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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 204
Author: Quirk (D)
Introduced:8/25/16
Vote: 21
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: Read and adopted, 8/30/16
SUBJECT: Court Adoption and Permanency Month
SOURCE: Judicial Council of California
DIGEST: This resolution designates November 2016 as Court
Adoption and Permanency Month and encourages the courts and
their local communities to join in activities to expedite
permanency for children.
ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1)Consistent with its commitment to support practices and
procedures that promote access to justice and improved case
outcomes for California's children and families, the Judicial
Council has recognized November as Court Adoption and
Permanency Month every year since 1999.
2)Each year in California nearly half a million incidents of
child abuse and neglect are reported and about 25,200 children
enter child welfare-supervised foster care for the first time.
Nearly 61,900 California children live apart from their
families in child welfare-supervised out-of-home care.
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3)Thirty-eight percent of the children in foster care in
California have lived apart from their families for two or
more years. Twenty-four percent of the youth in care are
transitional-age youth between 16 and 20 years of age.
4)Of the more than 29,600 California children who left foster
care in the 12 months preceding May 2016, 52% were reunited
with their families, 21% were adopted, and 7% exited foster
care without reunifying or obtaining a permanent home by the
time they reached the age of majority.
5)The Judicial Council remains committed to working with the
Governor, the Legislature, and local courts and communities to
ensure that every abused or neglected child finds a safe,
stable, and permanent home with a loving family as quickly as
possible.
This resolution designates November 2016 as Court Adoption and
Permanency Month and encourages the courts and their local
communities to join in activities to expedite permanency for
children.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:NoLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified8/31/16)
Judicial Council of California (source)
California State Association of Counties
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/31/16)
None received
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Prepared by: Melissa Ward / SFA / (916) 651-1520
8/31/16 11:29:21
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