Title WIC, California Welf. & Inst. Code

(a) For the purpose of providing self-employment opportunities for clients with severe disabilities of the Department of Rehabilitation who are determined by the department to be eligible for such a program, the authorized officials of any county, city, city and county, or other …

(a) The Department of Rehabilitation shall establish by December 31, 2021, subject to appropriation within the Budget Act, a targeted disability employment program to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities to work toward and achieve competitive integrated …

There is within the State Department of Public Health, the Office of Problem Gambling. (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 18, Sec. 27. (SB 75) Effective June 24, 2015.)

As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Affected individual” means a person who experiences adverse psychiatric or physical impacts due to another person’s gambling disorder. (b) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health. (c) “Gambling …

(a) The office shall develop a gambling disorder prevention program, which shall consist of all of the following: (1) A toll-free telephone service for immediate crisis management with subsequent referrals of gamblers and affected individuals to health providers at various levels…

In designing and developing the overall program, the office shall do all of the following: (a) Develop a statewide plan to address gambling disorders. (b) Adopt any regulations necessary to administer the program. (c) Develop priorities for funding services and criteria for distr…

All state agencies, including, but not limited to, the California Horse Racing Board, the California Gambling Control Commission, the Department of Justice, and any other agency that regulates casino gambling or cardrooms within the state, and the Department of Corrections and Re…

The Legislature intends that expenditures on state programs for persons with developmental disabilities shall have measurable and desirable results. The results shall reflect the degree to which persons with developmental disabilities are empowered to make choices and are leading…

In order to gather data that is relevant to ensuring the safety and well-being of persons with developmental disabilities, the department shall ensure that the client master file entry for any person with developmental disabilities placed by a regional center will be updated with…

The department shall prepare by July 1, 1978, a plan for using the method to obtain and report statewide information on program effectiveness. The plan shall include: (a) A description of any sampling procedures to be used. (b) Methods for obtaining and analyzing information abou…

By January 1, 1979, the department shall implement the evaluation system for all programs under its jurisdiction. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any agency providing services to persons with developmental disabilities from utilizing additional evaluation mechanisms for the agency’s own program purposes. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

The procedures for handling persons with mental health disorders who are charged with the commission of public offenses are provided for in Section 1026 of the Penal Code and in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1365), Title 10, Part 2 of the Penal Code. (Amended by Stats. 2014,…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Research has found that women and men who experienced food and housing insecurity in the past 12 months reported a significantly higher 12-month prevalence of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner …

The following definitions apply for purposes of this chapter: (a) “Continuum of care” has the same meaning as defined in Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (b) “Victim service provider” has the same meaning as defined in Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the…

(a) Cities, counties, and continuums of care receiving state funding to address homelessness on or after January 1, 2024, shall include families, including women with children; people fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence; and unaccompanied women within the vulnerable p…

For purposes of improving the quality and accuracy of data about the homeless population, both of the following shall apply: (a) In accordance with federal policies, victim service providers shall not be expected or required to enter client-level data into the statewide Homeless …

(a) The Interagency Council on Homelessness shall set and measure progress toward goals to prevent and end homelessness among women with children, domestic violence survivors and their children, and unaccompanied women in California by doing all of the following: (1) Setting spec…

(a) The purpose of this chapter shall be to establish a program to serve frail elderly individuals 65 years of age and older who are certifiable for placement in a nursing facility. This program shall be known as the Multipurpose Senior Services Program, and shall be structured a…

Program services provided pursuant to this chapter may be purchased by program funds or received from other community sources that consist of, but are not limited to, case management services, recreation services, educational services, senior center programs, information and refe…

(a) This chapter shall be administered by the department, under the authority of an approved interagency agreement with the State Department of Health Services, the single state medicaid agency. (b) To the extent permitted by federal law, each department within the Health and Wel…

The department shall formulate criteria for approval and designation of local Multipurpose Senior Services Program sites. The criteria shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the following: (a) Specifications for a social and health review team to evaluate older individ…

Nothing in this chapter shall preclude expansion of Multipurpose Senior Services Program services if cost effectiveness is demonstrated. The expansion shall be accomplished by establishing new sites, by increasing numbers of clients served in existing sites, or by expanding the n…

The department shall do all of the following: (a) Enter into agreements and negotiated contracts with any nonprofit organization or governmental entity to operate the local sites, consistent with the criteria adopted pursuant to Section 9563. In letting these contracts, the depar…

The department may, where necessary to ensure the effective operation of a multipurpose senior services program, advance to the program’s local government and private nonprofit administering agency, an amount not to exceed 25 percent of the estimated annual allocation to the prog…

This chapter shall remain in effect so long as a waiver pursuant to Section 1396n(c) of Title 42 of the United States Code has been granted by the federal Department of Health and Human Services to the State Department of Health Services. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1097, Sec. 13.…

The department shall explore options for, and obtain necessary legislative and governmental agency approvals to expand, the Multipurpose Senior Services Program. The department shall attempt to obtain the necessary federal approval to expand access to case management services int…