Title
Health and Human Services Agency, Social Services Division, recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign letters of support to the Assembly and Budget Subcommittees to increase statewide funding by $19.7 million for Fiscal Year 2016/17 to expand the Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Program through California’s child welfare services system.
FUNDING: State General Fund.
Body
DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Health and Human Services Agency, Social Services Division, recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign letters of support to the Assembly and Budget Subcommittees to increase statewide funding by $19.7 million for Fiscal Year 2016-17 to expand the Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) Program through California’s child welfare services system.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
In 2014, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) was awarded a grant which provided funding for the continued development of child welfare services’ response to human trafficking through infrastructure building and a multi-system approach among local law enforcement, juvenile justice, court systems, runaway and homeless youth programs, Children’s Justice Act grantees, child advocacy centers and other applicable service providers.
On July 9, 2014, CDSS notified the Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) that El Dorado had been selected as a participant in CDSS’s grant proposal along with Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, San Joaquin, Sacramento and San Bernardino counties. As a participant, the County received technical assistance and support for developing interagency protocols. The $14 million in state funding provided to counties in fiscal year 2015/16 enabled the County to continue the efforts of the Foster Youth and Human Trafficking Task Force, developed in 2013 and operating under an MOU ratified by the Board of Supervisors.
On August 11, 2015, the Board adopted and authorized Supervisors Mikulaco and Frentzen’s Resolut...
Click here for full text