California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 4 - Services and Supports for Persons Living in the Community

  • Section 4685.
    (a) Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature finds and declares that children with developmental disabilities most often have greater opportunities for educational and social...
  • Section 4685.1.
    (a) When a minor child requires a living arrangement outside of the family home, as determined in the individual program plan developed pursuant to Section 4646...
  • Section 4685.7.
    (a) Contingent upon approval of a federal waiver, the Self-Directed Services Program (SDS Program) is hereby established and shall be available in every regional center catchment...
  • Section 4685.8.
    (a) The department shall implement a statewide Self-Determination Program. The Self-Determination Program shall be available in every regional center catchment area to provide participants and their...
  • Section 4686.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, an in-home respite worker who is not a licensed health care professional but who...
  • Section 4686.2.
    (a) Effective July 1, 2009, notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, any vendor who provides applied behavioral analysis (ABA) services, or...
  • Section 4686.3.
    The department shall adopt emergency regulations to address the use of paraprofessionals in group practice provider behavioral intervention services and establish a rate. The regulations...
  • Section 4686.31.
    (a) Effective July 1, 2011, notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, any vendor who provides services as specified in paragraph (4) shall submit...
  • Section 4687.
    Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature recognizes the rights of persons with disabilities to have relationships, marry, be a part of a family,...
  • Section 4688.
    (a) Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature places a high priority on providing opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities to be integrated into the...
  • Section 4688.05.
    Regional centers shall provide independent living skills services to an adult consumer, consistent with his or her individual program plan, that provide the consumer with...
  • Section 4688.1.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, vendors of behavior management, activity center, and adult development center day programs, social recreation...
  • Section 4688.2.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, vendors of behavior management, activity center, and adult development center adult day programs, community...
  • Section 4688.21.
    (a) The Legislature places a high priority on opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to choose and customize day services to meet their individualized needs; have...
  • Section 4688.3.
    (a) The State Department of Health Care Services and the department shall jointly seek a federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) approved 1915(i) state...
  • Section 4688.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department may approve a proposal or proposals by Golden Gate Regional Center, Regional Center of...
  • Section 4688.6.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department may receive and approve a proposal or proposals by any regional center to provide...
  • Section 4689.
    Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature places a high priority on providing opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, regardless of the degree of...
  • Section 4689.05.
    (a) A regional center shall not purchase supportive services, as defined in Section 12300, for a consumer who meets the criteria to receive, but declines to...
  • Section 4689.1.
    (a) The Legislature declares that it places a high priority on providing opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to live with families approved by family home...
  • Section 4689.2.
    (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to require the filing of fingerprints of those individuals whose contact with consumers receiving...
  • Section 4689.3.
    (a) A family home agency shall not place an adult with developmental disabilities in a family home until the family home agency has received a criminal...
  • Section 4689.4.
    The State Department of Developmental Services may deny an application for vendorization or terminate vendorization as a family home agency or family home upon the...
  • Section 4689.5.
    (a) Proceeding for the termination, or denial of vendorization as a family home agency or family home pursuant to Section 4689.4 shall be conducted in accordance...
  • Section 4689.6.
    (a) The State Department of Developmental Services may prohibit a vendor from employing, or continuing the employment of, or allowing in a family home, or allowing...
  • Section 4689.7.
    (a) For the 1998–99 fiscal year, levels of payment for supported living service providers that are vendored pursuant to Section 4689 shall be increased based on...
  • Section 4689.8.
    Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2008:(a) No regional center may pay an existing supported living service provider, for services where rates are...

Last modified: October 22, 2018