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CONSENT
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)
AFL-CIO
AFSCME
JG:ej 4/11/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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