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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 1023
Author: Liu (D), et al.
Amended: 6/19/14
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 9-0, 3/26/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Galgiani, Hancock, Hueso,
Huff, Monning
SENATE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE : 4-0, 4/22/14
AYES: Liu, Berryhill, DeSaulnier, Hancock
NO VOTE RECORDED: Wyland
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/23/14
AYES: De Le�n, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
SENATE FLOOR : 37-0, 5/29/14
AYES: Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Cannella, Corbett,
Correa, De Le�n, DeSaulnier, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani,
Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson, Knight, Lara,
Leno, Lieu, Liu, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nielsen, Padilla,
Pavley, Roth, Steinberg, Torres, Vidak, Walters, Wolk, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Wright, Yee
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/19/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Community colleges: support service for foster
youth
SOURCE : Author
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DIGEST : This bill authorizes the California Community
Colleges (CCC) Chancellors Office (CCCCO) to enter into
agreements with up to 10 CCC districts to establish the
Cooperating Agencies Foster Youth Educational Support (CAFYES)
program in order to provide additional funds for services in
support of postsecondary education for foster youth.
Assembly Amendments provide that if more than 10 CCC districts
apply for funding under the program, the board of governors
(BOGs) shall give priority to those district with the higher
number of eligible students; requires the CCC BOG reports to
include recommendations on whether and how the program under
this article can be expanded to all CCC districts and campuses;
and add a coauthor.
ANALYSIS :
CCC Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) .
Existing law establishes the EOPS to increase the enrollment of
students who are affected by language, social and economic
disadvantages, improve the delivery of programs and services to
the disadvantaged, and increase the number of students who
successfully complete their chosen educational objectives, are
placed into career employment, and transfer to four-year
institutions. The EOPS is to supplement the regular educational
programs of the CCC.
A student must meet the following to be eligible for EOPS:
1. Be a resident of California.
2. Be enrolled full-time (12 units); the EOPS Director is
authorized to allow up to 10% of EOPS students to be enrolled
in nine units.
3. Not have completed more than 70 units of degree applicable
credit coursework.
4. Qualify to receive a BOGs Grant (low-income).
5. Be educationally disadvantaged as determined by the EOPS
Director.
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To remain eligible for EOPS, a student must apply for financial
aid, maintain academic progress, and complete and meet an
educational plan and responsibility agreement.
Cooperative Agencies Resources For Education (CARE) programs .
Existing law authorizes the CCCCO, in cooperation with the
Department of Social Services (DSS) and Employment Development
Department, to enter into agreements with CCC districts that
have established CARE programs. The purpose of the CARE program
is to provide additional funds for support services that are to
include at a minimum child care and transportation allowances,
books and supplies, counseling, and other related services. CCC
districts are authorized to apply for funds by providing
specific information such as how many students will be served
and the level of cooperation with other agencies serving the
students. Participants in the CARE program must be at least 18
years of age, be a single head-of-household, be receiving public
assistance, and desire to complete his/her high school education
or pursue a job-related curriculum The CCC BOG is required to
adopt guidelines and be responsible for the administration of
funds for the CARE program.
Student Success Act . Existing law established the Student
Success Act, which applies to all the CCC students, for the
purpose of increasing student access and success by providing
effective core matriculation services, including orientation,
assessment and placement, counseling and other education
planning services and academic interventions. The CCC has the
responsibility to provide student services and support,
including orientation, assessment, counseling and education
planning, referral to specialized support services, and
evaluation of each student's progress and referral to
appropriate interventions. Students have the responsibility to
identify an academic and career goal, declare a specific course
of study, be diligent in class attendance and completion of
assigned coursework, and complete courses and maintain academic
progress toward an educational goal.
This bill authorizes the CCCCO to enter into agreements with up
to 10 CCC districts to establish the CAFYES program in order to
provide additional funds for services in support of
postsecondary education for foster youth. Specifically, this
bill:
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1. Permits the CCCCO to establish agreements with up to 10 CCC
districts to create the CAFYES program to provide additional
funding and support to community college students who are or
were formerly in foster care.
2. Specifies that funding for the CAFYES program will be
separate and apart from the funding provided under existing
cooperative agencies resources for education programs
established under the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of
2012, as specified, which includes such programs as EOPS.
3. Requires the CAFYES program to provide outreach and
recruitment, service coordination, counseling, book and
supply grants, tutoring, independent living and financial
literacy skills support, frequent in-person contact, career
guidance, transfer counseling, child care and transportation
assistance, and referrals to health services, mental health
services, housing assistance, and other related services.
4. Requires interested CCC districts to apply to the CCC BOG and
provides information that includes the estimated number of
foster youth who will be served and the extent of cooperation
between the local county child welfare agency, the county
probation department, local educational opportunity and
services programs, and the school districts to ensure that
services provided to eligible youth are coordinated with, and
do not supplant, other services provided by the county and
state.
5. Specifies that if more than 10 CCC districts apply for the
program the CCC BOG shall give priority to the districts with
the higher number of eligible students.
6. Requires students to comply with all of the following
eligibility requirements in order to participate in the
program:
A. Be a current or former foster youth in California
whose dependency was established or continued by the
court on or after the youth's 16th birthday; and,
B. Be no older than 25 years of age at the
commencement of any academic year in which he/she
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participates in the program.
7. Requires the CCC BOG to adopt regulations that authorize the
director of the CCC EOPS to accept students who are enrolled
for at least nine units into this program.
8. Requires the CCC BOG to adopt regulations to implement the
CAFYES program, in consultation with the DSS, and requires
DSS, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors
Association of California, the Chief Probation Officers of
California, and other advocates, to consult with the CCCCO to
ensure that the CAFYES program and services are coordinated
with, and do not supplant, other services provided by the
county and state.
9. Requires the CCC BOG to provide a report to the Governor, the
Legislature, and the California Child Welfare Council by
March 31, 2018, and every two years thereafter, describing
its efforts to serve students who are current and former
foster youth, specifies that the report shall include, but
not be limited to the following: (a) recommendations on
whether and how the program can be expanded to all 72 CCC
districts and 112 campuses; and (b) a review on a
campus-by-campus basis of the enrollment, retention,
transfer, and completion rates of foster youth.
10.Provides that the CAFYES program may only be operative if
funds have been appropriated in the budget, as specified.
11.Authorizes the CCC BOG to authorize the CCC Chancellor to
designate up to 2% of the funds allocated for program
administration and up to 3% of the funds allocated for
program development and program accountability.
12.States the intent of the Legislature that any student who
participates in the CAFYES program shall also participate in
the Student Success and Support Program, as specified.
13.Makes various legislative declarations and findings,
including, but not limited to the following: (a) there are
57,000 children and youth in California's foster care system
who have been removed from their biological families due to
maltreatment and placed into the care and custody of the
State of California; (b) by age 21, 45% of former foster
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youth will graduate from high school, as compared to 80% of
Californians of the same age; and (c) by age 26, 4.4% of
foster youth will receive a two-year degree and 3.8% will
earn a four-year degree, rates significantly below the
same-age population in California.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
Assembly Appropriations Committee:
Foster youth services: There are approximately 13,000
self-identified foster youth and former foster youth enrolled in
CCC courses statewide. The number of those who meets the
additional requirements to be eligible for services is unknown,
but it is likely to be much less than half. The 2014-15 base
funding level for EOPS services is $859 per student, and the
support envisioned in this bill is more extensive. If roughly
one in seven districts participate, as authorized, and serve
about 1,000 students at twice the cost of EOP services, the
annual cost would be about $1.7 million (General Fund and Prop.
98).
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/19/14)
Abode Services
Alameda County Office of Education
Alliance for Children's Rights
Aspiranet
Beyond Emancipation
Bienvenidos Children's Center
Bill Wilson Center
Butte College
Butte County Independent Living Program
California Alliance of Child and Family Services
CASA County Chapters of: Alameda, Amador, Butte, Glenn, Contra
Costa, Del Norte, Eastern Sierra, El Dorado, Fresno, Madera,
Kern, Kings, Lassen, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Lake,
Merced, Monterey, Orange, Sacramento, San Benito, San
Bernardino, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San
Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Shasta County, Solano,
Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tulare, Ventura, Yolo County
California CASA Association
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California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State University, Chico
California State University, San Marcos
California Youth Connection
Camellia Network
Cerritos College
Child Advocates, Counties of Nevada and Placer County; and
Silicon Valley
Children's Hope Foster Family Agency
Children's Law Center of California
College of the Desert
College OPTIONS
County of Los Angeles, Department of Children and Family
Services
County Welfare Directors Association of California
Cuyamaca College Unlimited Potential Program
East Bay Children's Law Offices
Encompass Community Services
Evergreen Valley College
Every Child Foundation
Family Care Network, Inc.
First Place for Youth
Five Acres
Foster & Kinship Care Education Program, Los Rios CCC District
Foster Care Counts
Gavilan College
Glenn County Office of Education
Hartnell College Foster & Kinship Care Education Program
Humboldt State University
Imperial County Behavioral Health Services
Imperial Valley College EOPS
Imperial Valley College, Financial Assistance Office
Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program
Larkin Street Youth Services
Legal Services for Children
Loyola Marymount University
National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter
National Center For Youth Law
National Council of Jewish Women-California
New Alternatives, Inc.
Norco College
Peacock Acres
Pepperdine University
Promises2Kids
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Public Counsel
Redwood Children's Services, Inc.
Redwood Community Action Agency
Richstone Family Center
Riverside CCC District
San Gabriel Children's Center
San Joaquin County Human Services Agency
San Jose State University Guardian Scholars Program
Santa Ana College
Santa Monica College Guardian Scholars Program
Shasta College
Shasta County Independent Living Program
SIATech
Skyline College
Social Advocates for Youth
Soroptimist International of Visalia
Southbay Community Services
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Riverside
Victor Valley CCC
W&W Community Development, Inc.
West Hills College Coalinga
West Los Angeles College
YWCA Santa Monica/Westside
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/19/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell,
Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden,
Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A.
P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gomez, Vacancy
PQ:d 8/19/14 Senate Floor Analyses
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SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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