SECTIONS 18987-18987.5 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 18987-18987.5

18987. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law related to
the funding and delivery of state programs and services specified in
this section, designated counties, if they comply with the provisions
of this chapter, shall be authorized to transfer, to the extent
possible, into a county child and family services fund, for the
duration of the pilot program established by this chapter, some or
all funds for the following services for children and families:
(1) Adoption services.
(2) Child abuse prevention services.
(3) Child welfare services.
(4) Delinquency prevention services.
(5) Drug and alcohol services.
(6) Eligibility determination.
(7) Employment and training services.
(8) Foster care services.
(9) Health services.
(10) Juvenile facilities.
(11) Mental health services.
(12) Probation services.
(13) Housing.
(14) Youth development services.
(15) All other appropriately identified and targeted services for
children and families.
(b) Local education agencies, cities, or private, nonprofit
agencies may also allocate funds to the county child and family
services fund for recreation, juvenile justice, or other services
provided to children and families.
(c) The county child and family services fund shall be used to
fund comprehensive, integrated services for high-risk, children and
families with multiple needs in alternative and innovative ways, as
detailed in county strategic plans. The fund may be used to provide
services in a designated geographical area within the county or to a
targeted population.

18987.05. (a) Not later than September 30, 1995, the Governor, or
the Governor's designee shall select up to six counties on the basis
of highest scores earned through the 1994 request for proposal
process from among all of the eligible counties that apply to
participate in the program.
(b) A county shall be eligible for participation only if all of
the following apply:
(1) The county has a demonstrated record of successful interagency
collaboration and service integration.
(2) The county has submitted a strategic plan that complies with
the requirements of Section 18987.3.
(3) The county's strategic plan and pilot project include one or
more local education agencies.
(c) At least one of the counties selected for the pilot program
shall be a rural county, if at least one rural county applies and
complies with this chapter.

18987.1. Counties selected to participate may implement the program
on January 1, 1995, July 1, 1995, or January 1, 1996.

18987.15. The California Health and Human Services Agency shall be
responsible for all of the following:
(a) Facilitating any state interagency coordination necessary for
the implementation of a participating county's plan.
(b) Coordinating technical assistance to the counties
participating in the pilot program.
(c) Applying to the federal government, where appropriate and
feasible, for federal waivers necessary to carry out or enhance
projects under the pilot program.
(d) Monitoring county compliance with the requirements of this
chapter.
(e) Seeking nonstate resources to conduct county evaluations
pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 18987.3.
(f) Establishing performance outcomes for measuring the success of
the state level implementation of the pilot program.

18987.16. (a) The Legislature finds that an evaluation is both
desirable and necessary to assess the effectiveness of the pilot
program provided for in this chapter.
(b) Therefore, the California Health and Human Services Agency
shall cause an evaluation of the pilot program to be conducted by an
independent organization. This evaluation shall consist of a baseline
and a final report. The independent evaluator shall review the
updated strategic plans submitted by the counties pursuant to
subdivision (f) of Section 18987.2 and, on or before June 30, 2001,
shall compile a baseline report summarizing the performance outcomes
and indicators chosen by each of the six participating counties. This
report shall also list the performance outcomes against which state
performance in the pilot program shall be evaluated. A final
evaluation of the pilot program shall be submitted to the Governor
and the Legislature on June 30, 2003. This evaluation shall include
an analysis of county performance outcomes as compared to baseline
performance, an analysis of state performance outcomes in
implementing the pilot program, and a discussion of whether these
state actions were associated with improved outcomes at the local
level as reported in the county evaluations submitted pursuant to
subdivision (c) of Section 18987.36. The California Health and Human
Services Agency shall seek the advice and input of the Legislature on
the framework of the evaluation.

18987.17. (a) Pursuant to this chapter, the California Health and
Human Services Agency or the Secretary of the Youth and Adult
Correctional Agency, as appropriate, may approve a request submitted
by a county selected pursuant to Section 18987.05, to implement an
alternative method for meeting specific state statutory requirements
in the county's strategic plan. The secretary of the approving agency
shall only approve a request when the coordinating council of the
requesting county has certified, and the secretary has determined,
that all of the following criteria have been met:
(1) The council has developed a specific alternative method for
achieving the intent of the statute in question.
(2) The council's proposed alternative is consistent with this
chapter and the intent of the statutory requirements governing the
programs proposed for integration in the county's strategic plan.
(3) Approval of the request is essential to achieve one or more
objectives of the strategic plan.
(4) The objective of the strategic plan cannot be achieved solely
through waiver of regulation.
(b) A request subject to this section may not be approved for a
period that exceeds the length of the pilot program authorized under
this chapter, but may be approved for a shorter period as determined
by the approving secretary.
(c) Prior to approving any request by a county under this section,
the approving secretary shall provide written notification to the
chairperson of the appropriate policy committee in each house of the
Legislature. Final approval shall not occur until 30 days after this
written notification is provided.

18987.2. (a) (1) In order to participate in the pilot program
authorized by this chapter, a county board of supervisors shall
establish a child and family interagency coordinating council.
(2) A council established pursuant to this subdivision shall plan,
implement, monitor, and evaluate the pilot program.
(b) A county board of supervisors may designate an existing
interagency coordination council to perform the functions specified
in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) if the existing interagency
coordination council meets the representation requirements of Section
18987.25.
(c) City and local education agency representatives shall be
appointed by the appropriate governing bodies.
(d) The board of supervisors shall undertake reasonable measures
to ensure that membership of the interagency coordinating council
reflects the cultures and ethnicities of the pilot program area.
(e) The board of supervisors of a county, as a condition of
participation in the pilot program, shall approve both the strategic
plan developed pursuant to Section 18987.3 and the county's
participation in the pilot program authorized by this chapter. If
city or school services or funds are included in the pilot program,
the strategic plan shall also be approved by the governing bodies of
any city or local education agency whose services or funds will be
involved in the pilot program.
(f) Counties desiring to participate in the extended pilot program
shall submit to the California Health and Human Services Agency
updated strategic plans, including, but not limited to, updated
performance outcomes and indicators, not later than March 31, 2001.

18987.25. A council established pursuant to Section 18987.2 shall
be comprised of, at a minimum, all of the following:
(a) The county superintendent of schools, or the superintendent of
each school district included in the pilot project.
(b) A representative of the county juvenile justice system.
(c) County, city, and school officials responsible for funds or
services included in the pilot program.
(d) Representatives of all of the following:
(1) Service providers affected by the strategic plan.
(2) Labor organizations representing public employees who will be
affected by the strategic plan.
(3) Recipients of services included in the strategic plan.

18987.3. Each child and family interagency coordinating council
shall develop a strategic plan for implementation of the pilot
program. The plan shall contain all of the following:
(a) A list of the members of the county child and family
interagency coordinating council, and a description of project
responsibilities for each member.
(b) Identification of the county or the area within the county to
be served by blended funds.
(c) A description of the population to be served, the amount and
types of current services available from public, private
not-for-profit, and community-based services agencies, the needs of
that population, and the goals, objectives, and outcomes of the
services to be provided.
(d) A timeline showing how the county proposes to implement the
pilot project.
(e) A description of existing collaborative, integrated services
efforts and how the strategies proposed for the pilot program will be
used in conjunction with these efforts.
(f) A description of the services to be funded by the county child
and family services fund.
(g) An identification of the state and local funds to be
consolidated and how those blended funds shall be used.
(h) (1) A description of an evaluation plan that meets all of the
following requirements:
(A) It is based on community needs and service plans.
(B) It includes baseline data and performance indicators and
outcomes relevant to services funded by the county child and family
services fund.
(C) It measures outcomes for children, families, and communities
targeted by the pilot project.
(D) It utilizes, where applicable, state-adopted performance and
outcome measures developed for specific populations included in the
county plan.
(2) The evaluation shall also identify obstacles encountered in
implementation of the pilot program.

18987.36. The board of supervisors of each participating county
shall submit to the California Health and Human Services Agency all
of the following:
(a) An annual report showing which funds were transferred into the
county child and family services fund and an annual status update
indicating the extent to which the plan has been implemented.
(b) Interim evaluation reports on the implementation and
measurements of progress toward performance outcomes of the pilot
program, to be submitted following the second and fourth year, and
not later than six months after the sixth year of the implementation
of the pilot program.
(c) A final evaluation of the pilot program, to be submitted not
later than six months prior to the completion of the pilot program.

18987.4. (a) (1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
Youth Pilot Program Fund. State and federal moneys that, if
distributed to a designated county, could be transferred to a county
child and family services fund, may be transferred, at the direction
of the designated county, to the Youth Pilot Program Fund for the
purposes specified in subdivision (c) of Section 18987.
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, moneys in the
fund are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years,
to the State Department of Social Services to be allocated to and
expended by counties in accordance with county strategic plans
developed pursuant to Section 18987.3.
(2) The Director of Finance may authorize the transfer of funds
appropriated pursuant to the following items of the Budget Act of
1996 and budget acts thereafter to implement this section.
(A) State Department of Health Services, Item 4260-101-0001 or
Item 4260-111-0001, or any combination thereof.
(B) State Department of Mental Health, Item 4440-101-0001(c)
(Program 10.47, Children's Mental Health Services) or Item
4440-131-0001 (Program 10.80, Special Education Pupils Program), or
any combination thereof.
(C) State Department of Social Services, Item 5180-101-0001, Item
5180-141-0001, or Item 5180-151-0001 or any combination thereof.
(3) Amounts transferred pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be limited
to those amounts that would otherwise be allocated to those
designated counties.
(b) The Director of Finance shall provide written notification to
the chairperson of the appropriate budget and policy committees in
each house of the Legislature upon transfer of any funds into the
Youth Pilot Program Fund.
(c) Moneys in the fund shall be available for encumbrance until
July 1, 2006, at which time all unencumbered moneys in the fund shall
revert to the General Fund.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to continue the commitment
to maximize federal matching funds for state and county programs.
(e) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Youth Pilot
Program Fund shall be continuously appropriated only for the purpose
of implementing the Youth Pilot Program pursuant to this chapter, and
a continuously appropriated fund shall not be used to implement the
provisions of this chapter, should they be extended beyond the pilot
program.
(f) This section shall remain operative only until July 1, 2004,
shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2005, and as of that
date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted
before January 1, 2005, deletes or extends that date.

18987.45. The pilot program authorized by this chapter shall be
deemed successful in a given county if, at a minimum, the outcomes
from the services funded by the county child and family services fund
show improvement over baseline performance.

18987.5. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this chapter
shall become inoperative on January 1, 2013, and, as of January 1,
2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes
operative on or before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends the dates
on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.