CalWORKs: multidisciplinary services teams.

Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Each county is required to pay a share of the cost of both aid grant and administrative costs for the CalWORKs program. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to develop 3-year pilot projects in Counties of Alameda, San Bernardino, and Ventura, at the option of each county, to create an integrated and coordinated case management system for the delivery of services to families receiving CalWORKs benefits through the use of multidisciplinary service teams, as defined. Existing law required the department to submit a report to the Legislature by April 1, 2002, on the outcomes of these pilot programs and other specified factors. This bill would require the department to submit a new report to the Legislature by April 1, 2020, that considers all relevant pilot program data from 2002 to 2019, inclusive. The bill would repeal these provisions on April 1, 2024.