to Assembly Human Services, April 27, 2015
•  AB 403 (Stone) As Amended on April 21, 2015
•  California Alliance AB 403 Support Letter to Assembly Human Services Subcommittee
•  CCR Legislature report
•  Coalition comments on report
•  CDSS response to Coalition comments
•  AB 403 (Stone) as introduced on 2-19-15
•  AB 403 Fact Sheet
•  AB 403 (Stone) as amended on 3-26-15
•  CDSS Letter to Counties on County-Operated Shelter proposal in CCR Recommendations

Senate Committee on Human Services

• Misuse of Psychotropic Medication in Foster Care: Improving Child Welfare Oversight and
     Outcomes Within Continuum of Care Reform

Child Welfare Federal Finance Reform

• Family First Prevention Services Act of 2016
• NOSAC Support if Amended
• CDSS Letter to House Ways and Means
• California Alliance Letter to Congressional Representatives on the House Ways & Means Committee
• Child Welfare Policy Brief: Are there Too Many Children in Foster Care? April 2016
• Foster Care Caseloads and Federal Child Welfare Policy April 2016
• CWLA Finance Reform Summary
• CWLA Finance Reform
• Lange Bill Language
• Child Welfare Finance Reform Key Principles
• When Child Welfare Works: A Working Paper
• Proposed Continuum of Care Reform Concept Paper
•  Consensus Statement on Group Care for Children

Medi-Cal

•  Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services Waiver 

 Medi-Cal-Specialty Mental Health Services for Children

• DHCS Response to Letter from Young Minds Advocacy Project
• Letter to DHCS from Young Minds Advocacy Project
• Letter to DHCS Regarding Children's Crisis Services
• DHCS “Medi-Cal News Flash: New Restriction on Antipsychotics for Beneficiaries Under 18 Years of Age”
•  Performance Outcomes System Plan 

 AB 3632 Transition - AB 114

• California Alliance White Paper on AB 114 Residential Care Rates
•  CACFS Life After AB 3632 Slide Show
• Transition of Educationally Related Mental Health Services Q & A
•  Guide to Identifying and Selecting High Quality Agencies

Residentially-Based Services Reform

• RBS Year 3 Outcomes Evaluation Report 
• RBS Year 3 Outcomes Evaluation Report Summary
• RBS Qualitative Report Final
• Framework for a New System of Residentially-Based Services in California -Executive Summary

• Framework for a New System of Residentially-Based Services in California - Final Report, March, 2006
• Reconnecting Children, Families and Communities, Inaugural Symposium, December, 2007
• AB 1453 (Soto)
• SB 933 Reexamination of Group Care Status Report August 2002
• SB 933 Reexamination of Group Care in a Family-Based System of Care: Report to the Legislature - June 2001

Partnering for Permanency

• AB 1790 Guides
• Public Child Welfare Agencies Guide
• Behavioral Health Guide
• Private Nonprofit Child Welfare Agency Guide
• Community Mental Health Guide
• Achieving Permanency: Guidelines for Expectations of County Child Welfare Staff
• Permanency A Statewide Approach to Sustainability, California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership
• Declaration of Commitment to Permanency for Older Foster Youth
• CPYP Guidelines for Expectations of County Child Welfare Staff for Achieving Permanency

THP - Plus

• SB 612 Changes to Statutory Language
• SB 612 Changes to Requirements
• California Alliance THP - Plus Presentation
• THP - Plus County Contact List
• County Allocations
• THP Plus Letter of Support to Governor Schwarzenegger
• Proposed Model for Therapeutic Foster Care Services in California

PAARP

• Private Adoption Agency Reimbursement Program Invoicing (All County Letter May 1, 2017)
• Private Adoption Agency Reimbursement Program (PAARP), Budget Item, Passed 2007
• Amended 2007 Statute for PAARP
• Conference Committee Alert
• Letter of Support
• Facts on the PAARP
• The Cost to the State of California: Adoption vs. Foster Care
• Outcomes of Youth who Emancipated from Foster Care Without Being Adopted