Bill Text: CA AB2360 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Developmental services: family services: counseling.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-07-02 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [AB2360 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2360
| Introduced by Assembly Member Rendon |
February 12, 2024 |
An act to add Section 4685.2 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to developmental services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2360, as amended, Rendon.
Developmental services: family services: counseling.
Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. In order to provide opportunities for children to live with their families, existing law requires the department and regional centers to give a very high priority to the development and expansion of services and supports designed to assist families that are caring for their children at home, including respite for parents, homemaker services, counseling, and mental health services.
This bill would require the department to establish a Family Wellness Pilot Program under which regional centers shall provide counseling and peer support group services to the families of regional center
consumers, as specified. families of regional center consumers who are 3 years of age or younger. The bill would require the department to evaluate the program and submit a report on the evaluation to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2029.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 4685.2 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:4685.2.
(a) The department shall establish a Family Wellness Pilot Program under which regional centers shall provide counseling and peer support group services to the families of regional center consumers.(b)Eligibility for services under the program shall be as follows:
(1)
(b) Commencing with the 2024–25 fiscal year, families of regional center consumers who are six years of age or younger. three years of age or younger are eligible for services under the program.
(2)Commencing with the 2025–26 fiscal year, families of all regional center consumers.
(c) (1) The department shall evaluate the program’s
effectiveness by looking at all of the following outcomes:
(A) Reduction in psychological distress of the individual and improvement in psychosocial functioning.
(B) Improvement in relational functioning of the family.
(C) Learning coping strategies for possible use in the future when another stress is encountered.
(D) Feasibility of virtual versus in-person counseling sessions.
(2) (A) The department shall submit a report on the evaluation to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2029.
(B) The report to be submitted
pursuant to this paragraph shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
