CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
2201 K STREET, SACRAMENTO, CA 95816 www.cacfs.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: THROUGH ADVOCACY, EDUCATION AND EXECUTIVE SUPPORT, PROMOTE, CHAMPION, AND LEAD OUR MEMBER AGENCIES IN PROVIDING SERVICES OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY THAT DEMONSTRABLY IMPROVE THE LIVES OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

MEMBER SERVICESWHEN AN AGENCY JOINS THE CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES, IT JOINS A FAMILY OF OUTSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS THAT CAN BE COUNTED ON FOR SUPPORT, ADVICE, AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. MEMBER AGENCIES RECEIVE ALL THE FOLLOWING SERVICES AND BENEFITS:- REPRESENTATION ON STATEWIDE POLICY ISSUES BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATION, CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE, AND STATE ADMINISTRATIVE AND REGULATORY AGENCIES.- ASSISTANCE INTERFACING WITH STATE AGENCIES TO GET QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND PROBLEMS RESOLVED.- TWO ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES FOR EXECUTIVES THAT OFFER GROUP HOME ADMINISTRATOR AND PROFESSIONAL CEU'S WITH REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES.- REDUCED RATES AT PRACTITIONER TRAINING SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES.- AGENCY INCLUSION IN THE ONLINE MEMBER DIRECTORY.- "SOMEDAY MORNING" UPDATES KEEPING MEMBER AGENCIES ABREAST OF CURRENT TRENDS AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS.- COMPREHENSIVE AND DETAILED ALERTS AND UPDATES ON BUDGETARY, LEGISLATIVE, AND REGULATORY ISSUES IMPACTING MEMBER AGENCIES.-ACCESS TO THE ALLIANCE WEBSITE FOR CRITICAL INFORMATION AND PUBLIC POLICY POSITION DECISION-MAKING.- DIRECT ACCESS TO ALLIANCE STAFF WITH EXPERTISE IN AREAS IMPACTING MEMBER AGENCIES.- OPPORTUNITIES TO SET POLICY DIRECTION GUIDING LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY ADVOCACY BY ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING ON ALLIANCE COMMITTEES AND WORK GROUPS IN PROGRAM AREAS OF INTEREST.- OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE IN ALLIANCE SPONSORED PRACTICE IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES INCLUDING ACQUISITION OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES, UTILIZATION OF COMMON EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE ELEMENTS, GATHERING AND ANALYSIS OF PRACTICE-BASED EVIDENCE FOR INTERVENTIONS MEMBERS HAVE DEVELOPED ON THEIR OWN, AND PARTICIPATION IN A NATIONAL BENCHMARKING PROJECT.- EXECUTIVE SUPPORT & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ADDITIONAL MEMBER SUPPORT - Provided Technical Assistance and Advocacy for STRTPs - Provided technical assistance to some 20 Alliance members in process of gaining provisional and permanent STRTP licenses by reviewing CCR Branch and CCL revision notes and providing guidance to support effective responses- Created and broadcast STRTP Licensing webinar for Alliance members- Monitored and reviewed DSS confidence lists with CCR reviewers identifying status of group home licensing transitions to STRTP licensed status to address challenges and facilitate progress toward licensure- Participated in technical assistance calls with DSS, CBHDA, county mental/behavioral health to resolve barriers to STRTP licensure- Facilitated resolution of Community Care Licensing issues for individual Alliance members- Participated in Alliance member host visit for state and county CCR stakeholders- Provided staff support for Residential Care, Juvenile Justice and TAY Services Committees- Developed and disseminated TAY Services Committee member survey regarding THP for NMD rate- Reached out to engage incoming chairs of Residential Care and Juvenile Justice Committees in preparation for ongoing committee activity and Executive conferences

ADVOCACYTHE CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES PURSUES AN AGGRESSIVE AGENDA OF LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF ITS MEMBER AGENCIES AND THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES THEY SERVE. STAFF REPRESENTS THE ALLIANCE BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE, REGULATORY AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES, AND THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. EXPERIENCED AND EXPERT, STAFF MEMBERS MONITOR THE STATE BUDGET AND LOBBY BOTH FOR AND AGAINST LEGISLATION. THE CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE PROMOTES PROGRAMS AND POLICIES THAT ARE BENEFICIAL TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, GUARDS THE RESOURCES NECESSARY FOR MEMBER AGENCIES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES THEY SERVE, AND VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS THAT ARE POTENTIALLY HARMFUL. STATE ISSUES AND LEGISLATIONIssued Letters of Support for 10 Assembly bills and 4 Senate billsSuccessfully Co-Sponsored Mental Health LegislationAB 763 (Gray): Specialty Mental Health Services. Would require the Department of Healthcare Services to convene a workgroup tasked with development of a list of standardized forms related to determining eligibility and reimbursement of SMHS. Successfully advocated for bills that would improve the lives of children and youthAB 6 (Reyes): Early Childhood Education Branch. Would require California Department of Education to develop a branch on Early Childhood for implementation of early childhood education programs and future universal preschool. Would also require coordination with Department of Social Services. Status: In Senate Appropriations. AB 337 (Quirk-Silva): Foster Care Payments for School. Would require foster parents to be notified of travel reimbursements for school of origin transportation within 3 business days. Status: In Senate Appropriations.AB 428 (Medina): Special Education Funding. Would provide special education rate equalization, raising the ADA rate for low payment districts. Status: In Senate Appropriations.AB 662 (Cunningham): Crimes Against Minors. Insert gender neutral language into code sections and remove language that it is illegal to entice an unmarried female under 18 years of age and of previous chaste behavior from code relating to prostitution. Status: In Senate Appropriations. Status: In Senate Appropriations.AB 865 (Reyes): Would require counties to include information on care and supervision of children who have been trafficked as part of the mandatory preapproval caregiver training. Status: In Senate Appropriations.AB 898 (Wicks): Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services. Would develop a Childrens Behavioral Health Action Team to develop and report specified findings and recommendations, including identifying opportunities for the state to better ensure that Medi-Cal eligible children receive behavioral health services. Status: In Senate Appropriations.Successfully advocated for bills that would improve the social services workforceAB 565 (Maienschein): Public Health Workforce Planning. Would add county mental health plans and contracted agencies to the list of practice settings for physician loan forgiveness programs. Status: In Senate Appropriations. SB 10 (Beall): Peer Support Specialist Certification. Would require the Department of Healthcare Services to establish a peer support services certification program as part of the mental health a substance use disorder delivery system. Status: In Assembly Appropriations.Successfully drafted amendments to legislation impacting Nonpublic SchoolsAB 1172 (Frazier): Nonpublic Schools. Would make numerous changes to oversight of Nonpublic Schools. The California Alliance successfully advocated expanding the educational requirements for administrators and adjusting monitoring language. Status: In Senate Appropriations.Successfully advocated to prevent bills from moving forwardAB 8 (Chu): Pupil Mental Health. Would require schools to have at least one mental health professional for every 60 pupils by December 2024. The definition of mental health professionals was broad and outside the scope of clinicians and could be paid for using Mental Health Services Act Innovations Funds. Status: Delayed until 2020. AB 216 (Weber): Pupil Restraint. Would have addressed school restraint safety measures and placed a ban on use of prone restraint. The Alliance advocated for increased training requirements and to remove the ban on prone restraint. Status: Delayed until 2020. Sponsors have indicated that next year it will no longer ban prone restraint. The Alliance will work with the sponsor in the fall to address concerns for our highest needs students. AB 826 (Reyes): Medi-Cal, Foster Youth. Would make presumptive transfer inapplicable to foster youth placed in a group home or STRTP. Status: Delayed until 2020. The Alliance will work with the author to develop a workgroup in the fall of 2019. AB 1354 (Gipson): Juvenile Court Schools. Would require a county office of education, in collaboration with probation, to develop and implement an individualized transition plan to meet the academic, behavioral, social-emotional and career needs of each court school pupil detained for more than 20 consecutive school days. Status: In Senate Appropriations.SB 35 (Chang): Trafficking and Slavery Task Force. Would reconvene the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force, include a survivor of trafficking and assess the feasibility of a prevalence study to better understand the human trafficking landscape, including sex trafficking and labor trafficking. Status: In Assembly Appropriations.SB 66 (Atkins): Federally Qualified Health Centers. Would authorize reimbursement for a maximum of two visits taking place on the same day at a single location. Status: In Assembly Appropriations.SB 150 (Beall): Chafee Grant Awards. Will authorize awarding up to 200% of the Chaffee allocation amount during the first award cycle and details plans to address spending overages in the event funds are over awarded. Status: In Assembly Appropriations.SB 428 (Pan): Would require a local educational agency, on or before January 1, 2023, to certify to the department that at least 10% of its classified employees and at least 10% of its certificated employees having direct contact with pupils at each schoolsite, or at least 2 classified employees and at least 2 certificated employees having direct contact with pupils at each schoolsite, whichever is greater, have received the youth mental and behavioral health training identified by the department. Status: In Assembly Appropriations.SB 582 (Beall): School Health Partnerships. Would restore the 40% cut to mental health triage grants under the 2018 budget, allocate at least half of these funds to services for youth, encouraging partnerships between schools and local mental health services under the Mental Health Oversight and Accountability Commission authority. Status: In Assembly Appropriations.DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICY & REGULATIONS Worked with the following agencies and groups: California Department of Social Services (DSS), California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS),County Welfare Directors Association (CWDA), California Legislature, Chief Probation Officers of California (CPOC), Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health (CCJBH), California Mental Health Advocates for Children and Youth (CMHACY), Core 10 (community based advocacy organizations)Supported School Based Mental Health Services including Residentially Based Services as related services. Participated in CCR Education SubcommitteeSuccessfully Advocated for Alliance Positions on Implementing Intensive Services Foster CareSuccessfully Co-Sponsoring Legislation in AB 819 (Stone) to Increase Flexibility in the Number of Children Allowed Together in an ISFC HomeRepresented and Advocated Alliance Positions on the FFA Interim Licensing StandardsLOCAL SUPPORT, GRESSROOTS ADVOCACY AND COLLABORATION- Participated on the Child Welfare Councils CSEC Action Team- Participated on CHMACY board and conference - Participated on the Foster Youth Education Task Force- Chair, Fact Sheet and Legislation Committee - Facilitate Fact Sheet and Legislative Committee calls and work in partnership on the update to Foster Youth Education Law Fact Sheets- Attend monthly meetings of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, and track and monitor activities of the MHSOAC including legislative and budget items addressed by the Commission- Attend Advisory Commission on Special Education - Represented Alliance in ongoing meetings of advocacy coalitions Founding member of Behavioral Health Action, a large coalition of leaders in Behavioral Health working to raise the dialogue on behavioral health in the upcoming state election. Participated on the California Model drafting subcommittee. CDSS Child Welfare Advocates Childrens System of Care Committee (CBHDA) Childrens Roundtable quarterly meetings where topics germane to child welfare services are discussed and

TRAININGTHE CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE IS COMMITTED TO BUILDING A HIGHLY SKILLED AND APPROPRIATELY COMPENSATED WORKFORCE OF PROFESSIONALS. THE ALLIANCE PROVIDES AN ARRAY OF TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES SPECIFICALLY GEARED TO IMPROVING THE SKILLS OF DIRECT CARE STAFF, CLINICIANS, AND ADMINISTRATORS WORKING IN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES. EACH YEAR THE CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE HOLDS TWO MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES FOR EXECUTIVES AND SENIOR MANAGERS INCORPORATING PLENARIES AND WORKSHOPS ON A WIDE VARIETY OF TIMELY AND IMPORTANT TOPICS. OFTEN THE LIST OF SPEAKERS INCLUDES MEMBERS OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE, HIGH-RANKING INDIVIDUALS FROM WITHIN THE STATE ADMINISTRATION, COUNTY WELFARE, MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES, AND JUVENILE PROBATION AGENCIES, OR FROM PARTNER ASSOCIATIONS. THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP BUSINESS MEETINGS ARE HELD AT THESE CONFERENCES.PLENARIES AND WORKSHOPS AT MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES ARE APPROVED BY THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR GROUP HOME ADMINISTRATOR CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS AND BY THE BOARD OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES EXAMINERS FOR LCSW AND MFT CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS, AND BY THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS.

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