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2001 Budget Analysis: Franchise Tax Board (1730)
Chapter 478, Statutes of 1999 (AB 196, Kuehl) and Chapter 480, Statutes of 1999 (SB 542, Burton), assigned a number of additional child
support collection responsibilities to the board, as summarized in Figure 1, and required the board to phase these in by December 31, 2002. At the time the legislation was enacted, the board
had not determined the nature of the relationship between arrearage collection and the CCSAS system. The board, therefore, decided to develop CAMP as a separate system to meet the
requirements and time frames of the new state legislation. Ultimately, however, the state's collection function will need to be included in the CCSAS in order to meet federal certification
requirements for a statewide automation system.

Figure 1

Franchise Tax Board Responsibilities Under 
 New Child Support Collection System

Handle
 all cases over $100 which are more than 60 days in arrears. This is
 expected to double the department's caseload to approximately
 one million cases.

Design
 and implement a computerized database to centralize information regarding
 each case.

Establish
 a customer information center or network to respond to debtor inquires and
 disputes.

Contract
 with third parties, where necessary, to locate debtors and debtor assets.

Give
 priority to collection of child support debt. For example, if a debtor has
 both a child support delinquency and a personal income tax delinquency,
 the board is to collect the child support delinquency first.

Board Seeks Federal Funding for CAMP Development. In July 2000, the board submitted a request to ACF for an additional $3.7 million in federal funds for CAMP. This request also
indicated a need for an additional $1.8 million of state funds in the budget year. The board reported to ACF that the total cost for CAMP was estimated to be $59 million.
 In October 2000, ACF denied all federal funds requested by the board for CAMP. The ACF's letter stated "we continue to urge California to concentrate its system development efforts on
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Guide to criminal court in California
This guide is an introduction to the criminal court system. It covers:
An overview of the criminal court process
How to clean a criminal record (expungement)
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When someone is charged with a crime, their case is handled in criminal court
Only the government — not another person or private agency — can file criminal charges against someone. Generally, the District Attorney’s Office represents the state and files the charges. They are called the prosecution.
California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities
Ultimately, a large share of families who are the subject of a maltreatment allegation are not found to have mistreated their children. As shown in Figure 16, while there are around half a million California children who are the subjects of allegations in any given year, only around 15 percent of allegations are substantiated, and around 6 percent result in foster care entry, with the remainder of allegations determined to be unfounded, evaluated out, or inconclusive. Some portion of allegations that do not result in foster placement are referred to family strengthening services (which could be court‑mandated FM, voluntary FM, or provided by community organizations as part of a county’s DR program—as described previously). 

State Law Does Not Require Most Mandated Reporters to Receive Specific Training. CANRA requires employers of mandated reporters to inform their employees of their legal responsibilities to report suspected or known maltreatment. However, the law does not require most mandated reporters to complete any training related to these responsibilities (although the law does “strongly encourage” employers to provide such training). One notable exception is for teachers and other school employees: the Education Code (Section 44691) specifies that school employers shall annually train their employees regarding mandated reporting duties. While the required training must be in line with guidance provided by the California Department of Education and DSS’s Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP), there is not a specific training curriculum that school employers must use. OCAP has developed standard training modules (including a general training as well as modules tailored for teachers, child care providers, social workers, and more), which are available online and meet all state requirements. However, most school employers (around 60 percent of school districts) use a training other than the state‑developed standard modules. 
Additionally, for certain professions, training around recognizing child maltreatment and understanding mandated reporting responsibilities is a part of professional education and development. For example, social workers learn about reporting responsibilities and protocols as part of their foundational training (described above in Front–End Policies Impacting Child Welfare System Involvement).
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as well as certain others such as high-risk sex offenders. The remaining
people are released from prison to the supervision of county probation
officers—referred to as Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS).
People generally remain on PRCS for a maximum of two years. The 2011
realignment shifted a portion of annual state sales tax revenue—which is
expected to be over $2 billion in 2024‑25—to counties to support the
PRCS population as well as other adult criminal justice populations that
were realigned in 2011. In the first three quarters of 2023 (the most
recent data available), the average quarterly PRCS population was
36,200.
Proposition 57 (2016) Caused Temporary Increases in PRCS
Population. When a policy change causes people to be
released from prison earlier than otherwise, it causes a temporary
increase in the PRCS and parole populations. This temporary increase is
not the product of new people being placed on PRCS or parole, but rather
the result of people being released to PRCS and parole ahead of
schedule. Various changes that the California Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation (CDCR)—which operates state prisons—has made over the
years to implement Proposition 57 have caused temporary increases in the
PRCS population. These temporary increases have been caused in the
following two ways:

Increased Credit
Earning. Proposition 57 expanded the authority of CDCR to
reduce people’s sentences through credits. People earn credits through
maintaining good behavior and participating in rehabilitation programs.
Accordingly, each time CDCR has changed credit earning in ways that
result in people being released to PRCS early, there has been a
temporary increase in the PRCS population.
Expansion of Parole
Consideration. Proposition 57 made people not convicted of
violent crimes eligible to be considered by the Board of Parole Hearings
for release from prison earlier than otherwise. The initial
implementation of this process, as well as expansions to it over the
years, have also caused temporary increases in the PRCS
population.
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If a person with a developmental disability receives services from or through a Regional Center, they or their loved ones can ask for additional services in their Individual Program Plan (IPP) to help the person make decisions. The IPP should also include information on the person’s preferences. 
Supported Living Services
Individuals can also receive additional supports through Supported Living Services (SLS). SLS can be part of a person’s Individual Program Plan, provided by a specialized agency, or both to help the individual manage their life. 
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Supported decision making is an individualized process of supporting and accommodating an adult with a disability so that they can make life decisions on their own. The person with a severe mental illness chooses the people who support them, including family, friends, staff, and professionals. The supporters help the person understand, consider, and communicate decisions. Supporters also give the person the ability to make their own informed decisions.
Services and Community-based Organizations
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California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities
In particular, research has found that youth experiencing maltreatment are less likely to graduate high school, less likely to attend college or university and to graduate, more likely to experience homelessness, more likely to be incarcerated, and more likely to be referred to substance use disorder treatment. In addition, research has found these outcomes are worse for foster youth compared to other youth experiencing poverty who did not experience foster care. 
Child Welfare System Intervention May Be Necessary for Child Safety, but Also May Result in Additional Trauma. Families who come to the attention of the child welfare system often are experiencing significant challenges, such as substance use disorder or domestic violence, which can cause trauma to the children and family. Given the shorter‑ and longer‑term negative impacts of experiencing trauma and maltreatment, child welfare system intervention may be necessary to help keep children safe within these potentially harmful situations. At the same time, involvement with the child welfare system may result in additional trauma, particularly when a child is removed from their parent(s)/caregiver(s). In spite of the trauma that may result from foster placement, removals nonetheless are necessary to protect children in some situations. For example, a child experiencing repeated physical abuse would experience continued harm if left in their situation. While intervention may introduce additional or different trauma, it may be less than if there were no intervention. How best to ensure child safety in a way that minimizes and mitigates trauma and ideally keeps the child with their parent(s)/caregiver(s) is a core tension inherent to the child welfare system. 
California Increasingly Has Focused on Trauma‑Informed Care and Prevention. Many of California’s policies and recent budget augmentations in the child welfare system focus on preventing maltreatment and providing trauma‑informed care when maltreatment has occurred. In addition, California’s policies (along with federal policies) increasingly have focused more on prevention services. When removals are necessary, policies and funding also have focused on lessening the trauma of child welfare system involvement by aiming to increase foster placements with relatives (as opposed to unrelated resource families or congregate care). 
Poverty and Risk Factors for Maltreatment
The 2024-25 Budget: Child Support
Current Support and Past-Due Payments for Former CalWORKs Families Are Directed to Families First. Once a family exits CalWORKs (referred to as a former CalWORKs family), they begin to receive the full amount of current support payments. Additionally, any payments towards past-due amounts are directed first to families to pay off any family-owed debt. Past-due CalWORKs recoupment is paid last (although this portion of past-due payments soon will be passed through to families as well, as described in the next section).
Figure 2 illustrates how current support and past-due payments are directed to the family or government, depending on whether the family is currently receiving, or has ever received, CalWORKs cash aid.

Implementation of New State Passthrough Policy
Recent Policy Change Will Result in Full Arrears Passed Through to Former CalWORKs Families. In the case of former CalWORKs families, the federal government allows the state to pass through to families the permanently assigned arrears—those payments that otherwise would be retained by the government to cover past-due CalWORKs recoupment. (This is the portion of the monthly child support payment illustrated in Figure 2 as part 3 under the “Former CalWORKs Families” column.) In these former CalWORKs cases, the federal government does not require states to backfill the federal recoupment share. Chapter 573 of 2022 (AB 207, Committee on Budget) authorizes DCSS to pass through government-owed arrears to families rather than recouping the funds. The intention of passing these collections through to former CalWORKs families is to boost the income of these often low-income families.
DCSS Working to Implement Passthrough to Formerly Assisted Families in Current Year. In line with Chapter 573, DCSS currently is completing the required payment system automation updates and intends to begin implementing the passthrough of arrears to former CalWORKs families in May 2024.
Passing Through Funds to Former CalWORKs Families Is Estimated to Reduce General Fund Revenues by Around $90 Million Annually. As shown in Figure 3, actual assistance collections received in 2022-23 totaled $407.1 million.
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Check to see if the person has commercial health insurance. If so, contact the health plan or insurer and ask about support and services that are available through the person’s plan. 
County Behavioral Health Agency
County behavioral health agencies offer many services, from counseling, psychiatrists, psychologists, or therapists, to full service partnerships, rehabilitative mental health services, peer support services, intensive case management, crisis services, residential care, substance disorder treatment, assertive community treatment, and supportive housing. County behavioral health agencies are required to provide services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who qualify for specialty mental health and substance use disorder services. County behavioral health agencies may also provide services to a broader population, depending on local funding and eligibility criteria, without a court order.
Full-service partnerships
A full-service partnership is designed for a person with a severe mental illness who would benefit from an intensive service program. Full-service partnerships are collaborative relationships between the county and the person, and when appropriate the person’s family, through which the county plans for and provides the full spectrum of community services.  A full-service partnership can assist a person who is homeless, involved with the justice system, or uses crisis psychiatric care frequently. 
Assertive Community Treatment
Assertive community treatment is a form of mental health care provided in a community setting to help a person become independent and integrate into the community as they recover.
Advance Health Care Directive or Psychiatric Advance Directive
Find out if the person has an advance health care directive or psychiatric advance directive, allowing someone else to make healthcare decisions for them when they cannot. 
Supported Decision Making
Supported decision making is an individualized process of supporting and accommodating an adult with a disability so that they can make life decisions on their own. The person with a severe mental illness chooses the people who support them, including family, friends, staff, and professionals. The supporters help the person understand, consider, and communicate decisions. Supporters also give the person the ability to make their own informed decisions.
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California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities
If this category grows to comprise a proportionally larger share of the total child welfare system‑involved population, having more disaggregated information could be important to effectively track racial/ethnic disproportionalities and disparities. 

Monitor Implementation of Child Welfare System Prevention Services. As discussed previously in this report, the current array of and access to child welfare prevention services, including culturally relevant programs, is uneven across counties. (While families across the state also may experience differences in access to broader programs outside the child welfare system, such as behavioral health services, this option focuses on those services being implemented as part of current child welfare system efforts.) Considering that the state and counties remain in the early stages of implementing comprehensive prevention services under FFPSA, assessing what additional funding and capacity building may be needed—and how best to target those resources—will require ongoing monitoring. As implementation progresses, we suggest that the Legislature may wish to continually assess aspects such as: 

As counties implement their comprehensive prevention plans, how is DSS evaluating the effectiveness of new prevention services? How is the overall landscape of prevention services across the state changing? What services are provided where, and by whom? What gaps remain, and what additional services could support the needs of disproportionately impacted communities and families? 
Does the Legislature want to consider a certain minimum program level statewide? Requiring all counties to provide certain prevention services could help to mitigate trauma and reduce child maltreatment. 
To what extent are prevention services dollars being used to support culturally relevant programs? 

Set Clear Targets for Reducing Child Welfare System Disproportionalities and Disparities. Certainly, reducing the disproportionalities and disparities experienced by low‑income, Black, and Native American families across California’s child welfare system will take time. To help ensure ongoing accountability and continued progress, we suggest the Legislature could consider working with DSS—in consultation with stakeholders—to determine specific targets for reducing these disproportionalities and disparities over time. For example, the Department of Health Care Services as part of its 2022 Comprehensive Quality Strategy committed to reducing five key areas of health disparities by 50 percent by 2025.