ARTICLE 9. Evaluation of CalWORKs Program Implementation
Article 9 added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 270, Sec. 158.
§§ 11520–11523.7 · 13 sections
- § 11520 The State Department of Social Services shall ensure that a comprehensive, independent statewide evaluation of the CalWORKs program is undertaken and that…
- § 11520.3 The department shall develop a research design to ensure a thorough evaluation of the direct and indirect effects of the CalWORKs program. Effects shall…
- § 11520.5 The statewide evaluation shall be conducted by an independent evaluator or evaluators. It shall represent a clear delineation of the research questions and…
- § 11520.7 The department shall ensure that county demonstration projects and other innovative county approaches to CalWORKs program implementation are independently and…
- § 11521.3 Evaluation of CalWORKs program implementation conducted or commissioned by the department shall, to the extent practical, use or build upon existing welfare…
- § 11521.5 The department shall have access and authority to obtain for tracking, monitoring, research and evaluation purposes to data collected by counties on recipients…
- § 11522 The department, in conjunction with participating representatives of counties and the Legislature, shall develop approaches to improving data collection and…
- § 11523 (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the CalWORKs Outcomes and Accountability Review Act of 2017. (b) The State Department of Social Services…
- § 11523.1 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to make the CalWORKs program the most effective family…
- § 11523.4 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Legislature has taken numerous steps in recent years to improve the CalWORKs program for…
- § 11523.5 (a) The State Department of Social Services shall convene and facilitate a Cal-OAR implementation steering committee (steering committee) no later than…
- § 11523.6 (a) Subject to an appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, the State Department of Social Services shall contract for the development…
- § 11523.7 Payments, as determined by the State Department of Social Services, made to individuals serving either as individual participants or as a participant on an…