This bill requires each developmental disability regional center planning team to consider and provide information about the state's Employment First policy when developing an individual program plan for a transition-age youth or working-age adult. This includes providing options for integrated competitive employment and services and supports that can enable the participant to transition from school to work or obtain competitive integrated employment.

This bill establishes the Aging and Disability Resource Connection program, which provides information to consumers with disabilities and their families on available long-term services and supports at the local level.

This bill establishes an advisory committee to the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. The purpose of the advisory committee is creating an early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention competitive selection process to, among other things, expand the provision of high-quality, evidence-based early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention services (including supported education and employment).

This bill: 1. Requires the State Department of Developmental Services to increase service access and equity and reduce disparities in its Self-Determination Program (which gives participants and families greater choice in implementation of their individual program plan); 2. Establishes an Office of the Self-Determination Program Ombudsperson to assist consumers and their families in understanding their rights under the program; 3. Makes rate increases permanent for specified developmental services, including supported employment services; 4. Establishes incentive payments to service providers who help clients achieve certain employment outcomes (such as competitive integrated employment for a prescribed period of time); and 5. Requires the Department to establish a program to increase pathways to competitive integrated employment.

This bill encourages community college districts and other entities participating in the Strong Workforce Program to develop and support workforce development programs and pathways for young adults with autism and other developmental disabilities.

This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to assign a student identification number to individuals with exceptional needs for the purpose of evaluating special education programs and related services, including transition and work experience programs.

This resolution affirms that the state’s policies and procedures should ensure technology and information access for individuals with disabilities to the greatest extent possible, including to promote self-determination, help individuals engage in education and employment, and create new markets and employment opportunities.

This bill requires the State Department of Social Services to provide the eligibility and enrollment data for the California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) and CalFresh (implementation of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) programs to the State Department of Developmental Services for the purposes of monitoring and evaluating employment outcomes to determine the effectiveness of the state's Employment First policy.

This bill requires the California Workforce Investment Board to assist the Governor in helping individuals experiencing barriers to employment (including individuals with disabilities) achieve economic security and upward mobility by implementing policies that encourage the attainment of marketable skills relevant to current labor market trends.

This bill phases out subminimum wage for people with disabilities, through a multi-stakeholder process.

This bill authorizes counties to develop peer support specialist certification programs, which provide coaching and support to individuals with mental health care needs, including around self-sufficiency, self-advocacy and preparation for employment opportunities. Peer support specialists can engage in specialized curricula for transition-age youth.

This bill authorizes an increase in the number of consumers served by the Self-Determination Program, including residents in developmental centers who are moving to the community. The Self-Determination Program provides individuals with developmental disabilities and their families increased flexibility and choice and greater control over decisions, resources, services and supports to implement their individual program plan.

This bill requires federal funds to be used to maximize the ability of Self-Determination Program participants to direct their own lives. The Self-Determination Program provides individuals with developmental disabilities and their families increased flexibility and choice and greater control over decisions, resources, services and supports to implement their individual program plan.

This bill requires community college districts to maintain student equity plans in order to receive specific funding. As part of these plans, districts must conduct campus-based research on equity for students with disabilities (among other groups of students); establish goals for enhancing access to and completion of basic skills, career technical education and workforce training for various populations (including students with disabilities); and lay out how each college in the district will address any significant disparities in access or outcomes for those groups of students.