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Assembly committee advances bill to expand children's crisis continuum pilot to include alternative residential models
Summary
The Assembly Human Services Committee voted to send AB 1579 to appropriations after supporters said the bill would let counties use clinically comparable residential models where a specialized children's crisis residential program has been infeasible; the Youth Law Center and others warned it risks substituting more restrictive facilities for small crisis residential settings.
The Assembly Human Services Committee on Thursday voted to advance AB 1579, a bill that would expand California's Children's Crisis Continuum pilot to allow counties and providers to use CDSS‑approved, functionally equivalent residential options beyond the current children's crisis residential program model.
Author Samuel Ramos told the committee the pilot's original residential licensing type has proven financially and operationally unsustainable across the state and that the bill provides counties flexibility to implement short‑term residential treatment and psychiatric residential treatment facilities where…
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