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CalHR seeks multimillion-dollar outreach budget to recruit a more diverse state workforce

3089049 · April 22, 2025
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Summary

CalHR requested $7 million and two positions in 2025-26 including $5.2 million for a paid-media and community outreach campaign to implement AB 1511 recruitment objectives and expand ethnic and community media advertising.

The California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) asked the Assembly Budget Subcommittee for funding to expand statewide recruitment outreach and paid media targeted to ethnic and community outlets.

Monica Erickson, chief deputy director of CalHR, said the department’s baseline budget for 2024-25 was roughly $132 million and 454 positions and that the 2025-26 request would add $7,000,000 and two positions, bringing CalHR’s…

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