BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: June 6, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Richard S. Gordon, Chair
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140 (Cannella) - As Introduced May 5, 2016
SENATE VOTE: 38-0
SUBJECT: Foster Care Awareness Month
SUMMARY: Acknowledges the month of May 2016 as Foster Care
Awareness Month. Specifically, this resolution makes the
following legislative findings:
1)The foster care system in California is a network of
government agencies, private, community, and faith-based
organizations, families, and individuals working together to
provide children and youth safe and supportive living
situations when their families are unable to do so.
2)Many California counties have reduced the number of children
and youth entering foster care by helping at-risk families
access community services that provide the skills and
resources these families need to effectively care for their
children.
3)Although the State recognizes the importance of maintaining
strong, vital connections among foster children and youth,
their siblings, and extended families, the state acknowledges
that 9% will exit foster care to live with nonparent relatives
or guardians and 38% of children entering foster care will not
be reunited with their families.
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4)To ensure those children receive the best care, the State has
developed many programs designed to find permanent families
for children in foster care, assist older youth in securing
meaningful, supportive transitions from foster care, and
expand the support of relatives, foster parents, and adoptive
caregivers who provide permanent homes to foster children.
5)The State continues to revise its foster care policies in
order to develop a comprehensive approach to assessing the
needs of children and families, finding home-based family care
placements, supporting these placements with services, and
developing thorough information about and an understanding of
how children and youth are affected by and benefit from state
foster care programs.
6)The State is committed to improving the lives of all children
and youth touched by the child welfare system by working in
partnership with all organizations involved in the foster care
system and the adoption process.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
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