SECTIONS 18978-18978.8 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 18978-18978.8

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

18978.6. The office shall administer this chapter.

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.

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.