CHAPTER 14.1. California Families and Children Home Visit Program [18994. - 18994.9.]
Chapter 14.1 added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 329, Sec. 41.
§§ 18994–18994.9 · 15 sections
- § 18994 (a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Families and Children Home Visit Program. (b) The department shall implement this chapter…
- § 18994.1 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) About 26 percent of California’s children under the age of 18 years live in families with incomes…
- § 18994.2 (a) “At risk” means families who experience multiple stress factors, and who are more likely than the general population to have adverse health, social, and…
- § 18994.3 (a) The Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services shall be responsible for award of implementation grants and continued…
- § 18994.4 (a) Each county that chooses to participate in the California Families and Children Home Visit Program shall develop and submit to the Office of Child Abuse…
- § 18994.5 County programs are eligible for continued funding following an implementation assessment if both of the following are true: (a) The assessment results in a…
- § 18994.55 A grant for operation of a program under this chapter may be awarded to a county that has demonstrated readiness to begin operation of a program or to expand…
- § 18994.6 A planning grant may be awarded under this chapter to a county that has demonstrated a need to implement a program, but which is not ready to implement the…
- § 18994.61 Each grantee shall be required to provide matching funds with one dollar ($1) for every two dollars ($2) awarded. The match may be either in cash or through…
- § 18994.65 (a) Research and program evaluation shall provide information for the development and implementation of this chapter. The Office of Child Abuse Prevention…
- § 18994.7 The Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall provide administrative oversight for the California Families and Children Home Visit Program.
- § 18994.72 (a) Of the funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 1998 for purposes of this chapter, not less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) shall be used…
- § 18994.74 Of the funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter, not more than 7.5 percent shall be used for state support staff to facilitate the Office of Child Abuse…
- § 18994.8 It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with other relevant state officials, seek and use any federal…
- § 18994.9 (a) There is hereby established the California Families and Children Home Visit Program Task Force, which shall be convened by the Office of Child Abuse…