California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 7.5 - Family Violence Option: Domestic Violence and Welfare

• Section 11495.
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to adopt a family violence provision by enacting the federal option concerning victims of...
• Section 11495.1.
  (a) The department shall convene a task force including, but not limited to, district attorney domestic violence units, county departments of social services, the County Welfare...
• Section 11495.12.
  For purposes of this article, until regulations are adopted pursuant to Section 11495.1, the term “abuse” means battering or subjecting a victim to extreme cruelty...
• Section 11495.15.
  A county may waive a program requirement for a recipient who has been identified as a past or present victim of abuse when it has...
• Section 11495.16.
  All CalWORKs applicants and recipients shall be informed verbally and in writing, and to the extent required by law, in the language understood by the...
• Section 11495.17.
  (a) During the annual budget process, the department shall update the Legislature at hearings regarding the number of CalWORKs welfare-to-work recipients, aggregated by county, who have...
• Section 11495.25.
  Sworn statements by a victim of past or present abuse shall be sufficient to establish abuse unless the agency documents in writing an independent, reasonable...
• Section 11495.40.
  The department shall adopt a model curriculum for domestic violence and sexual abuse prevention training, based on the statewide protocol, in consultation with the task...

Last modified: October 22, 2018