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Welf. & Inst. Code, § 18203 · Article 1. General Provisions

Welf. & Inst. Code, § 18203

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

Among the county projects approved by the department, priority shall be given to those which involve:

(a) Efforts to minimize as much as possible, within the limits of state and federal laws, the administrative differences between the several categories of assistance;

(b) Demonstrations in providing family service programs;

(c) Employment counseling, training, and placement programs for public assistance recipients;

(d) Extension of rehabilitation and self-care services for handicapped and incapacitated persons not accepted for services offered by the Department of Rehabilitation;

(e) Efforts designed to give particular attention to the family where dependency is associated with illegitimacy, parental behavior, delinquency, and other family relationship problems;

(f) Coordinated use of medical, psychiatric, and casework services with public assistance recipients;

(g) Development of caseload management and case classification programs;

(h) Homemaker services for families and adults;

(i) Protective services for both children and adults;

(j) Projects demonstrating use of preventive services related to dependency, family breakdown, or personal maladjustment; and

(k) Participation of county departments in community service programs, particularly in approaches to problems of the underprivileged presented by recipients from minority groups.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1949.

Source of truth

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Official file
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC&sectionNum=18203.
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