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CA Welf & Inst Code § 18975.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions|Section 18975.2.

18975.2.  It is the intention of the Legislature that primary prevention training for all children in state-funded center based preschools and public schools, kindergarten through grade 12 be encouraged by the funding of appropriate agencies to provide the training.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 2. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18975.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions|Section 18975.3.

18975.3.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18975.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions|Section 18975.4.

18975.4.  “Department” means the State Department of Social Services.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18975.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions|Section 18975.5.

18975.5.  “Office” means the Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18975.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions|Section 18975.6.

18975.6.  “Child abuse” means those acts defined in Section 11165 of the Penal Code.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18975.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions|Section 18975.7.

18975.7.  A “primary prevention program” means a training and educational program for children, which is directed toward all of the following:(a) Preventing the occurrence of child abuse, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, child neglect, and child abduction.(b) Reducing the general vulnerability of children, including coordination with and training for parents and school staff.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1072, Sec. 1.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18975.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions|Section 18975.8.

18975.8.  “Prevention training center” means a center defined in Article 3 (commencing with Section 18977).(Added by renumbering Section 18975.9 by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 5. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18975.9 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions|Section 18975.9.

18975.9.  “Center based preschools” means state subsidized centers in which children of preschool age are provided services under the child development programs identified in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision (h) of Section 8208 of the Education Code and the State Preschool Program identified in subdivision (dd) of Section 8208 of the Education Code.(Added by renumbering Section 18975.10 by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 6. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18976 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 2 - Primary Prevention Programs|Section 18976.

18976.  A primary prevention program shall include all of the following:(a) Parent, teacher, and children’s workshops which provide all of the following:(1) Information, provided in a clear, age-appropriate, nonthreatening manner, delineating the problem and the range of possible solutions.(2) Workshops which are culturally and linguistically appropriate to the population served and which are staffed by people with cultural and linguistic backgrounds representing the diversity of the population in the service area.(3) Workshops which are appropriate to the geographic area served.(4) Workshops which are designed to help counteract common stereotypes about victims and offenders.(b) Parent and school staff workshops presented prior to the presentation of children’s workshops, which include information and training concerning all of the following:(1) Physical and behavioral indicators of abuse.(2)  Postworkshop session techniques.(3) Community resources.(4) Rights and responsibilities regarding reporting.(5) School district procedures to facilitate reporting and apprise supervisors and administrators of reports.(6) Caring for a child’s needs after a report is made.(c) Children’s workshops shall contain information and training concerning all of the following:(1) The right of every child to live free of abuse.(2) How to disclose incidents of abuse.(3) The availability of support resources and how to obtain help.(4) Child safety training and age-appropriate self-defense techniques.(5) A period for postworkshop sessions in a school setting which maximizes the child’s privacy and sense of safety and provide a period of time following each child’s workshop, or a reasonable time thereafter, for any child who on a voluntary basis may want to individually talk with classroom presenters. Reports and referrals to appropriate child protective services agencies shall be made pursuant to state law. These sessions shall not provide any therapy or other forms of treatment.(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 920, Sec. 1. Effective September 22, 1987.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18976.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 2 - Primary Prevention Programs|Section 18976.1.

18976.1.  For the purposes of program effectiveness, it is the intent of the Legislature that children’s workshops, in general, be delivered to classroom-size, or smaller, groups of children. It is further the intent of the Legislature that, in general, when services are delivered to a particular school, they be delivered throughout the school as a whole, with the exception that services may be delivered to kindergarten or special education classes, without necessarily delivering services to the entire school.(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 7. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18976.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 2 - Primary Prevention Programs|Section 18976.5.

18976.5.  Parents shall be given notice of, and may refuse to have their children participate in, a primary prevention program.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 8. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18977 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 3 - Prevention Training Centers|Section 18977.

18977.  A prevention training center shall provide information and services to primary prevention programs, the office, and interested applicants for grants, as follows:(a) Act as a clearinghouse to provide information on state-of-the-art prevention curricula which meet the requirements of this chapter.(b) Assist in selecting a prevention program model, or a combination of program models, which will meet the needs of their communities.(c) Design and administer training sessions to develop or expand local primary prevention programs.(d) Provide technical assistance to local programs, including, but not limited to, all of the following: administration, management, evaluation, program development, development of multicultural staffing, and community education.(e) Provide ongoing program development and in-service training to meet all of the following:(1) The special needs of children, including, but not limited to, the needs of disabled and high-risk children.(2) The geographic, cultural, and linguistic needs of the diverse communities of the state.(f) Conduct an outreach program to inform communities of the existence of funds to conduct primary prevention programs.(g) To act in an advisory capacity to the office to provide information for all of the following:(1) The development of a standard request for proposal as described in Section 18978.2.(2) Suggestions of appropriate agencies to receive the request for proposal. (3) The determination of, if requested, a current needs assessment for the number of projects needed to serve a county.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.

18978.  The office shall select and award grants by January 1, 1985, to two private, nonprofit prevention training centers, one located in, and serving northern California, and one located in, and serving southern California. The dividing line for the purposes of this act shall be the county boundary lines between Monterey, Kings, Tulare, and Inyo Counties to the north, and San Luis Obispo, Kern, and San Bernardino Counties to the south.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.1.

18978.1.  The office shall select the two training centers which can fulfill the requirement of Section 18977, and which meet the following requirements:(a) For the northern California training center, the grant shall be awarded to the applicant which has demonstrated experience and expertise in administering a prevention training center and which has demonstrated the following:(1) Provided training and ongoing technical assistance for the greatest number of primary prevention programs as defined in Section 18975.7 in school districts and preschools.(2) Trained and employed the greatest number of trainers with experience in providing primary prevention programs.(3) Employed trainers representing the cultural and geographical diversity of the service area.(b) For the southern California training center the grant shall be awarded to the applicant which demonstrates the following:(1) Experience in child abuse prevention training.(2) Capacity for training of primary child abuse prevention programs as defined in Section 18976.(3) Broad community support.(4) Capability for developing staffing which represents the cultural diversity of their service area and a plan for developing this staff.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 9. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.2.

18978.2.  The office shall distribute a standard request for proposal and shall select the primary prevention program for each service area through a competitive bidding process. Grants for programs in each county shall be determined on a proportional basis according to the number of children in center based preschools and in the schools, kindergarten through 12th grade, except that allocations for primary prevention programs in any one county shall not be less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000).The proposals shall include a plan by the applicant as to how its program will serve children in the service area, including all of the following information:(a) How many children will be served each year.(b) How each school in the service area is to be served so that children receive age-appropriate training in preschool, once during kindergarten, and at least three times during a child’s school career in grades 1 through 12. Any plan proposing to deliver services in a manner other than that contained in Section 18976.1 shall provide justification for the necessity to use an alternate service delivery method. The office shall consider the alternate proposed delivery method in the review of proposals.(c) How multicultural staffing will be developed, including plans for the hiring and training of staff.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 10. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.3.

18978.3.  In awarding grants for primary prevention programs, the office:(a) May, in order to achieve economies of scale, designate service areas for grants that include more than one county. Should acceptable applicants from more than one county in such a multicounty service area submit proposals, the office may separate the area into as many counties for service delivery as is appropriate. The office may also designate more than one service area in large counties and counties with large school-age populations.(b) Shall award grants only to those qualified applicants set forth below and in the following order of priority:(1) Private, nonprofit, and public primary prevention programs with experience in the county to be served that meet the requirements of Sections 18975.7 and 18976 by October 1, 1984.(2) Private, nonprofit, community organizations based in the county to be served.(3) Public institutions based in counties which do not have qualified organizations as defined in paragraphs (1) and (2).(4) Private, nonprofit community organizations in adjacent counties.(5) Public institutions based in adjacent counties.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 11. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.4.

18978.4.  (a) Requests for proposals shall be sent out by March 1, 1985.(b) The office shall so conduct its primary prevention program selection process that the selected programs are prepared to provide required training during the 1985–1986 school year. Requests for proposals shall be sent out as soon as possible, and at least 30 calendar days shall be allowed for submission of proposals for the competitive bidding.(c) In accordance with Section 18979, no selected primary prevention program may commence operations prior to July 1, 1985.(d) In order to ensure that primary prevention programs can provide training beginning in the 1985–86 school year, the office shall give priority in the processing of applications, execution of grants, and issuance of funds to those applicants who apply and qualify under paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 18978.3.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 134, Sec. 12. Effective July 1, 1985.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.5.

18978.5.  The office shall do all of the following:(a) Prepare and execute grants with the successful applicants for the prevention training centers and primary prevention programs.(b) Monitor and evaluate primary prevention programs and prevention training centers.(c) Notify any local child abuse prevention council when a primary prevention program grant award has been made in its service area.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.6.

18978.6.  The office shall administer this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.7.

18978.7.  The director shall be authorized to the extent necessary to adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the provisions of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18978.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 4 - The Office of Child Abuse Prevention|Section 18978.8.

18978.8.  The director shall, within 60 days of the operative date of this chapter, adopt regulations implementing the provisions of this chapter as emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code. For the purposes of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the adoption of the regulations shall be deemed to be an emergency and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, or general welfare.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1638, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 1984.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18979 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12 - The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984|ARTICLE 5 - Fiscal Provisions|Section 18979.

18979.  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, eleven million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($11,250,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the office for the purposes of this chapter, to be allocated as follows:(a) Eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($850,000) for the establishment of prevention training centers and for administrative costs of the department, to be allocated for the period commencing January 1, 1985, and ending June 30, 1985, as follows:(1) Four hundred eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($487,500) for startup and operating of the prevention training centers, to be allocated as follows:(A) Two hundred eighteen thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($218,750) for the northern California prevention training center.(B) Two hundred sixty-eight thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($268,750) for the southern California prevention training center.(2) Three hundred sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($362,500) for administrative costs of the department.(3) Any unexpended allocations pursuant to this subdivision for the 1984–85 fiscal year shall be carried forward for the 1985–86 fiscal year.(b) Ten million four hundred thousand dollars ($10,400,000) for the continuation of the prevention training centers, primary prevention programs, and administrative costs to be allocated for the 1985–86 fiscal year, as follows:(1) Nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000) for the operating costs of primary prevention programs. Funding for the primary prevention programs shall be maintained at a level at least equal to the amount allocated in the Budget Act of 1987, at least until June 30, 1989, or until the State Department of Social Services completes the evaluation of this program required by Section 18978.5, whichever occurs later.(2) Seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) for the operating costs of the prevention training centers, to be allocated as follows:(A) Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the northern California prevention training center.(B) Four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for the southern California prevention training center.(3) Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for administrative costs of the department.(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1310, Sec. 3.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18980 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12.5 - Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council Act|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 18980.

18980.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council Act.(Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 603, Sec. 1. Effective September 21, 1989.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18981 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12.5 - Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council Act|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 18981.

18981.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Child abuse is one of the most tragic social and criminal justice issues of our times.(b) Victims of child abuse and their families face a complex intervention system involving many professionals and agencies.(c) Coordination by child protection agencies and personnel improves the response to a victim and his or her family.(d) The prevention of child abuse requires the involvement of the entire community.(Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 603, Sec. 1. Effective September 21, 1989.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 18981.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES|PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 12.5 - Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council Act|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 18981.1.

18981.1.  It is the intention of the Legislature to fund child abuse prevention coordinating councils in each county.(Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 603, Sec. 1. Effective September 21, 1989.)