Title WIC, California Welf. & Inst. Code

For purposes of this chapter, “children’s hospital” means the following facilities: (a) Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno. (b) Earl and Loraine Miller Children’s Hospital and Medical Center of the Memorial Hospital of Long Beach, Long Beach. (c) Children’s Hospital of Los Angele…

Funds appropriated to the department for the purposes of this chapter shall be distributed as follows: (a) The department shall compute the annual amount of financial assistance available to each eligible children’s hospital based upon the ratio of each hospital’s uncompensated c…

(a) As a condition of receiving funds under Section 16996.1, a hospital shall provide medically necessary inpatient treatment, including prescription drugs, for any condition detected as part of a child health and disability prevention screen for any child eligible for services u…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Surgeon General of the United States has described suicide prevention as a serious public health priority, and has called upon each state to develop a strategy for suicide prevention using a public health approach. …

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Suicide Prevention Act of 2000. (Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 159, Sec. 190. Effective January 1, 2002.)

(a) The State Department of Health Care Services, contingent upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, may establish and implement a suicide prevention, education, and gatekeeper training program to reduce the severity, duration, and incidence of suicidal behaviors. (b) In dev…

The department may contract with an outside agency to establish and implement a targeted public awareness and education campaign on suicide prevention and treatment. Target populations shall include junior high and high school students, as well as other selected populations known…

(a) The department may contract with local mental health organizations and professionals with expertise in the assessment and treatment of suicidal behaviors to develop an evidence-based assessment and prevention program for suicide that may be integrated with local mental health…

The department may establish and implement, or contract with an outside agency for the development of a multicounty, 24-hour, centralized suicide crisis line integrated network. Existing crisis lines that meet specifications of the department and the American Association of Suici…

(a) The State Department of State Hospitals shall provide mental health treatment and supervision in the community for judicially committed persons. The program established and administered by the department under this chapter to provide these services shall be known as the Foren…

(a) The State Department of State Hospitals shall establish a statewide panel of independent evaluators responsible for Forensic Conditional Release Program placement determinations for patients committed to the department and transitioning to community treatment settings for ser…

(a) The California Health and Human Services Agency, or a designated department within the agency, shall do both of the following: (1) Engage an independent, research-based entity, as described in Section 5986, to advise on the development of data-driven process and outcome measu…

(a) For purposes of implementing this part, the California Health and Human Services Agency and the department may enter into exclusive or nonexclusive contracts, or amend existing contracts, on a bid or negotiated basis. Contracts entered into or amended pursuant to this part sh…

(a) (1) The department shall develop, in consultation with county behavioral health agencies, other relevant state or local government entities, disability rights groups, individuals with lived experience, families, counsel, racial justice experts, and other appropriate stakehold…

(a) An independent, research-based entity shall be retained by the department to develop, in consultation with county behavioral health agencies, county CARE courts, racial justice experts, and other appropriate stakeholders, including providers and CARE court participants, an in…

A county, or an employee or agent of a county, shall not be held civilly or criminally liable for any action by a respondent in the CARE process, except when the act or omission of a county, or the employee or agent of a county, constitutes gross negligence, recklessness, or will…

The office of counselor in mental health may be created in any county in this state by the board of supervisors thereof. The counselors in mental health to serve under the provisions of this chapter shall be nominated and appointed by the judge of the superior court by written or…

In each county where the office of counselor in mental health has been created under the provisions of this chapter, the judge of the superior court may appoint two such counselors. In Los Angeles County, the number, compensation, and benefits of counselors in mental health are g…

The term of office of the counselors in mental health shall be during the pleasure of the court, and they may at any time be removed by the court in its discretion. Such counselors shall devote their entire time and attention to the duties of their office. (Added by Stats. 1967, …

The counselor in mental health may perform such services as are designated by the county. Every counselor, assistant counselor, and deputy counselor in mental health shall have the powers of a peace officer. (Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 1374.)

Wherever in this code or in any other statute reference is made to psychopathic probation officers, such reference shall be deemed to mean and refer to the counselors in mental health provided for in this chapter; and wherever in this code or in any other statute reference is mad…

There is hereby created in the Health and Welfare Agency an Office of Special Services under the control of an executive officer appointed by and holding office at the pleasure of the Governor. The duties and functions of this office shall be to: (a) Coordinate, oversee, direct a…

The Office of Special Services may enter into agreements and contracts with any person, agency, corporation or other legal entity and take such other action as is necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The office may require state departments to contract with it for…

The Office of Special Services may accept and expend grants, gifts and legacies of money, and with the consent of the Department of Finance, may accept, manage, and expend grants, gifts, and legacies of other properties in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter. (Added by St…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Home-Delivered Meals Act. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1097, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 1997.)

(a) The department shall allocate any new funds to area agencies on aging based upon the existing intrastate funding formula, but without regard to subdivision (b) of Section 9112. (b) Funds may be expended by area agencies on aging for any of the following purposes: (1) To serve…