Child abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment projects.

Existing law allows the Office of Child Abuse Prevention to fund, through allocations provided to local counties, child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs. Existing law provides the criteria under which a county selects agency projects and services to be funded under these provisions, including that priority shall be given to private, nonprofit agencies and that training and technical assistance shall be provided by private, nonprofit agencies, as specified. Existing law requires funds allocated to a county to revert to the State Children's Trust Fund and be administered, as provided, if that county chooses not to contract or subcontract for the provision of services. This bill would remove required training and technical assistance by private, nonprofit agencies as a selection criteria. This bill would also remove the requirement that funds allocated to a county that chooses not to contract or subcontract for the provision of services revert to the State Children's Trust Fund. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions.