2011 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code
DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES [10000 - 18996]
ARTICLE 1. General Provisions
Section 11215

(a) The department, with the advice and assistance of the County Welfare Directors Association, the Chief Probation Officers Association, the California Conference of Local Mental Health Directors, and foster care providers, shall develop performance standards and outcome measures for determining the appropriateness of out-of-home care placements made under the AFDC-Foster Care program and for the effective and efficient administration of the AFDC-Foster Care program. These performance standards shall link county administration of the AFDC-Foster Care program to the state funding of the AFDC-Foster Care program as specified in subdivision (c) of Section 15200.

(b) (1) The performance standards required by this section shall be developed by July 1, 1993, and shall use the Child Welfare Services Case Management System as the database by which to collect county specific information. The performance standards shall be designed to measure each county s performance in all of the areas over which the county has some degree of influence and other areas of measurable program performance that the department can demonstrate as areas over which county welfare and probation departments have adequate resources and can demonstrate meaningful managerial or administrative influence. These areas may include accuracy of eligibility determination, stability of foster care placement, appropriateness of level of care provided, compliance with statutory timeliness, and compliance with data reporting requirements. The performance standards system shall include, but not be limited to, outcome measures reflective of county placing agencies use of the Level of Care Assessment Instrument specified in Section 11467.

(2) The performance standards system shall be implemented in conjunction with the implementation of the Child Welfare Services Case Management System. If the Child Welfare Services Case Management System is not implemented by July 1, 1993, as specified in Section 16501.5, the implementation of the performance standards system, as specified in paragraphs (4) and (5), shall be moved to a date two years after the date of implementation of the Child Welfare Services Case Management System.

(3) Regulations regarding the implementation of the performance standards system shall be adopted no later than July 1, 1994. These regulations shall specify both the performance standards system and the manner by which the percentage of state reimbursement to each county for the AFDC-Foster Care program shall be determined.

(4) Effective July 1, 1995, any county that does not meet the performance standards shall be liable for a decrease in the percentage of state reimbursement for the AFDC-Foster Care program to the amounts specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 15200. This amount will be determined by the department at the start of each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 1995 96, pursuant to regulations developed as specified in paragraph (4).

(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 193, Sec. 232. Effective January 1, 2005.)