Report 2019-104 Recommendation Responses
Report 2019-104: Youth Experiencing Homelessness: California's Education System for K-12 Inadequately Identifies and Supports These Youth (Release Date: November 2019)
Recommendation for Legislative Action
To ensure that LEAs effectively identify and serve youth experiencing homelessness, the Legislature should require LEAs to follow best practices to collaborate with other organizations that provide services to those experiencing homelessness to enhance identification and provision of the services available to such youth. The Legislature should specify that these collaborations must include working with organizations that provide counseling services, social welfare services, meal services, health care services, and housing services.
Description of Legislative Action
SB 400 (Chapter 400, Statutes of 2021) requires the LEA homeless liaisons to ensure that homeless children and youths are identified by school personnel through outreach and coordination activities with other entities and agencies and that homeless families and homeless children and youths receive referrals to health care services, dental services, mental health and substance abuse services, housing services, and other appropriate services.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: November 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Legislation Enacted
Description of Legislative Action
SB 1204 (Jones, 2020) would have required LEAs to collaborate with other organizations that provide services to homeless children and youths to enhance the identification of, and the provision of services to, those children and youths. The bill would have required these collaborations to include, but not necessarily be limited to, working with organizations that provide counseling services, social welfare services, meal services, and housing services. This bill failed passage due to adjournment of the 2019-20 Regular Legislative Session.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: November 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Legislation Proposed But Not Enacted
Description of Legislative Action
SB 1204 (Jones) would require LEAs to collaborate with other organizations that provide services to homeless children and youths to enhance the identification of, and the provision of services to, those children and youths. The bill would require these collaborations to include, but not necessarily be limited to, working with organizations that provide counseling services, social welfare services, meal services, and housing services.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: May 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Legislation Introduced
Description of Legislative Action
As of January 2020, the Legislature has not taken action to address this specific recommendation.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: January 2020