The state is required to implement a permanent Foster Care Rates structure and the Governor's proposed a new Foster Care Rates Proposal in his 2024/25 budget. This rates proposal includes a "once in a generation" BILLION dollar investment in support and services for foster youth.
The Foster Care Rates Proposal was created with feedback from many stakeholders, including many foster and kinship caregivers over the past couple of years. If you would like to learn more or share your support for this investment in foster care, please email: info@cacaregivers.org. |
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Foster youth can still file their 2023 taxes and claim the Foster Youth Tax Credit (FYTC) until October 15.
The FYTC is a $1,117 refundable tax credit available to an individual who was in foster care on or after their 13th birthday.
Help Foster Youth claim the FYTC! A self-filing tool provides step-by-step instructions on how to file taxes and claim the FYTC. Contact us for more information: info@cacaregivers.org
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🙋🏻♀️NEW! - Monthly Level of Care Rate Clinic - Foster, kinship, guardian, and adoptive families are invited to a virtual meeting to ask questions about the Level of Care Assessment, Rate Determination, Intensive Services Foster Care, Due Process, and more. Child welfare policy expert, Jackie Rutheiser, will answer questions about Level of Care Rate Determination guidance. First Wednesdays from 1PM - 2PM starting WED, May 1 | 1PM - 2PM | REGISTER HERE
California Alliance of Caregivers Policy Committee meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month from 2PM - 3PM. The next meeting is May 22 | 2PM - 3PM. All foster, kinship, foster, and adoptive parents are welcome. REGISTER HERE |
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Please browse the bills that we are tracking. You can download the 2024 CAC Legislative Tracker HERE. You can search for more information on bills HERE.
AB 2108 (Ramos) - Requires notification to family members, court appointed counsel, tribes and tribal representatives, the court of jurisdiction and law enforcement when a child or nonminor dependent is missing to promote a more comprehensive and collaborative effort to locate, return and stabilize children and nonminor dependents when they are missing from care.
AB 2173 (Addis) - Provides that the term "emotional disturbance" may be known as "emotional disability" for the purposes of special education.
AB 2711 (Ramos) -
Revises school suspension and expulsion policies for drug-related infractions by requiring local education agencies to create policies using a public health approach, in lieu of
suspensions and expulsions.
AB 2830 (Rivas) - Requires CDSS to implement a new approval process for relative caregivers.
AB 2906 (Bryan) -
Disallows the practice of county agencies collecting survivor benefits to reimburse themselves for the cost of foster care. It will also create notification requirements for SSI reapplications.
AB 3049 (Bryan) -
Requires a court inquiry in a counsel’s last personal contact with any child who is not present in court and authorize a continuance when necessary to provide for counsel to meet with the child.
SB 1197 (Alvarado-Gil) -
Provides for coordinated, timely, and trauma-informed services to dual system-served youth by clarifying that children and non-minor dependents in foster care are not excluded from in-home respite services provided by regional centers.
AB 2137 (Quirk-Silva) - Foster Youth Education Coordinating Programs
AB 2343 (Schiavo) - CalWORKS Child Care
AB 2477 (Zbur) - Foster Youth Savings
AB 2508 (McCarty) - CalKIDS expansion
AB 2520 (Ramos) - Continuums of Care AB 2664 (Bryan) - Reunification
AB 2674 (Schiavo) - Foster Youth Housing
AB 2802 (Maienschein) - Gender Identification for Housing
AB 2929 (Carrillo) - Family Finding Efforts
AB 2935 (Maienschein) - Foster Youth Credit Reports
SB (Menjivar) - Foster Youth Housing SB (Min) - Domestic Violence Mandated Reporting
SB (Wahab) - Chafee Grant Expansion |
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