Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $42 million statewide effort to support Child Protective Services casework during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
With schools closed during the pandemic and statewide orders to remain indoors as much as possible, Child Protective Services activities like in-person visits and responding to referrals from teachers and others who
frequently interact with children have been significantly limited, Newsom said.
The funding will support things like social worker outreach, family resource centers, county-level child protection programs and more resources for state Health and Human Services workers in order to support the
roughly 86,500 children in the state’s welfare system, including about 59,000 in the foster care system, according to Newsom.
“When the schools are closed, that’s another point of contact where people are able to make referrals based upon the interaction of children, interactions of school nurses to one another, interactions with our caregivers, not least of which our teachers,” he said. “Those referrals are down. Those in-home visits are down as a consequence of the virus.”
The state is providing about $40.6 million of the $42 million effort. More than half of the total funding will be used to send $200 per month to families that are deemed “at risk” to help them buy groceries and
other necessities.
“It absolutely is an investment on a continuum to support both families at risk and our system, as well as those who are currently serving as resource families for our foster youth across the state,” state Director
of Social Services Kim Johnson said.
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Newscum actually thinks CPS does anything?
Your tax dollars at work. Any real reporters left out there? What percentage of those welfare recipients are here legally? Who cares? you’re going to pay anyway. You’re going to pay and keep paying. How about that fridge full of chocolate ice cream in Pelosi’s fridge? I’ll bet her garage is stacked to the ceiling with TP too.
Criminals being let out, taxpayer money being given to illegals, free money here and there! I’m getting tired of this…and quick!
Getting close to selling the house and getting the heck outta here.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this whole thing benefits illegals more than it ever benefits your average, hard-working taxpayer.
What is this guy thinking.Throw him out of office.Does he think this money is going to be spent on groceries and personal need items.This Governor’s salary is a wast of tax payers money.
He needs to take care of California residents. He is Governor of California last I saw, but not for long! He’s toast!
Recall Newsome!
I second that!
I third that !
Did you read what it says? This is a package to increase supports for CHILDREN in the welfare system. Why does everything have to be a political assault? Can’t you for once look at something and see how it it for the greater good?
To S….if you think CPS doesn’t do anything, please propose a solution. What do you believe they need to be doing that that aren’t? Do you have any experience with them?
To Old-timer….. would you rather CHILDREN be underserved in this crisis? I would hope a foster family would take the additional funds to supplement and support the family. If they don’t that’s a whole other issue but why should Gov Newsom be thrown out of office for putting a program in place to support some of our most vulnerable?
Nothing political about pointing out his misperceptions of CPS. It is okay for you to disagree with others’ comments and even my perception; which I know you will.
I’ve vast experience in dealing with and observing CPS in this State and a few others (not on a personal level). The harm CPS does by inaction or misguided action far out weights the good they do.
Thank you for your comments; after all…
It is all about the CHILDREN!
Then give them a card they can only use for food.
Is this another ” proud to be the first?” Little bit here, little bit there, (at the tax payers expense) all to add to his presidential portfolio. Doesn’t he come across as a caring, for the people kinda guy?
Is Gavin drinking heavily again? He supposedly got help after his cheating affair, but did it work?
What a bunch of trolls. This man is saving lives and you are talking about “TAXPAYER DOLLARS”?? Remember, everyone is a taxpayer, not just you. And saving lives and public health is HIS RESPONSIBILITY, but I know that’s hard to remember, you were each governors of a state so long ago…
@Cher So you think those day laborer at Home Depot pay taxes, huh? There is a whole underground cash economy that avoids paying taxes altogether, a lot of it driven by illegal alien employment. Cash is sent out of the country to relatives who either bank it for the individual or use it for support themselves. California is one of the largest offenders in this regard.
@ Gittyup Hey there, Gittyup, I’m pretty sure we agree on very little but that’s ok. What would be the point of all this if everybody just agreed on everything? I have sympathy for your comments about the day laborers underground economy and not paying taxes. That’s the supply side. My question for you is: Would you be willing to advocate for aggressive enforcement to attack the demand side? Kind of like how we throw not just drug dealers in jail, but the users, too. Are you ok with stings in the Home Depot parking lot, raids on construction sites, and yanking contractor’s licenses from offenders? And not just the little guys. Go after the big fish. Are you ok with holding master contractors accountable for the business practices of their subcontractors?
Interesting question … I’ll have to think about it.
Lets set the record straight you shallow, non-factual first posters. I did not see the word “Illegal(S)” in the post. To be blunt, the reality is that right now there are kids and families with limited resources,disabilities,single parents, and other family dynamics make it a rough time. Or shall we put it to fix the never ending potholes in Concord that I come by all the time? I think Concord residents and Pleasant Hill residents should pay out hardworking people who come across them? (sarcasm). Geesh.
Newsom isn’t suffering through all this. I’m sure he goes home at night to a well-balanced meal complete with fresh vegetables selected and prepared especially for the family meal by his personal chef and served by some State of California provided household servant. Somehow, I don’t see his well-heeled wife slaving over a hot stove all day. Then after dinner, he can play with the children in his perfectly heated and air conditioned upscale abode, also paid for by taxpayers, and sleep at night comfortably on the most expensive mattress and pillow available. In the morning, he slicks on his hair gel and gets ready for his “distraught-over-the-events” appearance on the Gavin Newsom hour at noon, carried statewide by television and radio, because he says so.
and that’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth folks!
@Aunt Barbara Normally my Aunt Barbara isn’t that supportive, but thanks! Lol.
GittyUp, You sound jealous of the Governor. What prevents you from having a meal with fresh vegetables. In the past few days I have been to Safeway and Grocery Outlet, Safeway was out of raspberries, but had plenty of vegetables and Grocery Outlet had raspberries and vegetables. I have a nice meal every night with fresh vegetables and raspberries for dessert. Granted I have to cook it myself, but then I love to cook, so not a problem.
Always the beautiful elite all-for-one dems calling opinion sharers trolls and other names. Hmmm
Anybody that thinks Gavin is doing a good job or the Democrats has a case of ideological neurosis. Hanne i’m not sure which school system you attended I’m assuming it was in Denmark as you always like to recall your country of origin… my advice -should leave your socialist Neo liberal technocrat “bend over for foreign invader” thoughts in Denmark your in America baby. These people want open borders so they can get more votes because the average American with a bit of common sense who didn’t go to Cal Berkeley or some elite prestigious Snob school (filled with leftist, Karl Marx, can’t hack in the real world professors) isn’t buying the progressive (sell out and cower) lifestyle. CPS is a joke the courts destroy families and are anti male. Get rid of no fault divorces bring back accountability and recall this charlatan governor. Can we elect someone with a pair and who’s pro America ? Hold let’s ask Mike Wagner his opinion cause he got that haas degree knowledge
Having farm-to-table organic produce grown and snipped and cared for in your own sprawling mansion backyard and prepared by your own team of white-clad kitchen cooks and spoonfed to you is not the same as going to Grocery Outlet Bargain Market in Antioch and bringing home raspberries with white speckled mold on the bottom.
Thank you for Cutting through the crap, Bill. Sore Heine needs softer tp.
The fractured delivery of social services to the needy is responsible for the multitude of problems we are seeing in society today. Thousands of individual nonprofits siphon contributions away from those who need it by paying administrators and staff huge salaries to do selective helping for specialized groups, leaving others out in the cold.
It has been the rise of this model, rather than a centralized agency allocating funds with equanimity, which has contributed to many of the problems we see today: homelessness, the visibly mentally ill on the streets, increased crime, expedient care of the sick, the decline in finding long-term solutions to societal ills, the goal of keeping families together, and so on. Were the money donated and collected in a centralized pool without the duplication of administrators and staff salaries, building costs, etc., the problems it is intended to, and could, solve would be manageable and permanent solutions could be found.
As it is, a patchwork of inefficiency exists, and who suffers as a result … those who need the help the most. That money is going instead to multiple nonprofit administrators, staff, and building (office) costs with specialized goals only. The models operational in the 1950s and 60s worked more efficiently to alleviate these problems.
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