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                                  SENATE HUMAN
                               SERVICES COMMITTEE
                            Senator Jim Beall, Chair


          BILL NO:       AB 2001                                      
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          AUTHOR:        Ammiano                                      
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          VERSION:       June 11, 2014
          HEARING DATE:  June 24, 2014                                
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          FISCAL:        Yes                                          
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          CONSULTANT:    Mareva Brown                                 
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                                     SUBJECT
                                         
                     Homeless youth: child welfare services

                                     SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the California Department of Social  
          Services (CDSS) to establish a working group to recommend  
          policies to the Legislature to ensure that homeless,  
          unaccompanied minors have access to appropriate placements  
          and services through the state's child welfare system, as  
          specified. This bill authorizes counties that participate  
          in the Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project to  
          establish a pilot program of alternative child welfare  
          services for homeless youth. The bill authorizes each  
          participating county to use Title IV-E funds and state  
          foster care funds to provide long-term intensive support  
          services to meet the needs of homeless youth, including,  
          among other things, temporary placement in a licensed  
          homeless youth shelter, as specified. Additionally, this  
          bill requires a county child welfare agency, upon temporary  
          placement of a homeless youth into a homeless youth  
          shelter, to provide case management services, identify  
          appropriate long-term housing placement opportunities and  

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          wraparound services for the youth, including placement in a  
          certified transitional housing plus program, and to make a  
          recommendation as to whether the youth should continue to  
          receive long-term intensive support services through the  
          pilot program, or whether a petition should be filed to  
          adjudicate the youth to be a dependent child of the court. 

                                     ABSTRACT  

           Existing law:

           1)Establishes the criteria by which a child who has  
            suffered, or is at risk of suffering, significant abuse  
            or harm shall fall within the jurisdiction of the  
            juvenile court which may adjudge that person to be a  
            dependent child of the court. (WIC 300)


          2)Establishes a juvenile court's jurisdiction over a child  
            who has suffered, or is at substantial risk of suffering,  
            serious physical harm or illness, as a result of the  
            failure or inability of his or her parent or guardian to  
            adequately supervise or protect the child, or the willful  
            or negligent failure of the child's parent or guardian to  
            adequately supervise or protect the child from the  
            conduct of the custodian with whom the child has been  
            left, or by the willful or negligent failure of the  
            parent or guardian to provide the child with adequate  
            food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment, or by the  
            inability of the parent or guardian to provide regular  
            care for the child due to the parent's or guardian's  
            mental illness, developmental disability, or substance  
            abuse. (WIC 300 (b))


          3)Prohibits a child from being subject to a juvenile  
            court's dependency jurisdiction solely due to the lack of  
            an emergency shelter for the family. (WIC 300 (b))


          4)Provides that the focus of the juvenile dependency system  
            is the preservation of the family as well as the safety,  
            protection, and physical and emotional well-being of the  
            child. States that, if removal from the home is  
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            the minor with his or her family shall be a primary  
            objective. (WIC 202 and WIC 300.2) 


          5)Provides that a case worker shall maintain full  
            consideration for the proximity of the natural parents to  
            a placement so as to facilitate visitation and family  
            reunification and requires the court, before placement in  
            long-term foster care, to make diligent efforts to locate  
            an appropriate relative. (FAM 7950)


          6)Establishes, in federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless  
            Assistance Act, which provides federal funding for local  
            homeless assistance projects. (42 USC � 11301, et seq.)


          7)Under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act,   
            defines a homeless child or youth as one who lacks a  
            fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence  
            including: 


             a)   Children and youths who are sharing the housing of  
               other persons due to loss of housing, economic  
               hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels,  
               hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the  
               lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are  
               living in emergency or transitional shelters; are  
               abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care  
               placement; 
             b)   Children and youths who have a primary nighttime  
               residence that is a public or private place not  
               designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping  
               accommodation for human beings; 
             c)   Children and youths who are living in cars, parks,  
               public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard  
               housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings;  
               and
             d)   Migratory children living in the circumstances  
               described above. 
               (42    SC � 11434a)

          1)Under the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, defines  
            "runaway" as an individual who is less than 18 years of  





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            age and who absents himself or herself from home or a  
            place of legal residence without the permission of a  
            parent of legal guardian. (42 U.S.C. 5601)

          2)Requires a social worker who believes a child may fall  
            into the jurisdiction of the dependency court to  
            immediately make any investigation he or she deems  
            necessary to determine whether child welfare services  
            should be offered to the family and whether proceedings  
            in the juvenile court should be commenced. (WIC 328)

          3)Requires the social worker to interview any child four  
            years of age or older who is a subject of an  
            investigation, and who is in juvenile hall or other  
            custodial facility, or has been removed to a foster home,  
            to ascertain the child's view of the home environment.   
            (WIC 328)  
                
          4)Requires that whenever any person applies to a social  
            worker to initiate dependency proceedings, the  
            application must be in the form of an affidavit. Requires  
            that the social worker investigate immediately to  
            determine whether child welfare services should be  
            offered and dependency proceedings should be commenced.  
            If a petition is not filed within three weeks, the social  
            worker is required to note the reason for the inaction in  
            an affidavit and immediately notify the applicant.  (WIC  
            329)  
                 
           5)Authorizes an applicant, when a social worker does not  
            file a petition within three weeks, to apply to the  
            juvenile court to review the decision of the social  
            worker. The court may either affirm the decision of the  
            social worker or order him or her to commence juvenile  
            court proceedings. (WIC 331)

          6)Requires the state to seek federal funds to assist in  
            financing public programs including federal Title IV-E  
            funds. (WIC 16500.8)

          7)Authorizes CDSS to conduct a demonstration project in up  
            to 20 counties, based on terms of a federal Title IV-E  
            waiver, to allow flexible use of federal and state foster  
            care funds by using a federal capped allocation model  
            over a 5-year period. (WIC 18260)





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          8)Requires that any county, state, or federal savings in  
            the foster care program that occur as a result of the  
            demonstration project must be reinvested by the counties  
            in child welfare services program improvements. Requires  
            that foster care savings will support the counties in  
            developing a broader and more responsive array of  
            services that will contribute to improved outcomes for  
            children and families. Permits any unexpended state and  
            federal funds may be retained by each county for  
            expenditure in subsequent fiscal years for purposes  
            consistent with this section. (WIC 18260 (b))
                
            This bill: 

           1)States legislative intent to provide a path for homeless  
            youth to receive independent living skill and homeless  
            services from homeless youth shelters and child welfare  
            service agencies under the federal Title IV-E Child  
            Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project by establishing a  
            pilot program of alternative child welfare services in  
            order to reduce homelessness among children.

          2)Establishes that, a child residing in a runaway and  
            homeless youth shelter, as defined, may be found to be a  
            person described in WIC 300, despite having access to  
            temporary shelter. 

          3)Adds to the requirement that a social worker must  
            interview a child who is four or older and in a custodial  
            facility or foster home to ascertain the child's view of  
            the home environment, that a social worker also must  
            interview any child who has requested child welfare  
            services or the commencement of juvenile court  
            proceedings on the basis that he or she is a person  
            described in Section 300.

          4)Requires that if a social worker employs team  
            decisionmaking or a similar process to determine whether  
            to commence juvenile court proceedings in a case where a  
            child, 12 years of age or older, has requested child  
            welfare services, the process shall include the child, as  
            well as individuals the child identifies as important to  
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          5)Requires that if a social worker receives an application  
            filed by a child alleging that he or she is the subject  
            of abuse or neglect, a petition must be filed with the  
            court within five days, or the applicant must be provided  
            the reasons the social worker decided not to proceed.  
            Establishes the same five-day time frame for a court to  
            decide, upon appeal, whether to affirm the social  
            worker's decision or proceed with juvenile court  
            proceedings.

          6)Requires CDSS to establish, with specified stakeholders,  
            a working group to develop recommendations to ensure that  
            homeless, unaccompanied minors have timely, reliable  
            access to appropriate placements and services through the  
            child welfare system. Requires group to begin meeting no  
            later than April 1, 2015, and requires recommendations to  
            be submitted in a report to the appropriate policy and  
            fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before January  
            1, 2016.

          7)Requires the working group to consider a series of  
            questions: 

               a.     How do homeless, unaccompanied minors  
                 experience the child welfare system? 
               b.     What local practices have been effective in  
                 assisting homeless, unaccompanied minors within the  
                 child welfare system?
               c.     What barriers prevent homeless, unaccompanied  
                 minors from accessing the child welfare system?
               d.     What do homeless, unaccompanied youth want and  
                 need from the child welfare system?
               e.     How can placements for homeless, unaccompanied  
                 youth incorporate positive youth development?

          8)Permits counties that are participating in the federal  
            Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project to  
            establish a pilot program, with the approval of CDSS, to  
            implement alternative child welfare services for homeless  
            youth, and sunsets each pilot project on July 1, 2019.

          9)Permits each pilot project to include methods of  
            identifying homeless youth in order to place them in a  
            licensed homeless youth shelter, or other appropriate  
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            services agency, and requires a shelter to notify child  
            welfare services if it determines that a youth in its  
            care may be eligible for long-term intensive support  
            services under the pilot program.

          10)States legislative intent that local law enforcement  
            agencies work with county and local child protective  
            services agencies to identify the appropriate placement,  
            including placement in a homeless youth shelter, for  
            youth who come to the attention of law enforcement  
            because they are homeless.

          11)Establishes that in order for a youth to participate in  
            the pilot program her or she must be 14 years or older  
            and have been homeless for at least 21 consecutive days;  
            that a county welfare agency determines long-term  
            intensive support services are needed and that the agency  
            finds a reasonable presumption that the youth is a person  
            described in WIC 300, but determines, upon consultation  
            with a local homeless youth shelter, if available, that   
            the youth would be best served by the receipt of  
            long-term intensive support services through the pilot  
            program.

          12)To the extent permitted by federal law, permits a county  
            to use state and federal foster care funds within the  
            IV-E waiver project to provide long-term intensive  
            support services to homeless youth, and defines those  
            services to include:

               a.     Guidance to local law enforcement on when and  
                 how to refer homeless youth to a local homeless  
                 youth shelter or child protective services agency.
               b.     Temporary placement in a homeless youth shelter  
                 or other age-appropriate placement for up to 45 days  
                 with an extension of 15 days per the approval of a  
                 county child welfare agency, except for the first 21  
                 days, as specified. If a child is temporarily placed  
                 in a homeless youth shelter through the pilot  
                 program, requires the county child welfare agency to  
                 provide justification for the placement, including  
                 whether there are no other appropriate residential  
                 placements available.
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          13)Requires that when a county child welfare agency places  
            a child into a temporary placement into a homeless youth  
            shelter it must do all of the following:

               a.     Provide case management services, in  
                 coordination with local homeless youth shelters, as  
                 defined.
               b.     No later than the 30th day of placement,  
                 identify appropriate long-term housing placement  
                 opportunities and wraparound services, including,  
                 but not limited to, in a certified transitional  
                 housing plus program, with identified parents or  
                 relatives, as appropriate, foster family homes, or  
                 group homes with expertise in serving homeless or  
                 runaway children.
               c.     Decide whether the youth should continue to  
                 receive long-term intensive support services under  
                 the pilot program or whether to file a petition in  
                 dependency court on behalf of the youth, as  
                 specified.  

          14) Requires CDSS and stakeholders, as specified, to  
            develop by March 31, 2015 standards for the pilot  
            program, as defined, to include how Title IV-E funding  
            may be used and how long it may be provided based on  
            outcome goals for the youth, casework requirements, the  
            process for identifying placements and services,  
            including whether family reunification should be pursued,  
            and criteria for assessing whether a youth is appropriate  
            for the pilot project.

          15)Permits implementation of the provisions of this bill  
            with an all-county letter.

          16)Clarifies that the bill shall not be construed to limit  
            the ability of a child protective services agency case  
            worker or the county child welfare agency to file a  
            petition to declare a youth to be a dependent child, as  
            defined.

          17)Requires that if a county child welfare agency  
            determines that a youth should be made a court dependent,  
            the county agency must consult with a local homeless  
            youth shelter or other entity with expertise in providing  
            services to homeless youth in developing the petition.  





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            Requires the county child welfare agency to comply with  
            federal and state privacy protections in the developing  
            the petition. 

          18)Requires the petition to include, but not be limited to,  
            all of the following considerations:

               a.     The reasons why the youth is homeless.
               b.     Whether the youth received long-term intensive  
                 support services through the pilot program.
               c.     When applicable, a description of the long-term  
                 intensive support services received through the  
                 pilot program.
               d.     Recommendations as to whether those long-term  
                 intensive support services should be continued or  
                 modified.
               e.     Whether additional placement considerations  
                 should be made that will meet the needs of the  
                 youth.

          19)Requires CDSS to evaluate the pilot program to determine  
            the effectiveness of the program in developing and  
            implementing alternative child welfare services for  
            homeless youth. Requires CDSS to submit to the  
            Legislature not later than January 1, 2019 the results of  
            its evaluation together with a recommendation as to  
            whether it should be continued. 

          20)Sunsets the program on January 1, 2020.

                                  FISCAL IMPACT

           An analysis by the Assembly Appropriations Committee of a  
          prior version of this bill, estimated one-time costs  
          potentially in the range of $200,000 to CDSS to establish  
          standards and criteria for the pilot program and to  
          evaluate the pilot program and report to the Legislature.  
          It estimated ongoing minor costs to CDSS to screen county  
          participation in the pilot program. This bill has since  
          been substantially amended.


                            BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION  

           Purpose of the bill: 





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          The author states that AB 2001 acknowledges there is a  
          population of young people who because of their chronic  
          homelessness have developed a certain set of survival  
          skills that do not lead to successful integration into the  
          existing child welfare services system focused on family  
          permanency. According to the author, this unique population  
          of youth is best served by an independent living skills  
          program that is culturally competent to the specific needs  
          of this population as demonstrated by the successful  
          privately-funded non-profit programs run by several of the  
          runaway and homeless youth centers for transition-aged  
          youth. The author states that many of the youth from these  
          programs are former child welfare youth that have gone  
          "AWOL" from the system because most child welfare  
          placements do not accommodate the challenges of a  
          chronically homeless young person. Approximately 40 percent  
          of unaccompanied youth identify as Lesbian, Gay Bisexual or  
          Transgender (LGBT) and fear the child welfare system will  
          force them back to the very families who turned them out to  
          the streets, the author states. 

          In addition to creating a pilot project to target child  
          welfare services to homeless youth, this bill creates a  
          specific pathway for a minors to self-initiate a report of  
          abuse or neglect to child welfare services. 

           Judiciary amendments
           
          This bill was heard June 17 in the Senate Judiciary  
          Committee. Due to the short time between hearings, the  
          author agreed to take that committee's amendments in this  
          committee. Those amendments are detailed below, but broadly  
          they delete the expedited timeline of five days for social  
          workers to investigate and decide whether to file a court  
          petition in cases where a child self-reports abuse or  
          neglect. The amendments also add homeless shelters to  
          juvenile hall and other custodial facilities that prompt an  
          in-person interview of the child when abuse or neglect is  
          being investigated.

           Youth homelessness
          
          A point-in-time survey conducted in 2011 by the California  
          Research Bureau within the California State Library,  





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          reported that based on national survey estimates and  
          California's youth population, it is likely that 200,000  
          youth under the age of 18 and thousands of 18 to 24 year  
          olds are homeless for one or more days a year.<1>


          This figure is based on estimates that homeless youth  
          represent approximately 12 percent of the overall youth  
          population. Additionally, the survey reported there are 34  
          temporary and emergency shelters with 555 beds, and that  
          services for homeless youth are available in only 20 out of  
          58 counties. The report notes that most homeless youth are  
          not involved with the child welfare or juvenile justice  
          systems and therefore are not eligible for services under  
          those programs. Additionally, the survey reports that  
          homeless youth do not typically rely on services intended  
          for homeless adults or families in part because adult  
          facilities are frequently unable to accommodate minors.


           Runaway and Homeless Youth Act


           Based on findings that homeless youth are at greater risk  
          of developing serious health, behavioral and emotional  
          problems and are in urgent need of temporary shelter and  
          services, Congress passed the Runaway and Homeless Youth  
          Act in 1974, and last reauthorized it in 2008. This  
          legislation establishes a variety of grants at a 90 percent  
          match to fund public and nonprofit programs serving  
          homeless youth. Funded services include temporary shelters,  
          counseling, street-based services, home-based services,  
                   drug abuse education and prevention services, sexual abuse  
          and sexual exploitation prevention.


          California receives between $5 million and $7 million a  
          year in grants made directly to providers, each of which  
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          <1> California Research Bureau, Homeless Youth Project.  
          "Programs Serving California's Homeless Youth: Results of a  
          Point-in-Time Survey."  January 2011.  
          http://cahomelessyouth.library.ca.gov/docs/pdf/SUMMARY-Inven 
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          receives a maximum of approximately $200,000. Not all  
          homeless youth shelters receive these funds, and all  
          supplement this funding with a mix of county and private  
          dollars. 


           Youth shelters

           Recent legislation (AB 346 (Stone) Chapter 485, Statutes of  
          2013) authorized CDSS to license youth shelters as a  
          subcategory within existing group home regulations and to  
          modify standards as appropriate. The bill established a 1:8  
          ratio for staff to youth including overnight staff, limited  
          shelter capacity to 25 and the length of stay to 21 days,  
          reflecting standards established in the federal Runaway and  
          Homeless Youth Act.

          AB 346 also provided that an emergency homeless youth  
          shelter is not required to establish a needs and services  
          plan for youth, which is developed to ensure that the  
          longer term needs of the youth are met. Given the short  
          term nature of a stay in a youth homeless shelter, was  
          determined not to be practically feasible for these  
          facilities, nor implementable. Emergency Youth Shelter  
          Facilities are required to perform an intake assessment of  
          the child's needs, including a mental health and medical  
          assessment.


           Child welfare system
           
          Slightly more than 61,000 children were in California's  
          child welfare system as of January 1, 2014, according to  
          data compiled and reported by the Center for Social  
          Services Research at U.C. Berkeley.  In California, CDSS  
          oversees a county-administered child welfare services  
          system which responded to approximately 40,000 reports of  
          abuse, neglect or exploitation in 2012. Children whose care  
          is overseen by the child welfare system are alleged to be  
          abused or neglected by their caregivers. Homelessness alone  
          is not sufficient reason for a youth to be made a dependent  
          of the juvenile court.

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          The goal of the child welfare system, when possible, is to  
          reunite the child with the parent by providing training,  
          support and services to the parent. The process requires  
          the courts to facilitate frequent visits between the child  
          and biological parent and, in some cases, permits the  
          parents to retain some decision-making about the child's  
          circumstances.

          The federal Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of  
          1980 (P.L. 96-2720), requires State agencies to demonstrate  
          that "reasonable efforts" have been made to provide  
          assistance and services to prevent the removal of a child  
          from his or her home and to make it possible for a child  
          who has been placed in out-of-home care to be reunited with  
          his or her family. The law provides for numerous exceptions  
          to this requirement, including when the parent has  
          abandoned the child.


          Existing law permits a social worker to take a minor into  
          "temporary custody" if it is suspected that a child is  
          being, or is at risk of being, abused or neglected but the  
          abuse has not yet been validated, and parental rights have  
          not been formally limited. The authority for the juvenile  
          dependency system to limit parental authority over children  
          is subject to a series of rigorous and lengthy hearings and  
          extensive court oversight designed to ensure that parental  
          rights are only limited to the extent necessary to protect  
          the children and to promote the possibility of family  
          reunification, or if reunification is not possible, family  
          continuity for the child. (WIC 300 et seq.)


          Family Code Section 7950 establishes preferences for the  
          placement of dependent children in foster care, based on  
          the overarching goal to facilitate visitation and family  
          reunification. As a result, first priority for placement is  
          in the home of a relative, unless the placement would not  
          be in the best interests of the child. Caseworkers are  
          required to make diligent efforts to locate the home of a  
          relative, and if a relative is not immediately found, a  
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          Following a child's initial placement, until a court has  
          terminated parental rights and ended family reunification  
          services, the focus of the system is to seek to preserve  
          family continuity. 


          IV-E Waiver demonstration project

          Under California's Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver  
          Demonstration Capped Allocation Project, participating  
          counties may use their federal Title IV-E funds for  
          alternative and creative projects that help children and  
          families avoid a child's entry into dependency. The intent  
          is to permit counties to use flexible funding to target  
          appropriate services to a child or family before removal  
          from the home is needed. 

          Currently, just two counties are participating in the IV-E  
          waiver project: Alameda and Los Angeles. Another 23  
          counties that have expressed interest in participating in a  
          second phase of the demonstration project. According to a  
          timeline released by CDSS, interested counties were  
          required to submit letters of intent to the state by May  
          30; CDSS must negotiate terms and conditions of the waivers  
          with the federal Administration on Children and Families by  
          June 30, 2014 and the plans are executed and finalized by  
          July 31, 2014.

           Related legislation: 
           
          AB 346 (Stone) Chapter 485, Statutes of 2013 established  
          licensing regulations for Emergency Youth Shelter  
          Facilities, including staffing ratios and lengths of stay. 
          
          AB 868 (Ammiano) Chapter 300, Statutes of 2013 required the  
          Judicial Council to establish training programs for judges  
          on the effects of gender identity and sexual orientation in  
          family law proceedings.  This bill also requires the  
          Judicial Council to create training standards on cultural  
          competency and sensitivity relating to, and best practices  
          for, providing adequate care to LGBT youth for counsel in  
          juvenile court and appointed special advocates (CASAs).
          AB 1856 (Ammiano) Chapter 639, Statutes of 2012 required  
          the training for administrators of a group home facility,  





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          licensed foster parents, and relative or nonrelative  
          extended family member caregivers to also include  
          instruction on cultural competency and sensitivity relating  
          to, and best practices for, providing adequate care to LGBT  
          youth in out-of-home care.

          SB 119 (Lowenthal) 2012 would have created a licensing  
          category for emergency youth shelter facilities and would  
          have directed CDSS to adopt regulations for them by January  
          1, 2013. It was held in Senate Appropriations Committee. At  
          the time, it was not clear whether DSS could implement  
          these provisions through regulation or whether statute was  
          needed. 

                                     COMMENTS

           Staff recommends the following amendments to clarify that  
          child welfare investigations may be initiated only when  
          neglect or abuse is alleged, as specified in WIC 300. 
          
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          A child residing in a runaway and homeless youth shelter as  
          defined in Section 1052.35 of the Health and Safety Code  
           who is alleged to come within the provisions of Section 300   
          may be found to be a person described in this subdivision,  
          despite having access to temporary shelter.

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           (d) To the extent permitted by federal law, and based on  
          the terms and conditions of the federal Title IV-E waiver,  
          each pilot program established pursuant to this section may  
          use Title IV-E and  state foster care funds   or other local  
          sources of funding including but not limited to county  
          general funds or revenues received under 1991 or 2011  
          realignment  to provide long-term intensive support services  
          to meet the needs of homeless youth, which shall include  
          each of the following:

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          (f) The department, in consultation with the  California   
           County  Welfare Directors Association and child welfare and  
          homeless youth advocates, shall develop, no later than  
          March 31, 2015, the following standards and criteria for  
          the pilot program:






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           Judiciary Committee amendments
           
          This bill was heard June 17 in the Senate Judiciary  
          Committee. Due to the short time between hearings, the  
          author agreed to take that committee's amendments in this  
          committee. Those amendments are:

             a)   Strike Section 3

             b)   Welf & Inst. Code Sec. 328 is amended to read:  
               "?The social worker shall interview any child four  
               years of age or older who is a subject of an  
               investigation, and who is in juvenile hall,  a runaway  
               and homeless youth shelter as defined in Section  
               1052.35 of the Health and Safety Code   or any other  
               community care facility described in Section 1502 of  
               the Health and Safety Code,  or other custodial  
               facility, or has been removed to a foster home, to  
               ascertain the child's view of the home environment. If  
               proceedings are commenced, the social worker shall  
               include the substance of the interview in any written  
               report submitted at an adjudicatory hearing, or if no  
               report is then received in evidence, the social worker  
               shall include the substance of the interview in the  
               social study required by Section 358. A referral based  
               on allegations of child abuse from the family court  
               pursuant to Section 3027 of the Family Code shall be  
               investigated to the same extent as any other child  
               abuse allegation.

                If the social worker employs team decisionmaking or a  
               similar process to determine whether to commence  
               juvenile court proceedings in a case for a child who  
               is 12 years of age or older, the process shall include  
               the child, as well as individuals the child identifies  
               as important to him or her.
                
             c)   Strike Section 4

             d)   Page 10, line 36 strike "may" and insert "shall"

             e)   Page 10, line 38, after "proceedings" insert within  
               five judicial days"

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             g)   Page 11, strike lines 1-3

             Additional Author's amendments: 
           
            Page 11, after line 34 insert 
            "  (F) How can the Child Welfare System make it easier for  
            unaccompanied minors to self-initiate child welfare  
            services or the commencement of juvenile court  
            proceedings on the basis that he or she is a person  
            described in Section 300?

            (G) How do child welfare investigation timelines and  
            juvenile court timelines affect unaccompanied minors who  
            self-initiate child welfare services or the commencement  
            of juvenile court proceedings on the basis that he or she  
            is a person described in Section 300?  "
             
           

                                   PRIOR VOTES  

          Senate Judiciary                6 - 0
          Assembly Floor           77 - 0
          Assembly Appropriations       17 - 0
          Assembly Human Services         5 - 0





                                    POSITIONS  


          Support:       Bill Wilson Center
                         Coalition for Youth
                         Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission
                         Home Start, Inc.
                         John Burton Foundation
                         Redwood Community Action Agency
                         

          Oppose:   None received.







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