Child welfare services: substance use disorder.

Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to implement a single statewide Child Welfare Services Case Management System to administer and evaluate the state's child welfare services and foster care programs. This bill would require the department to submit a report to the Legislature that contains specified information, including the total number of referrals to child welfare services recorded for each year, the percentage of substantiated allegations in which substance use disorder was suspected, and the percentage of substantiated allegations of substance use disorder that resulted in the child or the child's caregiver, or both, seeking voluntary or court-ordered treatment for the substance use disorder. The bill would require the department to submit that report to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2019, and would require the report to include data for all the years from 2010 to 2018, inclusive, as available. The bill would require the department, on January 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, to submit an annual report to the Legislature that includes the above-referenced information for the previous year.