AB 1911, as amended, Eggman. Dual-status minors.
Existing law requires the probation department and the child welfare services department in each county to jointly develop a written protocol, as specified, to ensure appropriate local coordination in the assessment of a minor who is both a dependent child and a ward of the juvenile court. Existing law requires, whenever a minor appears to be both a dependent child and a ward of the juvenile court, the county probation department and the child welfare services department, pursuant to that jointly developed written protocol, to initially determine which status will serve the best interests of the minor and the protection of society.
Existing law authorizes the probation department and the child welfare services department in a county to create a jointly written protocol to allow the 2 departments to jointly assess and produce a recommendation that the child be designated as a dual status child, as specified. Existing law requires the protocol to include a plan to collect data, and requires the Judicial Council to collect and compile the data. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to prepare an evaluation of the results of the implementation of the protocol, as specified, and to report its findings and any resulting recommendations to the Legislature within 2 years of the date those counties first deem a child to be a dual status child.
This bill would instead require the Judicial Council to convene a committee comprised of stakeholders involved in serving the needs of dependents or wards of the juvenile court, as specified. The bill would require the committee, by January 1, 2018, to develop and report to the Legislature its recommendations to facilitate and enhance comprehensive data and outcome tracking for the state’s youth involved in both the child welfare system and the juvenile justice
system, and would require the recommendations to include specified information, including standardized definitions related to these youth. The bill would also require the State Department of Social Services, on or before Januarybegin delete 31,end deletebegin insert 1,end insert 2019, to implement a function within the Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS) that will enable county child welfare agencies and county probation departments to identify youth described above who arebegin delete residingend delete within their counties, and to issuebegin delete guidanceend deletebegin insert instructionsend insert to all counties on the manner
in which tobegin delete track joint assessment hearing information completely and consistently for these youth.end deletebegin insert completely and consistently track the involvement of these youth in both the child welfare system and the juvenile justice system.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 241.2 of the Welfare and Institutions
2Code is repealed.
Section 241.2 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
4Code, to read:
(a) The Judicial Council shall convene a committee
6comprised of stakeholders involved in serving the needs of
7dependents or wards of the juvenile court, including, but not limited
8to, judges, probation officers, social workers, youth involved in
9both the child welfare system and the juvenile justice system, child
10welfare and juvenile justice attorneys, child welfare and juvenile
11justice advocates,begin insert education officials,end insert and representatives from the
12State Department of Socialbegin delete Services.end deletebegin insert
Services, county child welfare
P3 1agencies, and county probation departments.end insert
By January 1, 2018,
2the committee shall develop and report to the Legislature, pursuant
3to Section 9795 of the Government Code, its recommendations to
4facilitate and enhance comprehensive data and outcome tracking
5for the state’s youth involved in both the child welfare system and
6the juvenile justice system. The committee’s recommendations
7shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
8(1) A common identifierbegin insert forend insert countiesbegin delete mayend deletebegin insert toend insert use to reconcile
9data across child welfare and juvenile justice systems statewide.
10(2) Standardized definitions for terms related to the populations
11of youth involved in both the child welfare system and the
juvenile
12justice system.
13(3) Identified and defined outcomes for counties to track youth
14involved in both the child welfare system and the juvenile justice
15system, including, but not limited to, outcomes related tobegin delete recidivismend delete
16begin insert recidivism, health, pregnancy, homelessness, employment,end insert and
17education.
18(4) Established baselines and goals for the identified and defined
19outcomes specified in paragraph (3).
20(5) An assessment as to the costs and benefits associated with
21requiring all counties to implement the committee’s
22recommendations.
23(b) The State Department of Social Services shall, on or before
24Januarybegin delete 31,end deletebegin insert 1,end insert 2019, implement a function within the Child Welfare
25Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS) that will enable
26county child welfare agencies and county probation departments
27to identify youth involved in both the child welfare system and
28the juvenile justice system who arebegin delete residingend delete within their counties
29and shall issuebegin delete guidanceend deletebegin insert instructionsend insert to all counties
on how tobegin delete30 track joint
assessment hearing informationend delete
31consistentlybegin delete for these youth.end deletebegin insert track the involvement of these youth
32in both the child welfare system and the juvenile justice system.end insert
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