California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 14.1 - California Families and Children Home Visit Program

• Section 18994.
  (a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Families and Children Home Visit Program.(b) The department shall implement this chapter only to...
• Section 18994.1.
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) About 26 percent of California’s children under the age of 18 years live in families with incomes...
• Section 18994.2.
  (a) “At risk” means families who experience multiple stress factors, and who are more likely than the general population to have adverse health, social, and economic...
• Section 18994.3.
  (a) The Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services shall be responsible for award of implementation grants and continued operation of...
• Section 18994.4.
  (a) Each county that chooses to participate in the California Families and Children Home Visit Program shall develop and submit to the Office of Child Abuse...
• Section 18994.5.
  County programs are eligible for continued funding following an implementation assessment if both of the following are true:(a) The assessment results in a determination that the...
• Section 18994.55.
  A grant for operation of a program under this chapter may be awarded to a county that has demonstrated readiness to begin operation of a...
• Section 18994.6.
  A planning grant may be awarded under this chapter to a county that has demonstrated a need to implement a program, but which is not...
• Section 18994.61.
  Each grantee shall be required to provide matching funds with one dollar ($1) for every two dollars ($2) awarded. The match may be either in...
• Section 18994.65.
  (a) Research and program evaluation shall provide information for the development and implementation of this chapter. The Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall incorporate new research...
• Section 18994.7.
  The Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall provide administrative oversight for the California Families and Children Home Visit Program.(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 329, Sec....
• Section 18994.72.
  (a) Of the funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 1998 for purposes of this chapter, not less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) shall...
• Section 18994.74.
  Of the funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter, not more than 7.5 percent shall be used for state support staff to facilitate the Office...
• Section 18994.8.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with other relevant state officials, seek and use any...
• Section 18994.9.
  (a) There is hereby established the California Families and Children Home Visit Program Task Force, which shall be convened by the Office of Child Abuse Prevention.(b) The...

Last modified: October 22, 2018