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          Bill No:  SB 602
          Author:   Senate Human Services Committee
          Amended:  4/1/13
          Vote:     21


          SENATE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE  :  6-0, 4/9/13
          AYES:  Yee, Berryhill, Emmerson, Evans, Liu, Wright


           SUBJECT  :    Child abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment  
          projects.

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill deletes the requirement that training and  
          technical assistance be provided to nonprofit agencies that do  
          Child Abuse Prevention Intervention and Treatment (CAPIT)  
          projects, deletes the requirement that unused CAPIT funds be  
          reverted to a state fund, and deletes direction about how to  
          spend unused CAPIT funds that are reverted to the state.

           ANALYSIS  :    

          Existing law:

          1.Creates a state Office of Child Abuse and Prevention to plan,  
            improve, develop and carry out programs and activities related  
            to preventing, identifying and treating child abuse and  
            neglect.

          2.Directs counties to maximize funding to encourage federal  
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            financial participation. 

          3.Identifies priority populations for Child Abuse Prevention,  
            Intervention and Treatment projects (CAPIT) funding, and  
            qualifications for providers, as specified.

          4.Requires that training and technical assistance be provided by  
            private, nonprofit agencies to those agencies funded to  
            provide CAPIT services and defines that training and technical  
            assistance, as specified. 

          5.Requires that if a board of supervisors chooses not to  
            contract or subcontract for the provision of services, the  
            funds allocated for that county shall revert to the State  
            Children's Trust Fund, as specified.

          6.Realigns state funding and oversight of the CAPIT program to  
            counties, pursuant to child welfare realignment in 2012. 

          This bill:

          1.Deletes the requirement for counties to fund and provide  
            training and technical assistance for agencies that provide  
            CAPIT services. 

          2.Deletes the requirement for counties to revert unused CAPIT  
            funds to the State Children's Trust Fund.

          3.Deletes reference about how the state should allocate unused  
            CAPIT funds that have been reverted to the State Children's  
            Trust Fund. 

           Background
           
          In July 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 1013 (Budget Committee,  
          Chapter 35, Statutes of 2012), the child welfare trailer bill,  
          which realigned many child welfare functions to counties that  
          had been the responsibility of the Department of Social Services  
          (DSS).  Among those programs was the CAPIT program.  This bill  
          cleans up language related to two requirements that the state  
          can no longer legally administer, as those duties have been  
          realigned. 

          One is the state requirement to mandate training and technical  

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          assistance for local nonprofit organizations that perform CAPIT  
          functions.  The other is the requirement to revert unused county  
          funds to the state, as well as language directing the state how  
          to spend those unused funds. 
           
           

          CAPIT
           
           In 1982, the state created the Child Abuse Prevention,  
          Intervention and Treatment Program (CAPIT), administered through  
          DSS, to fund projects in all 58 counties. The program's intent  
          was to encourage child abuse and neglect prevention and  
          intervention programs by funding agencies that address the needs  
          of children at high risk of abuse or neglect, and their  
          families.  Funding for the program comes solely from General  
          Fund dollars, and is used to fulfill federal Community-Based  
          Child Abuse Prevention grant matching and leveraging  
          requirements. 
           
           Realignment
           
           In 2011-12 the Governor and Legislature realigned $1.6 billion  
          in state funding for the child welfare system to the counties,  
          although it did not at that point change state law related to  
          the oversight of child welfare and adoptions programs.  A year  
          later, in the 2012-13 budget process, the Legislature and  
          Governor made a number of statutory changes to align the funding  
          shift with the philosophy behind it.  Those changes included  
          additional flexibility for counties to administer programs, a  
          re-examining of accountability and oversight functions,  
          technical changes, and others. Among the programs affected were  
          county foster care, adoptions programs and child abuse  
          prevention and treatment. 

           Related Legislation
           
          Budget bills and trailer bills in 2011, including AB 118 (Budget  
          Committee, Chapter 40, Statutes of 2011) and ABX1 16  
          (Blumenfield, Chapter 13, Statutes of 2011), realigned DSS  
          funding for Adoption Services, Foster Care, Child Welfare  
          Services, and Adult Protective Services, and programs from the  
          state to local governments and redirected specified tax revenues  
          to fund this effort.  The realignment moved programs and fiscal  

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          responsibility to the level of government considered to be best  
          poised to provide the services, while eliminating duplication of  
          effort at the state level, thus generating savings, and  
          increasing flexibility.

          SB 1013, realigned many of the functions that had been the  
          state's responsibility, to correspond with the funding changes  
          that had been made in 2011. 

           



          FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  No   Local:  
           No
           

          SUPPORT  :   (Verified  4/11/13)

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