foster care | kin-gap
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ACL 08-12: Implementation Of Assembly Bill 1331 (3/19/08)
AB 1331 requires counties to screen all foster youth for potential SSI/SSP eligibility when foster youth are at least 16.5 years of age and no more than 17.5 years of age. The statute also addresses the problem with…
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ACIN I-01-08: Changes To Use Of Federal Foster Care Funds (1/24/08)
Effective January 1, 2008, counties can use of federal Foster Care funds for children who are both foster care children and regional center clients. The county must document that the children have extraordinary and unusual special behavioral or…
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ACL 07-49: New Federal Policy Guidelines Relating To The Foster Care Program (12/19/07)
HSS came out with new guidelines for temporary absences and linkage to the TANF program, are are implemented in California by this ACL. Full grants will be paid for brief absences of less than 14 days, after which…
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ACL 07-54: Federal Requirement To Contact Other States’ Child Abuse And Neglect Registries For Relative And Non-Relative Extended Family Member Home Approvals (12/27/07)
Title says it all. Any time after 1/1/08 that a foster care/probation placement application is made, all counties must contact the child abuse and neglect registry of each state in which a prospective foster or adoptive parent, relative…
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ACL 07-48: Clarifying Guidance Regarding Candidates For Foster Care (11/20/07)
Clarification on when a child is a “candidate” for foster care, for purposes of getting IV-E funds for pre-placement prevention services. The definition of “candidate” is that the child be “at serious risk of removal” as evidenced by the…
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ACL 07-27: Child Welfare Services Criminal Record Checks (10/30/07)
The letter implements AB 1774, and clarifies for whom and how a county child welfare agency or probation department obtains state and federal level criminal history information as part of the process of assessing a relative or nonrelative…
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ACL 07-39: Temporary Placement Of Foster Child With Relative Or Nonrelative Extended Family Member (NREFM) In An Emergency Situation (10/25/07)
Effective 1/07, a statutory modification provides temporary placement of a foster child on an emergency basis when the current foster caregiver suddenly becomes unavailable to continue providing care. The new provisions uses the same requirements as for emergency…
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ACIN I-60-07: Best Practices For Reducing And Eliminating Foster Care Overpayments (10/26/07)
A clarification that the requirement to repay the federal government as soon as a county discovers an overpayment means after provision of due process to the recipient. Comes with an attachment of various strategies. [Download]
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ACL 07-28: SB 1641 (Foster Care Placements) (10/25/07)
Senate Bill 1641 requires a Foster Care placement agency to ensure, “to the fullest extent possible,” the placement best meets the day-to-day needs of the child by assessing which type of placement (relative, family home, group) meets the…
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Errata to ACL 07-09: Correction Implementation Of Assembly Bill 1633 (9/11/07)
This corrects the error in ACL 07-09, which said that 18 year old foster youths could participate in a GED program less than full time basis and still meet Aid Foster Care requirements. Wrongo. The youth MUST be…