Title WIC, California Welf. & Inst. Code

(a) Subject to an appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, the department shall award grants to counties, tribes, or groups of counties or tribes, that provide services to older adults and dependent adults who experience abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or e…

There is hereby created the Community Challenge Grant Program in the State Department of Health Services to provide community challenge grants to reduce the number of teenage and unwed pregnancies. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 197, Sec. 51. Effective July 22, 1996.)

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) One in three children in California is born out of wedlock. (b) As many as 70,000 children were born to teenagers in each of at least the last two years and nearly 25 percent of these were born to teenage mothers…

(a) The State Department of Health Services shall administer grants for purposes of this chapter that shall be awarded pursuant to a request for application process. (b) Grants shall be awarded to existing and new community-based nonprofit organizations and county and local gover…

(a) An advisory committee of 10 members shall be appointed to advise and consult with the department regarding the Community Challenge Grant Program in the following areas: (1) The broad goals of the program. (2) Effective strategies for implementing the program. (3) Elements of …

Grant applications shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Plans for community collaboration with parents, local agencies, businesses, school leaders, community groups, and private organizations. (b) Measurable objectives selected by the applicant. (c) Evidence o…

(a) Criteria for grant selection shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) Degree of community input and collaboration in the project. (2) Degree of involvement of parents and families within the community. (3) Degree of involvement of nongovernmental organizations…

(a) Grantees shall be required to match a portion of the grant awarded under the Community Challenge Grant Program with either dollar or measurable in-kind contributions as provided by this section. (b) Grantees shall provide a match of not less than 10 percent for the first year…

(a) The costs for state administration of the Community Challenge Grant Program may be up to 5 percent of the total appropriation for the program. The Legislature shall be notified of the administrative costs of this program pursuant to Section 28 of the Budget Act of 1996. Indir…

The department shall conduct a statewide independent evaluation of the program, assessing the program’s effectiveness in achieving stated outcomes as established by the department. The evaluation shall be performed only when for this purpose funds are appropriated in the annual B…

The program provided for under this chapter shall be implemented only to the extent that funds are appropriated in the Budget Act. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 839, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2001.)

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Competitive employment” means work in the competitive labor market that is performed on a full-time or part-time basis in an integrated setting and for which an individual is compensated at or above the min…

(a) There is in the California Health and Human Services Agency the Office of Employment First. (b) The office’s mission is to coordinate the Employment First Policy, as described in Section 4869, in order to reduce redundancy, ensure coordination of all employment support servic…

(a) The department and the Department of Rehabilitation shall develop an interagency agreement, with respect to the delivery of habilitation services and vocational rehabilitation programs, to create an integrated employment services system between the Department of Rehabilitatio…

(a) (1) In furtherance of the purposes of this division to make services and supports available to enable persons with developmental disabilities to approximate the pattern of everyday living available to people without disabilities of the same age, to support the integration of …

(a) To encourage competitive integrated employment opportunities statewide for individuals with developmental disabilities, the department shall establish guidelines and oversee a program, to the extent funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, to increase…

(a) In addition to the program described Section 4870, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act, the department shall establish, by December 31, 2021, a program to increase pathways to competitive integrated employment that shall meet both of the following requirements: (1) …

(a) In addition to the program described in Section 4870, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act for this purpose, the department shall establish, by December 31, 2022, a three-year pilot program that focuses on competitive integrated employment, postsecondary education, a…

(a) The Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, in coordination with the Director of the California Department of Aging, shall lead the development and implementation of the master plan for aging established pursuant to Executive Order No. N-14-19. (b) The M…