It is the intent of the Legislature in the enactment of this chapter to establish a grant program administered by the State Department of Social Services to provide support to existing local rape victim counseling centers and to encourage the establishment of such local centers.
Chapter 3.7Local Rape Victim Counseling Centers
Section § 1598
This law aims to create a grant program managed by the State Department of Social Services to support local rape victim counseling centers. It also seeks to promote the creation of new local centers to help rape victims.
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Section § 1598.1
This law mandates that the State Department of Social Services provides grants to local rape victim counseling centers. These centers must run a 24-hour phone service, offer in-person counseling during business hours, and adhere to other standards by an advisory committee's guidelines. The advisory committee sets the criteria for which centers can receive funding.
To be eligible for funding, centers must show they can use funds from various sources to supplement state funds. They must also aim to qualify for federal funding. Funds should be used to expand services rather than reduce funding from existing sources. Priority is given to centers near medical facilities. Centers need to keep detailed financial records of how funds are used.
The State Department of Social Services shall provide grants to proposed and existing local rape victim counseling centers. Such centers shall maintain a 24-hour telephone counseling service for rape victims, appropriate in-person counseling and referred service during normal business hours, and maintain other standards or services which shall be determined to be appropriate by the advisory committee established pursuant to Section 13836 of the Penal Code as grant conditions. The advisory committee shall identify the criteria to be utilized in awarding the grants provided by this chapter before any funds are allocated.
In order to be eligible for funding pursuant to this chapter, the centers shall demonstrate an ability to receive and make use of any funds available from governmental, voluntary, philanthropic, or other sources which may be used to augment any state funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter. Each center receiving funds pursuant to this chapter shall make every attempt to qualify for any available federal funding.
State funds provided to establish centers shall be utilized when possible, as determined by the advisory committee, to expand the program and shall not be expended to reduce fiscal support from other public or private sources. The centers shall maintain quarterly and final fiscal reports in a form to be prescribed by the advisory committee. In granting funds, the advisory committee shall give priority to centers which are operated in close proximity to medical treatment facilities.
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Section § 1598.5
This law section allocated $100,000 from California’s General Fund to the State Department of Social Services for the 1978–79 fiscal year.
Only 5% of this amount could be used for administering the grant program. After that fiscal year, the grant program would be funded through the usual budget process. If formed, the Violent Crime Victim Assistance Commission would manage these funds.
The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Social Services for expenditure during the 1978–79 fiscal year. Only 5 percent of such funds shall be used for the state administration of the grant program. After the 1978–79 fiscal year, the grant program provided pursuant to Section 1598.1 shall be funded through the regular budgetary process. The funds shall be administered through the Violent Crime Victim Assistance Commission, if created.
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