Virtual Assistant Living and Education program.

Existing law requires the Office of the State Foster Care Ombudsperson to be established in the State Department of Social Services with prescribed powers and duties relating to the management of foster children, including the dissemination of information on the rights of children and youth in foster care. This bill would require the office to take all necessary steps to establish and implement the Virtual Assistant Living and Education (VALE) program, an interactive, secured Internet Web site that would maintain personal information relating to foster youth, as well as other specified contents, to provide the youth and their care providers with centralized access to this information. The bill would require the office to ensure the confidentiality of information on the VALE Web site, as specified.