Foster Care
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ACL 13-43: New Roles And Responsibilities In The Specialized Care Rate Program (7/11/13)
Description of the changes in the Specialized Care Rate Program (or Specialized Care Increment), and clarifies roles and responsibilities pursuant to the changes to W&IC section 11461(e)(1). [Download]
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ACL 13-04: Notice Of Education Travel Survey Tool (7/1/13)
Federal law provides that foster care case plans includes a plan for ensuring the educational stability of the child, and allows the cost of reasonable travel for the child to remain in the school in which the child…
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ACIN I-29-13: Extended Foster Care (EFC) Update (6/6/13)
Info on new law requirements (ok, since last year) for the “after 18” program (EFC). Most of the changes are to apply existing Foster Care rules to this older population. The SB 1013 removed the phased-in maximum age…
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ACIN I-26-13: Katie A: Implementation Of The Core Practice Model Through A Learning Collaborative Model (5/29/13)
An announcement to counties of a statewide learning collaborative that will focus on implementation of the Core Practice Model and the Katie A settlement, and to describe how the Readiness Assessment tool and Service Delivery Plan will help…
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ACIN I-17-13: Questions And Answers (Q&A) Regarding Reasonable And Prudent Parent Standards (5/17/13)
A review of the Reasonable and Prudent standard for authorizing activities for minor foster children, and how it applies to licensed foster family home or group homes, certified family homes, and an approved relative and non-relative extended family member…
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ACL 13-13: Monthly Caseworker Visits With Children (5/15/13)
Info for the counties regarding the changes made to the Caseworker Visit mandate as a result of the federal Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act ( Attachment A to the letter). Also gives an update on…
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ACL 13-34: The Independent Living Program (ILP) Annual Narrative Report And Plan For Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2012 (4/26/12)
Sets out the the updated ILP Annual Narrative Report and Plan for FFY 2012 (October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012) for completion by counties. [Download]
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ACL 13-31: Foster Youth Credit Reports (4/19/13)
Instructions for : • Requesting credit reports on behalf of minors; • Providing assistance to Non-Minor Dependents (NMDs) in requesting their credit reports; • Ensuring minors and NMDs receive assistance in interpreting their credit reports and clearing any…
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ACL 12-48E: Extended Benefits For Non-Minors Living With Current Or Former Non-Related Legal Guardians (NRLG) (4/23/13)
One of those big “oops” Errata. The table reviewing eligibility of NMD’s to return to a non-related guardian was wrong. The chart is voided, and the ACL correct it, stating that Nonminors with former NRLG who lost benefits…