adoption
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ACL 09-64: Title IV-E Foster Care Overpayment Forms (12/17/09)
Moving slowly along… SB 84 (2007) required DSS to develop regulations and processes for identifying, tracking and collecting Foster Care overpayments. As a result, emergency regulations became effective July 1, 2009. This letter transmits a NOA of overpayment…
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ACL 09-67: Implementation Of The Readoption Provisions For Intercountry Adoptions (11/3/09)
Family Code section 8919 lists the requirements that must be met in order for a readoption order to be issued by a California Superior Court. The bill also established alternative requirements for readoption when the original adoption occurred…
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ACL 09-45E: Foster Care, Kinship, and Adoption Assistance Program rates (10/19/09)
This letter corrects the amount for Rate Classification Lever (RCL) for non-federally eligible children enrolled in Wraparound. [Download]
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ACL 09-51:California’s Adoption Assistance Program And Title IV-E Federal Mandates (9/29/09)
This ACL provides interim direction in the following areas: AAP Eligibility, Agreements and Payment Amounts; Reassessments; and Nonrecurring Adoption Expenses. This ACL supersedes the following AAP regulations: 35333 (c)(2); 35333 (c)(3); 35343 (b)(2)(E). [Download]
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ACL 09-45: Foster Care , Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program And Adoption Assistance Program (9/30/09)
Budget bill implementation meets Child Welfare payments: AB 4 requires certain rates paid in the Foster Care Program decreased effective October 1, 2009. The state-approved foster care rates for out-of-home placements and Foster Care are provided in the…
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ACL 09-40: Private Adoption Agency Reimbursement Program (PAARP) Funding Increase Claiming Guidelines (8/18/09)
This letter provide public adoption agencies with information on the reimbursement process for PAARP. In order for the private agency to claim PAARP funds, the public agency must provide certain documentation to the private agency and enter data…
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ACL 09-35: Waiver Of Right To Further Notice Of Adoption Planning And Waiver Of Right To Revoke Consent (7/28/09)
A review of recent statutory changes that affect adoptions. Topics include allowing a child’s presumed father to waive his right to notice of any adoption and/or to deny his paternity, before or after a child is born; clarifying…
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ACL 09-38: Interstate Compact Equivalency Letter For Extended Family Member Out-Of-State Placements (8/11/09)
This letter transmits an Equivalency Letter that may be used to assist counties in explaining California’s relative non-relative extended family (NREFM) home approval process to other Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) members. This letter was…
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ACIN I-52-09: California’s Child And Family Services Review Triennial Schedule (7/16/09)
Notice of the review schedule. [Download]
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ACL 09-23: Supplement To The Rate Requests For Dual Agency Aid To Families With Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) And Adoption Assistance Program Children Quarterly Statistical Report (5/20/09)
SB 84 provided for supplementmental rates based on the extraordinary care and supervision needs of a dual agency (Regional Center and foster care) child. It also required various data reporting, not all of which can be collected via…