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"content": "\u003cp>Three years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">signed legislation mandating that high schools offer ethnic studies\u003c/a> “upon appropriation,” starting in 2025–26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, those two words — upon appropriation — loom large. The deadline to offer a semester of ethnic studies in 2025–26 is only seven months away, and requiring the course for graduation is due to begin with the graduating class of 2029–30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2022, the California Department of Finance has taken the position that there has been no appropriation to implement the course, and some other legislators agree — no money, no requirement to develop or offer classes. As a result, school districts might conclude that the law’s “guardrails,” intended to prevent bias, bigotry, and discrimination from seeping into instruction, could be ignored. However, the guardrails language was copied from existing state education statutes (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=220.&lawCode=EDC\">Education Code 220\u003c/a>), which would still prevail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of funding is creating uncertainty about the future of ethnic studies and suspense about whether Newsom will deliver the money next month when he proposes his 2025–26 budget — and, as importantly, whether he will condition funding on amendments to the law (Assembly Bill 101), including those championed by the Jewish Legislative Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come at this with a fresh set of eyes. It’s pretty clear that the law only really takes effect if there is funding for this during the budgetary process. There has been no budget allocated for that,” said Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego), who was elected to the Legislature in 2022 and chairs the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance while serving on the Assembly Budget and Education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that doesn’t mean that that won’t happen in the budget that’s to be released in January, which then funds the 2025–26 school year, which is when this would take effect,” he said. “I would expect it would” be funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Options ‘upon appropriation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is no statutory definition of “upon appropriation,” which is sometimes inserted in bills requiring significant funding. That leaves the governor and Legislature several options, according to legislative staff. One would be a significant one-time investment with dedicated funding in subsequent years. Another would be to eliminate “upon appropriation” by amending the bill — although that wouldn’t eliminate the state’s obligation to fund the mandate. The Legislature could then leave it to the Commission on State Mandates to decide how much should be reimbursed annually. Districts have complained that the commission tends to lowball reimbursements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advisers to and spokespeople for Newsom refused to discuss the unfunded mandate or what to expect in January, and leaders of one of the strongest advocates of ethnic studies, the controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.liberatedethnicstudies.org/\">Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium\u003c/a>, aren’t answering requests for comment. An administrator of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcoe.net/educators/curriculum-instruction/ethnic-studies\">San Diego County Office of Education\u003c/a>, which is coordinating state grants to develop ethnic studies course curriculums, also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finance Dept. states its position\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Newsom referred EdSource to the Department of Finance, which, in turn, pointed to a link to a Feb. 22, 2022, webcast of the Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance hearing (\u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20220222\">\u003cem>watch between 2:57 to 3:07\u003c/em>\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, then-Assemblymember Kevin McCarthy (D-Sacramento), a strong proponent of ethnic studies, noted that the 2021–22 state budget included $50 million that would be disbursed to school districts to “launch this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do we think that’s the adequate amount we need to make sure we have a successful ethnic studies requirement for high schools throughout California?” he asked state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Alexander, representing the Department of Finance, clarified that the $50 million was one-time funding for districts to create, not implement, the graduation mandate. “Nor,” she added, “does the Finance Department believe the $50 million would be sufficient, should the mandate progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that we have some debate about that, and I’m not sure why you need an appropriation because you’re going to have that class taught in a high school anyway, and you’ll have a teacher teaching that class as opposed to another class,” McCarthy responded. “Just simple mathematics; I don’t get it yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning to Mike Torres, director of the curriculum frameworks division of the California Department of Education, McCarthy asked, “Do we think that we need any other resources? On the lead-up to ethnic studies throughout California?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres answered, “Gearing up for this requirement is likely to be a multi-year process with costs exceeding $50 million statewide (for districts) to make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an analysis of the financial impact of AB 101, the Finance Department estimated the implementation cost of ethnic studies at $272 million. Alvares said that the 2021 ballpark estimate would need to be recalculated, and he wouldn’t hazard a guess of the cost other than to say it would be well over $100 million annually to reimburse districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jewish caucus finds an ally in Newsom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite uncertainty over funding, intense work continues on developing ethnic studies curricula and piloting courses throughout the state. This week, the California Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://camodelcurricula.ucdavis.edu/about\">launched a website\u003c/a> dedicated to Southeast Asian ethnic studies, including separate K–12 lesson plans exploring Vietnamese, Cambodian and Hmong histories and experiences. Chapters on Native American studies are planned for next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site was developed by the county education offices in Orange, Humboldt and San Diego counties, with $14 million in state funding from the 2021–22 budget. San Diego County has also hosted multiple series of ethnic studies webinars for teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the spread of the liberated ethnic studies curriculum developed as an alternative to the state’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Framework has escalated tensions between its creator and promoter, the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium and the Jewish Legislative Caucus. The “liberated” version has been a focus of several lawsuits (see \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/lawsuits-charge-antisemitism-civil-rights-violations-at-charter-school-and-high-school-district/722503\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/judge-rejects-lawsuit-over-liberated-ethnic-studies-classes-in-lausd/723380\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/04/12/berkeley-unified-israel-palestine-curriculum-lawsuit-deborah-project\">here\u003c/a>) brought by Jewish families and supportive law firms charging that its one-sided, ideological opposition to the state of Israel and its ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza has fostered antisemitism in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say that “liberated” ethnic studies view race relations in America as a continuing struggle against white supremacy and its oppression of people of color. It stresses the importance for students to challenge capitalism and the forces of imperialism, including Israel, which the curriculum calls a modern outpost of “settler colonialism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the urging of the Legislative Jewish Caucus, the Legislature wrote into AB 101 that school districts should not use unadopted portions of earlier drafts of the model curriculum — an oblique reference to the elements of the liberated curriculum that were excised from the first draft. Advocates of liberated ethnic studies charged that the clause and other “guardrails” seek to squelch their free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Jewish caucus has found an ally in Newsom. In August 2023, Brooks Allen, executive director of the State Board of Education and a Newsom adviser, wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8.23.23-Ethnic-Studies-Letter.pdf\">a memo to school districts (PDF)\u003c/a>, “We have been advised, however, that some vendors are offering materials that may not meet the requirements of AB 101, particularly the second requirement (not reflecting or promoting any bias, bigotry, or discrimination), an important guardrail highlighted when the bill was signed. Accordingly, before any curriculum or instructional materials for ethnic studies courses are selected, we strongly encourage you to closely scrutinize them to ensure that they meet the above requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom cites the need to include lessons about Jewish Americans in the ethnic studies curriculum in his 17-page \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Golden-State-Plan-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf\">Golden State Plan to Combat Antisemitism (PDF)\u003c/a>, issued in April 2024. It also includes, “The Governor will work with the Jewish Caucus and Legislature to pursue legislation strengthening the guardrails established by AB 101 to ensure all ethnic studies courses are free from bias, bigotry, and discriminatory content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Second attempt at tighter guardrails\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That is the intent of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2918\">Assembly Bill 2918\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymembers Rick Zbur (D-Los Angeles) and Dawn Addis (D-Morro Bay). Introduced late in the last legislative session, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/jewish-legislators-not-giving-up-on-more-guardrails-on-ethnic-studies/717999\">it ran aground amid opposition\u003c/a> from the liberated consortium and the California Teachers Association, as well as criticism that it short-circuited the full legislative process. Addis and Zbur promised to start from scratch and confer with opponents and Latino, Black, and Asian legislative caucuses.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11993071,news_12009426,news_12003861\"]The bill called for strengthening vague wording of the guardrails as well as requirements that more opportunities for the public to weigh in on the development of local ethnic studies courses be created before a final vote for adoption by school boards. This has not been the case in some districts and is central to a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/liberated-ethnic-studies-course-challenged-amid-allegations-of-antisemitism/718347\">lawsuit against Santa Ana Unified\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has not given any sign of whether he would treat funding and amending AB 101 separately or use funding as leverage for added protections. Zbur, a member of the Jewish caucus, said he’s not calling for that approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want ethnic studies to move forward. The entire Jewish caucus supported ethnic studies when it came up (for a vote). We (he and Addis) don’t view this in a context of leverage,” he said. “We actually have faith that the education unions and our colleagues want to ensure that we meet the goals of ethnic studies in a manner that’s appropriate for all students, including Jewish students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Alvarez, who said he is “fully supportive of ensuring that the guardrails exist from the Jewish caucus perspective,” added that it’s appropriate to revise AB 101 while discussing how to fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an opportunity to ensure we get this right,” he said. “And so as we go forward and implement, we need to make sure that we do so in the best way possible. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">signed legislation mandating that high schools offer ethnic studies\u003c/a> “upon appropriation,” starting in 2025–26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, those two words — upon appropriation — loom large. The deadline to offer a semester of ethnic studies in 2025–26 is only seven months away, and requiring the course for graduation is due to begin with the graduating class of 2029–30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2022, the California Department of Finance has taken the position that there has been no appropriation to implement the course, and some other legislators agree — no money, no requirement to develop or offer classes. As a result, school districts might conclude that the law’s “guardrails,” intended to prevent bias, bigotry, and discrimination from seeping into instruction, could be ignored. However, the guardrails language was copied from existing state education statutes (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=220.&lawCode=EDC\">Education Code 220\u003c/a>), which would still prevail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of funding is creating uncertainty about the future of ethnic studies and suspense about whether Newsom will deliver the money next month when he proposes his 2025–26 budget — and, as importantly, whether he will condition funding on amendments to the law (Assembly Bill 101), including those championed by the Jewish Legislative Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come at this with a fresh set of eyes. It’s pretty clear that the law only really takes effect if there is funding for this during the budgetary process. There has been no budget allocated for that,” said Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego), who was elected to the Legislature in 2022 and chairs the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance while serving on the Assembly Budget and Education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that doesn’t mean that that won’t happen in the budget that’s to be released in January, which then funds the 2025–26 school year, which is when this would take effect,” he said. “I would expect it would” be funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Options ‘upon appropriation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is no statutory definition of “upon appropriation,” which is sometimes inserted in bills requiring significant funding. That leaves the governor and Legislature several options, according to legislative staff. One would be a significant one-time investment with dedicated funding in subsequent years. Another would be to eliminate “upon appropriation” by amending the bill — although that wouldn’t eliminate the state’s obligation to fund the mandate. The Legislature could then leave it to the Commission on State Mandates to decide how much should be reimbursed annually. Districts have complained that the commission tends to lowball reimbursements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advisers to and spokespeople for Newsom refused to discuss the unfunded mandate or what to expect in January, and leaders of one of the strongest advocates of ethnic studies, the controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.liberatedethnicstudies.org/\">Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium\u003c/a>, aren’t answering requests for comment. An administrator of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcoe.net/educators/curriculum-instruction/ethnic-studies\">San Diego County Office of Education\u003c/a>, which is coordinating state grants to develop ethnic studies course curriculums, also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finance Dept. states its position\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Newsom referred EdSource to the Department of Finance, which, in turn, pointed to a link to a Feb. 22, 2022, webcast of the Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance hearing (\u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20220222\">\u003cem>watch between 2:57 to 3:07\u003c/em>\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, then-Assemblymember Kevin McCarthy (D-Sacramento), a strong proponent of ethnic studies, noted that the 2021–22 state budget included $50 million that would be disbursed to school districts to “launch this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do we think that’s the adequate amount we need to make sure we have a successful ethnic studies requirement for high schools throughout California?” he asked state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Alexander, representing the Department of Finance, clarified that the $50 million was one-time funding for districts to create, not implement, the graduation mandate. “Nor,” she added, “does the Finance Department believe the $50 million would be sufficient, should the mandate progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that we have some debate about that, and I’m not sure why you need an appropriation because you’re going to have that class taught in a high school anyway, and you’ll have a teacher teaching that class as opposed to another class,” McCarthy responded. “Just simple mathematics; I don’t get it yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning to Mike Torres, director of the curriculum frameworks division of the California Department of Education, McCarthy asked, “Do we think that we need any other resources? On the lead-up to ethnic studies throughout California?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres answered, “Gearing up for this requirement is likely to be a multi-year process with costs exceeding $50 million statewide (for districts) to make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an analysis of the financial impact of AB 101, the Finance Department estimated the implementation cost of ethnic studies at $272 million. Alvares said that the 2021 ballpark estimate would need to be recalculated, and he wouldn’t hazard a guess of the cost other than to say it would be well over $100 million annually to reimburse districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jewish caucus finds an ally in Newsom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite uncertainty over funding, intense work continues on developing ethnic studies curricula and piloting courses throughout the state. This week, the California Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://camodelcurricula.ucdavis.edu/about\">launched a website\u003c/a> dedicated to Southeast Asian ethnic studies, including separate K–12 lesson plans exploring Vietnamese, Cambodian and Hmong histories and experiences. Chapters on Native American studies are planned for next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site was developed by the county education offices in Orange, Humboldt and San Diego counties, with $14 million in state funding from the 2021–22 budget. San Diego County has also hosted multiple series of ethnic studies webinars for teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the spread of the liberated ethnic studies curriculum developed as an alternative to the state’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Framework has escalated tensions between its creator and promoter, the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium and the Jewish Legislative Caucus. The “liberated” version has been a focus of several lawsuits (see \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/lawsuits-charge-antisemitism-civil-rights-violations-at-charter-school-and-high-school-district/722503\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/judge-rejects-lawsuit-over-liberated-ethnic-studies-classes-in-lausd/723380\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/04/12/berkeley-unified-israel-palestine-curriculum-lawsuit-deborah-project\">here\u003c/a>) brought by Jewish families and supportive law firms charging that its one-sided, ideological opposition to the state of Israel and its ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza has fostered antisemitism in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say that “liberated” ethnic studies view race relations in America as a continuing struggle against white supremacy and its oppression of people of color. It stresses the importance for students to challenge capitalism and the forces of imperialism, including Israel, which the curriculum calls a modern outpost of “settler colonialism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the urging of the Legislative Jewish Caucus, the Legislature wrote into AB 101 that school districts should not use unadopted portions of earlier drafts of the model curriculum — an oblique reference to the elements of the liberated curriculum that were excised from the first draft. Advocates of liberated ethnic studies charged that the clause and other “guardrails” seek to squelch their free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Jewish caucus has found an ally in Newsom. In August 2023, Brooks Allen, executive director of the State Board of Education and a Newsom adviser, wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8.23.23-Ethnic-Studies-Letter.pdf\">a memo to school districts (PDF)\u003c/a>, “We have been advised, however, that some vendors are offering materials that may not meet the requirements of AB 101, particularly the second requirement (not reflecting or promoting any bias, bigotry, or discrimination), an important guardrail highlighted when the bill was signed. Accordingly, before any curriculum or instructional materials for ethnic studies courses are selected, we strongly encourage you to closely scrutinize them to ensure that they meet the above requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom cites the need to include lessons about Jewish Americans in the ethnic studies curriculum in his 17-page \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Golden-State-Plan-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf\">Golden State Plan to Combat Antisemitism (PDF)\u003c/a>, issued in April 2024. It also includes, “The Governor will work with the Jewish Caucus and Legislature to pursue legislation strengthening the guardrails established by AB 101 to ensure all ethnic studies courses are free from bias, bigotry, and discriminatory content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Second attempt at tighter guardrails\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That is the intent of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2918\">Assembly Bill 2918\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymembers Rick Zbur (D-Los Angeles) and Dawn Addis (D-Morro Bay). Introduced late in the last legislative session, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/jewish-legislators-not-giving-up-on-more-guardrails-on-ethnic-studies/717999\">it ran aground amid opposition\u003c/a> from the liberated consortium and the California Teachers Association, as well as criticism that it short-circuited the full legislative process. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a hopeful sign for California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-you\">beleaguered insurance market\u003c/a>, Farmers Insurance said this week that it would reopen some closed lines of coverage and start writing more homeowners policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning Saturday, the state’s second-largest homeowners insurance carrier \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.farmers.com/2024-12-11-Recognizing-an-Improved-Insurance-Marketplace-in-California,-Farmers-Insurance-R-to-Expand-Its-Coverage-Options-in-the-State\">said it will resume offering\u003c/a> several types of coverage that have been closed to new customers in California for more than a year, including renters and condominium insurance. It will also bump up the number of new homeowners insurance policies it accepts each month from 7,000 to 9,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance experts said the move signals a reversal of the yearslong trend of insurers offering less and less coverage in California following catastrophic wildfires and spikes in inflation. It comes as insurance companies are anticipating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014632/california-insurance-regulators-aim-ease-coverage-crisis-new-rules\">an overhaul of state regulations\u003c/a>, known as the Sustainable Insurance Strategy, to be implemented any day now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance broker and \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insurance-hour-with-karl-susman/id1711713889\">podcast host\u003c/a> Karl Susman called it a “good-faith gesture on Farmers’ part” given the impending regulatory changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that what we’re going to see is every other carrier start following suit,” Susman said. “And at some point — I would like to think by the middle of next year — we won’t have quotas per se at all. We’ll just have the free and open market again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the new regulations, California will require insurers to increase the writing of comprehensive policies in “wildfire-distressed” areas and account for mitigation steps taken by homeowners, businesses and communities. In exchange, companies will be allowed to use forward-looking risk modeling that takes into account the effects of climate change when they are setting rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017695 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_3372_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Soller, a spokesperson for the California Department of Insurance, said Farmers’ move was a positive step forward and “a clear sign that our reforms are having an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement from Farmers explicitly endorses the new regulations, which are awaiting final approval by the state Office of Administrative Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farmers Insurance has decided to take these steps to increase coverage availability for California consumers because we recognize that the state’s insurance marketplace has indeed improved,” Behram Dinshaw, president of personal lines for Farmers Insurance, said in a statement. “In addition, with the impending implementation of Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s Sustainable Insurance Strategy in the coming year, we want to be well-positioned to provide even more coverage options to residents in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large carriers, including Allstate and State Farm, have dramatically \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/nx-s1-5015738/california-hopes-to-lure-insurance-companies-back-with-extreme-regulation-overhaul\">pulled back from offering new\u003c/a> or renewed coverage in California, seeking to limit their financial liability in a market with regulations they considered outdated and a threat to their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Farmers’ announcement, Susman said he’s also seeing other insurance companies slowly open up the taps and offer more coverage in California again, noting that Mercury Insurance is “aggressively writing property insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a lot of the less-known carriers that you might not recognize the names of, they’ve been writing fairly aggressively in California. They’re raising the limits of coverage that they were willing to take,” Susman said. “Maybe they were only taking coverage up to $1 million, and now they’re a million and a half or $2 million. So definitely … the tide is already turning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unveiled a new plan to help solve the homelessness crisis: It began using health care providers, funded through Medi-Cal, to help people get and stay housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with President-Elect Donald Trump about to take office, some health care organizations, homeless service providers and other stakeholders throughout California worry the program may fall apart just as it’s starting to make a difference. It’s one of many potential shake ups they’re bracing for as they prepare for a new federal administration unlikely to see eye to eye with the Golden State on many of its social welfare policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes us all very nervous,” said John Baackes, outgoing CEO of Medi-Cal provider L.A. Care Health Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalAIM, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">launched in 2022\u003c/a>, is an expansion of Medi-Cal that allows health insurance to pay for certain things that aren’t considered traditional medical care — such as services to help homeless Californians find and keep housing. Proponents say it’s brought a much-needed infusion of money into the state’s overburdened homeless services system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, because states aren’t typically allowed to spend Medicaid dollars on those types of services, California had to get special permission from the federal government. That permission, in the form of two waivers, expires at the end of 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the fate of CalAIM rests in the hands of the Trump administration, which can decide whether to renew the program, scale it back or change it. Trump has yet to give any indication of what he would do (or even whether this specific California program is on his radar) and most stakeholders agree any changes he makes probably wouldn’t come until 2026. But the uncertainty is compounding the stress on already overburdened homeless service providers, who routinely receive \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/07/california-homeless-services/\">short-term, one-time grants\u003c/a> instead of permanent funding, making it difficult to plan for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalAIM has been one of the most important and, I think, under-appreciated policies of the Newsom administration to try to better connect our health system and our housing system,” said Tommy Newman, vice president of public affairs for United Way of Greater Los Angeles. “And the risk of going backwards on that is scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration wouldn’t specify what, if anything, it is doing to safeguard CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California will continue to work collaboratively with our federal partners to ensure that families in our state are healthy and our communities are vibrant places to live and work,” Anthony Cava, spokesperson for the Department of Health Care Services, said in a statement. “While we don’t typically speculate on the potential impacts of a new federal administration, we remain committed to protecting Californian’s access to the critical services and programs they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is CalAIM?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The goal of CalAIM is to address factors known as “social determinants of health” for low-income Californians. It’s hard to stay healthy when you don’t have access to basic necessities, such as housing and nutritious food, for example. Ultimately, it’s supposed to save the state and the feds money by helping people avoid expensive emergency room visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, more than 68,600 Californians used the three services known as the “housing trio” under CalAIM. These are services designed to help them find housing, stay housed or pay for move-in costs such as security deposits and first and last month’s rent, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/a07f998dfefa497fbd7613981e4f6117?item=5\">state data\u003c/a> available. Only CalAIM’s “medically tailored meals” service (which helps people with conditions such as diabetes access food that meets their dietary needs) was nearly as popular, with nearly 62,700 users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalAIM provides a total of 14 of these services, or “community supports,” which also include medical respite care for people who recently left the hospital, asthma remediation — think air filters, dehumidifiers, mold removal — and sobering centers. CalAIM also provides something called “enhanced care management,” which pairs Medi-Cal members with an intensive case manager who can help them access everything from a doctor to a dentist to a social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-time grants, doled out to health plans as an incentive for them to ramp up CalAIM services, also helped fund the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/07/calaim-bakersfield-housing/\">construction of new affordable housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abode Services — a nonprofit that provides shelter, housing and other aid for unhoused people across seven Bay Area counties — serves more than 1,000 Californians through CalAIM, said CEO Vivian Wan. In Napa County, Abode uses CalAIM to provide case management services to help people move from homeless encampments into shelter and housing. In Santa Cruz County, Abode uses CalAIM funds to replace the federal COVID-19 homelessness funds that poured in during the pandemic but have since dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abode and other nonprofits also use CalAIM funds to fill an important gap often left by other grants: services for formerly homeless people living in subsidized housing. State programs such as Homekey offer money to buy or build homeless housing, and vouchers pay for tenants’ rent, but there’s often nothing left to fund the case management, counseling and more that’s crucial to help people with physical and mental health conditions, or addictions — the people Newsom has made a priority in his effort to clear encampments — hold onto their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I shudder to think what would happen if we had all of the mandates from our development side of supporting people through coordinated entry, taking really vulnerable people, and we then reduced the services down to bare bones,” Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What could Trump do to CalAIM?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to speculate about what the Trump administration will do with CalAIM. Celebrity physician \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/19/dr-oz-cms-administrator-trump-00189456\">Dr. Mehmet Oz\u003c/a>, Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has no prior experience with the agency and, therefore, no track record that could provide clues as to how he will act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes likely would be felt at the end of 2026, when California attempts to renew its CalAIM waivers. But it’s not unheard of for a president to terminate a waiver early. After President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/upshot/biden-medicaid-reversing-trump.html\">pulled waivers\u003c/a>, authorized by Trump, that had allowed states to require Medicaid recipients to prove they were working or unable to work. But that was an extreme situation, as multiple courts had already shot down those waivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like CalAIM is going away tomorrow, or even in January,” said Sharon Rapport, director of California state policy for the Corporation for Supportive Housing. “But after that, I think that’s where the questions are: What could happen then? And the fact that it’s California, and not Trump’s favorite state, I think makes people worried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans to expand future coverage also could be at risk. Health plans are rolling out \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/pharmacy/Documents/CalAIM-JI-Policy-and-Operations-Guide-FINAL-October-2023-updated.pdf\">new frameworks\u003c/a> under CalAIM to offer health care to people in jail and prison up to 90 days before they are released. California also has applied to amend one of its federal waivers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Documents/MCQMD/Transitional-Rent-Concept-Paper-08222024.pdf\">add rental assistance\u003c/a> to the services CalAIM offers. If that’s approved, the state would be allowed to use Medi-Cal to pay for up to six months of rent for homeless and at-risk people who are leaving settings such as jail, prison, the hospital, or an in-patient mental health or substance abuse facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://manhattan.institute/article/the-overblown-social-determinants-of-health\">recent article\u003c/a> by conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute questions the use of health care funds to pay for social services — a potential bellwether that suggests the new administration might not be supportive of programs like CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if a social welfare program is a well-intentioned and wise idea, that does not make it health care,” wrote Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Pope. “Health care costs will not be greatly reduced by expanding the meaning of health care to cover every social service; nor would doing so distribute nonmedical assistance to those who need it most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration also could change the waivers before renewing them, forcing California to pare down the services CalAIM offers, or add work requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, as well as the Republican-controlled Congress, are likely to support requiring Medicaid recipients to prove they are either working or are unable to work. The last time he was in office, Trump approved 13 state waivers that included work requirements before the Biden administration later withdrew them. \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a>, a conservative governing blueprint written by the Heritage Foundation, also prioritizes work requirements.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12013909,news_12013983,news_12014057\"]Work requirements historically lead to people, especially low-income people and people of color, losing benefits, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/expanding-work-requirements-would-make-it-harder-for-people-to-meet\">research\u003c/a> by the progressive think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. It found many recipients are working but have a hard time providing the necessary paperwork to prove it, while others can’t work due to obligations as full-time caregivers or a lack of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Congress also could impose more sweeping cuts to Medicaid as a whole, which could affect California’s ability to continue programs such as CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are ways California could safeguard at least some of its CalAIM services, by baking them into Medi-Cal as permanent benefits, Rapport said. Her organization is pushing for the state to do that with CalAIM’s three housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at L.A. Care already are thinking about how they could continue offering CalAIM services to their members if the Trump administration cuts the program. It would require some significant rearranging of funds, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sameer Amin said. His organization has nearly 16,800 people enrolled in CalAIM services to help them find and keep housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern is that the housing crisis in LA County is not something that happened overnight, and it’s not something that can be corrected overnight,” he said. “It really requires a sustained effort over the course of years and a significant amount of investment. And if we don’t do the investment that we need to do, if we have to reprioritize away from some of these programs, my concern is that these folks are not going to get the health care that they need because they are not housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters staff writer Kristen Hwang contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But the uncertainty is compounding the stress on already overburdened homeless service providers, who routinely receive \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/07/california-homeless-services/\">short-term, one-time grants\u003c/a> instead of permanent funding, making it difficult to plan for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalAIM has been one of the most important and, I think, under-appreciated policies of the Newsom administration to try to better connect our health system and our housing system,” said Tommy Newman, vice president of public affairs for United Way of Greater Los Angeles. “And the risk of going backwards on that is scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration wouldn’t specify what, if anything, it is doing to safeguard CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California will continue to work collaboratively with our federal partners to ensure that families in our state are healthy and our communities are vibrant places to live and work,” Anthony Cava, spokesperson for the Department of Health Care Services, said in a statement. “While we don’t typically speculate on the potential impacts of a new federal administration, we remain committed to protecting Californian’s access to the critical services and programs they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is CalAIM?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The goal of CalAIM is to address factors known as “social determinants of health” for low-income Californians. It’s hard to stay healthy when you don’t have access to basic necessities, such as housing and nutritious food, for example. Ultimately, it’s supposed to save the state and the feds money by helping people avoid expensive emergency room visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, more than 68,600 Californians used the three services known as the “housing trio” under CalAIM. These are services designed to help them find housing, stay housed or pay for move-in costs such as security deposits and first and last month’s rent, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/a07f998dfefa497fbd7613981e4f6117?item=5\">state data\u003c/a> available. Only CalAIM’s “medically tailored meals” service (which helps people with conditions such as diabetes access food that meets their dietary needs) was nearly as popular, with nearly 62,700 users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalAIM provides a total of 14 of these services, or “community supports,” which also include medical respite care for people who recently left the hospital, asthma remediation — think air filters, dehumidifiers, mold removal — and sobering centers. CalAIM also provides something called “enhanced care management,” which pairs Medi-Cal members with an intensive case manager who can help them access everything from a doctor to a dentist to a social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-time grants, doled out to health plans as an incentive for them to ramp up CalAIM services, also helped fund the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/07/calaim-bakersfield-housing/\">construction of new affordable housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abode Services — a nonprofit that provides shelter, housing and other aid for unhoused people across seven Bay Area counties — serves more than 1,000 Californians through CalAIM, said CEO Vivian Wan. In Napa County, Abode uses CalAIM to provide case management services to help people move from homeless encampments into shelter and housing. In Santa Cruz County, Abode uses CalAIM funds to replace the federal COVID-19 homelessness funds that poured in during the pandemic but have since dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abode and other nonprofits also use CalAIM funds to fill an important gap often left by other grants: services for formerly homeless people living in subsidized housing. State programs such as Homekey offer money to buy or build homeless housing, and vouchers pay for tenants’ rent, but there’s often nothing left to fund the case management, counseling and more that’s crucial to help people with physical and mental health conditions, or addictions — the people Newsom has made a priority in his effort to clear encampments — hold onto their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I shudder to think what would happen if we had all of the mandates from our development side of supporting people through coordinated entry, taking really vulnerable people, and we then reduced the services down to bare bones,” Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What could Trump do to CalAIM?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to speculate about what the Trump administration will do with CalAIM. Celebrity physician \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/19/dr-oz-cms-administrator-trump-00189456\">Dr. Mehmet Oz\u003c/a>, Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has no prior experience with the agency and, therefore, no track record that could provide clues as to how he will act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes likely would be felt at the end of 2026, when California attempts to renew its CalAIM waivers. But it’s not unheard of for a president to terminate a waiver early. After President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/upshot/biden-medicaid-reversing-trump.html\">pulled waivers\u003c/a>, authorized by Trump, that had allowed states to require Medicaid recipients to prove they were working or unable to work. But that was an extreme situation, as multiple courts had already shot down those waivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like CalAIM is going away tomorrow, or even in January,” said Sharon Rapport, director of California state policy for the Corporation for Supportive Housing. “But after that, I think that’s where the questions are: What could happen then? And the fact that it’s California, and not Trump’s favorite state, I think makes people worried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans to expand future coverage also could be at risk. Health plans are rolling out \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/pharmacy/Documents/CalAIM-JI-Policy-and-Operations-Guide-FINAL-October-2023-updated.pdf\">new frameworks\u003c/a> under CalAIM to offer health care to people in jail and prison up to 90 days before they are released. 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If that’s approved, the state would be allowed to use Medi-Cal to pay for up to six months of rent for homeless and at-risk people who are leaving settings such as jail, prison, the hospital, or an in-patient mental health or substance abuse facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://manhattan.institute/article/the-overblown-social-determinants-of-health\">recent article\u003c/a> by conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute questions the use of health care funds to pay for social services — a potential bellwether that suggests the new administration might not be supportive of programs like CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if a social welfare program is a well-intentioned and wise idea, that does not make it health care,” wrote Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Pope. “Health care costs will not be greatly reduced by expanding the meaning of health care to cover every social service; nor would doing so distribute nonmedical assistance to those who need it most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration also could change the waivers before renewing them, forcing California to pare down the services CalAIM offers, or add work requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, as well as the Republican-controlled Congress, are likely to support requiring Medicaid recipients to prove they are either working or are unable to work. The last time he was in office, Trump approved 13 state waivers that included work requirements before the Biden administration later withdrew them. \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a>, a conservative governing blueprint written by the Heritage Foundation, also prioritizes work requirements.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Work requirements historically lead to people, especially low-income people and people of color, losing benefits, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/expanding-work-requirements-would-make-it-harder-for-people-to-meet\">research\u003c/a> by the progressive think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. It found many recipients are working but have a hard time providing the necessary paperwork to prove it, while others can’t work due to obligations as full-time caregivers or a lack of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Congress also could impose more sweeping cuts to Medicaid as a whole, which could affect California’s ability to continue programs such as CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are ways California could safeguard at least some of its CalAIM services, by baking them into Medi-Cal as permanent benefits, Rapport said. Her organization is pushing for the state to do that with CalAIM’s three housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at L.A. Care already are thinking about how they could continue offering CalAIM services to their members if the Trump administration cuts the program. It would require some significant rearranging of funds, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sameer Amin said. His organization has nearly 16,800 people enrolled in CalAIM services to help them find and keep housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern is that the housing crisis in LA County is not something that happened overnight, and it’s not something that can be corrected overnight,” he said. “It really requires a sustained effort over the course of years and a significant amount of investment. And if we don’t do the investment that we need to do, if we have to reprioritize away from some of these programs, my concern is that these folks are not going to get the health care that they need because they are not housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters staff writer Kristen Hwang contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The renovations are done. Diaper changing tables and cribs are in place. Teachers are hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of preschools and child care centers across California are just waiting for the licenses they need to care for infants and toddlers, but a change in state fire regulations has disrupted their operations and forced them to turn away or delay enrolling thousands of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already have a shortage of infant and toddler care. This just exasperates it,” said Stacey Scarborough, director of an Early Head Start program for Venice Family Clinic, a health care and social service organization in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her agency had almost finished converting the ground floor of a homeless family shelter into an Early Head Start center when she heard about \u003ca href=\"https://codes.iccsafe.org/s/CABC2022P1/chapter-3-occupancy-classification-and-use/CABC2022P1-Ch03-Sec305.2\">an updated state building code\u003c/a>, limiting five babies and toddlers per classroom unless the child care facility has a sprinkler system, fire walls and other fire safety equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Architects and contractors didn’t know they had to install sprinklers, which meant Scarborough would need to spend more time and money to make the upgrade — or lower enrollment and staff and risk losing her federal grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hits everything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulation went into effect in 2023, but a lack of communication by state regulators left child care centers in the dark. They found out about it earlier this year when they applied for licenses to care for children under 3 and failed to obtain fire clearance. The rule change comes at a time when many child care centers are seeking to serve more younger kids as they lose 3- and 4-year-olds to California’s expansion of transitional kindergarten and other public preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reconfigure their operations, centers have to meet a different set of health and safety regulations for infant and toddler care, including adhering to a strict ratio of one adult for up to four children. Scarborough planned on grouping eight infants and toddlers in a classroom with two teachers. She said the new building code limiting a classroom to five didn’t align with licensing rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of a random number that didn’t make sense because we’re already set up for eight,” Scarborough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire officials said the updated building code conforms to international standards and that it makes sense to place strict limits on the number of infants and toddlers allowed in a room because they can’t evacuate on their own during an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re non-ambulatory, as we call them, and so we add extra levels of safety precautions to add more time,” Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berlant acknowledged a “huge lack of communication of the rollout of the code.” The rule applies to new facilities, he said, but many local fire inspectors assumed that child care centers applying for a new license also had to comply with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>While the fire code explicitly states that these requirements are not retroactive — they’re only for new facilities — many [child care centers] were going and getting this new license type and they were selecting the boxes, saying they’re a new license,” he said. “They \u003cem>were\u003c/em> a new license, but they weren’t a new facility. And so that created a lot of confusion with local fire marshals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The toddler room at Kidango Eary Care & Education in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates pushed back against the updated code and criticized regulators for failing to consult with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We operate in terms of ratios. So as long as we have enough adults per kiddo, we can get those kiddos out of the building,” said Melanee Cottril, executive director of Head Start California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centers are required to have cribs on wheels so they can evacuate babies during emergencies, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her association, along with several other child care organizations, surveyed 320 providers across the state in August and 34% said they responded to the code change by closing newly renovated classrooms, reducing slots for infants and toddlers or seeking estimates for fire sprinklers so they could salvage their plans. The survey estimated that more than 2,250 infants and toddlers lost or could lose access to center-based care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure from child care advocates, lawmakers passed a bill in September that gives providers a break until the Office of the State Fire Marshal and the California Department of Social Services, which oversees child care licensing, come up with new occupancy standards for child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both departments \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CCLD/PINs/2024/CCP/PIN%2024-13.1%20AB%20176.pdf\">issued notices about the change (PDF)\u003c/a>, but \u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/osfm-website/resources/information-bulletins/2024-bulletins/november-2024/24012-child-care-centers--occupancy-classification-and-use-updated.pdf?rev=01a30f5a765847adad2f7ba670f3ddd6&hash=7F053EC54844BBD6D5909F850D11C21B\">the news\u003c/a> is still trickling to local fire inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a child care provider reached out to a Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District inspector to clarify the rules and was told by email that if she wanted to open an infant care room in her preschool, the whole building would need fire sprinklers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another provider in Sacramento said she had enough indoor and outdoor space to enroll more infants and toddlers but canceled her plans when she got a $1 million estimate to add sprinklers and other plumbing to increase water pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Child care is a low-margin business. None of us are in this to make money, and trying to dig your way out of a million-dollar upfront debt was a deal-breaker for us,” said Francesca Winn, co-owner of Acorn to Oak nursery and preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said roughly 1,000 families are on her waitlist for child care, and she’s disappointed she couldn’t help more of them.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12016440,news_12009791,news_12014476\"]Margarita Saucedo, the director of program development for Kidango, a subsidized child care provider in the South Bay and East Bay, said a fire inspector refused to come to a center she tried to re-license for infant care in San José until fire sprinklers were installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the work would have cost about $150,000 and would have forced the closure of other classrooms at the center for several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have a period of time where families would not have child care. What do we do for all these families?” Saucedo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saucedo said that after lawmakers granted providers a reprieve, she received fire clearance but is still awaiting approval from state licensing regulators before she can open classrooms to infants and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scarborough was also awaiting final approvals from licensing to open the Early Head Start classroom at the family shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berlant said starting next year, his office, along with the California Department of Social Services, will consult with child care facility operators, local fire officials and other stakeholders as they develop a new building code. He said it will also be important to set standards for existing facilities that can’t “do all those costly retrofits” and figure out how to “provide additional support or programs to help new facilities meet these codes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that access to child care is critical, as is the safety of our children and our workers … but in particular in child care facilities where children are not able to evacuate on their own,” Berlant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And so that created a lot of confusion with local fire marshals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-ChildcareFireSafety-JY-006-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The toddler room at Kidango Eary Care & Education in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates pushed back against the updated code and criticized regulators for failing to consult with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We operate in terms of ratios. 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Our staff is currently reviewing architectural plans that they submitted last week, so today’s closure announcement was surprising. We remain happy to facilitate their permitting process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Hannan, communications director for the Department of Building Inspection said the property has three open code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are outstanding plumbing and electrical safety and installation code violations at this property. The building code represents the minimum legal safety standards for a structure,” Hannan said. “When a building isn’t meeting the minimum code standards, the Department of Building Inspection requires the property owner to fix it so it’s safe for people to occupy. That’s what we are doing here. There is no outstanding building code violation requiring structural work, just electrical and plumbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the church’s San Francisco location opened on Wednesday, members expressed sadness at its impending closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I use psilocybin for various purposes, number one being recreation, but also focus and giving myself like a little more clarity or lucidity in my days when I need a little push,” said 33-year-old Jake Winkelman of Oakland. “I really appreciate having a safe place where I can have a lot of control in what I’m getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle Richard, 38, drove in from Chico and said the church has helped him treat his depression and anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I used to be on a lot of anti-anxiety and depression medications, and through microdosing, I’ve been able to get rid of the pharmaceuticals, which I am not a fan of,” Richard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hodges said the biggest impact of Zide Door’s closing will be on the people who live in the neighborhood, which is one of the city’s hotspots in its drug and housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s presence, with 24/7 security, has been positive for the immediate surroundings, Hodges said, noting that church staff have reversed overdoses using Narcan, passed out water to those in need and provided surveillance footage to police investigating crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime that we see something where we can intervene and get somebody the help they need, we’ve been able to do it. 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After all, those who die of an overdose at work represent a small share of thousands of Californians who overdose each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, business owners and union officials alike are increasingly having to grapple with one of the nation’s most prominent public health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When fentanyl came around, we started having a huge uptick in overdoses and deaths — even suicides,” said Paul Moreno, president of Ironworkers Local 433 in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, his local began holding recovery meetings for members that now draw as many as a dozen attendees a month. Moreno, who said he’s been sober 19 years, visits worksites and the union hall, passing around the 988 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/09/988-911-funding-crisis-hotline-suicide-california/\">mental health crisis hotline number\u003c/a>, giving out his own personal phone number and distributing doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone (commonly sold as Narcan).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took Narcan classes. I passed out Narcan on the job sites. I never thought I’d be doing that,” he said. “The phone calls from the members, sometimes I don’t know what to say besides listen. We still need more training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new California law directs the state’s workplace safety agencies to require worksites to stock Narcan in their first aid kits, but the regulations haven’t been issued yet. A spokesperson said Cal/OSHA is “in the early stages of rulemaking,” a process that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/02/workplace-safety-california-indoor-heat/\">could take years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much is publicly known about overdose deaths at California worksites. A small office in Cal/OSHA that compiles workplace fatality data has, for at least the past two years, noted the rise in overdoses in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/CFOI/California-Occupational-Fatalities.pdf\">annual reports\u003c/a>. However, the office said it cannot release details due to privacy restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has not responded to a public records request CalMatters filed in September for all overdose incidents, fatal or nonfatal, that have been reported at worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State won’t release details on deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>County coroners’ offices, which investigate some deaths, vary widely in whether they can identify incidents based on whether a person died at their job. Death records from the past three years obtained from Alameda, San Bernardino and Riverside counties provide glimpses into the grim trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a flooring installer stepped out for a smoke break at a construction site in Temecula and was found by coworkers on the side of the house, dead from a fentanyl overdose. A packing plant worker in Corona went to the bathroom and did not return; coworkers found him bent over with a straw, lighter and piece of foil nearby, having overdosed on methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin. In Fremont, a manager found a night-shift janitor in the bathroom with a white powdery substance, overdosed on fentanyl. In Livermore this year, a driver was found in his parked semi-truck as he waited to make a scheduled delivery, also dead from fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Narcan nasal spray containers available at a rally at the First Street U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles on April 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California officials have little to say about the rising death toll. Cal/OSHA refused to make an official available for an interview and would not explain why overdoses account for a much higher share of the state’s workplace deaths compared to the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the agency cited the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-opioid-crisis/\">broader national opioid crisis\u003c/a>. “California had more than 7,000 people die from opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022,” spokesperson Erika Monterroza wrote in an email. “Unfortunately, these deaths happen all over our state, including in our workplaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Public Health said it is considering conducting a study. That agency’s occupational health branch is “aware of this issue and is considering a project to examine all opioid overdoses by industry and occupation,” a spokesperson said. In October, the department said staff are in the “initial stages of preparing for an analysis” but did not provide a completion date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies in other states indicate the problem is worse in certain industries. In Massachusetts, where overdoses are the top cause of workplace deaths, researchers with the state public health agency examined all overdose deaths — whether at work or not — and found deaths occurred disproportionately among those working in manual-labor, high-injury industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs, said Emily Sparer-Fine, director of the Massachusetts public health agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/orgs/occupational-health-surveillance-program\">Occupational Health Surveillance Program\u003c/a>, are often seasonal or unstable, and workers may be financially strained and pressured to work through pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certain industries and occupations, (such as) construction, fishing had a much higher rate of overdose,” Sparer-Fine said in an interview. “But it was also jobs that had lower access to paid sick leave, higher rates of job insecurity, higher rates of overall workplace injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new study this year, Sparer-Fine’s team also dug into \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/doc/opioid-related-overdose-deaths-among-injured-workers-in-massachusetts-findings-from-the-public-health-data-warehouse/download\">workers’ compensation data\u003c/a> and found that working-age Massachusetts residents were 35% more likely to have died of an overdose if they were previously injured on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in similar industries are overrepresented in the California workplace overdose deaths, including in trucking and warehousing, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So are workers in construction, where unions and employers are confronting a mental health and addiction crisis. Nationwide, construction workers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-07.pdf\">more likely than workers in any other profession\u003c/a> to overdose and also have one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7250a2.htm?s_cid=mm7250a2_w\">highest rates of suicide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Trahan Cain, executive director of the National Center for Construction Research and Training, has since 2018 led the response to the industry’s opioid crisis. She has focused on a longtime reliance on painkillers to deal with injuries involving the muscles and bones, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpwr.com/wp-content/uploads/KF2020-MSDs-Opioids-US-workers.pdf\">nearly a third of construction workers\u003c/a> report experiencing. Studies like the ones in Massachusetts were among the first to reveal the toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center, formed by the nation’s construction unions, has recommended stocking naloxone in union halls, requiring apprentices be taught about opioid abuse and ensuring members have coverage of drug treatment programs. They’re also providing tips on talking to doctors about how to treat injuries without long-term opioids prescriptions. The goal, Cain said, is to avoid blaming individual workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this information first came to light, what I heard was, ‘Oh, it’s just the macho culture, it’s the type of people who go into construction,’” she said. “We can’t tell you how many of these deaths are because somebody started on a prescription, but we know that some of them are. We know a lot of these deaths are also from illicit drug use that have nothing to do with workplaces, but where we can (make) changes as an industry to impact these numbers is what we’re trying to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Businesses respond to crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Employers, too, are trying to break the stigma of seeking help. Since 2021, the Associated General Contractors of California has provided materials to hold jobsite meetings about mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all employers know how to raise the issue and some fear reprisal for appearing to pry into employees’ personal lives, said Frank Nunes, CEO of the Wall and Ceiling Alliance, a Pleasanton-based specialty contractors’ group. Some, Nunes said, are advised by attorneys to avoid talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still very sensitive,” he said. “You’ve got to be very careful how you ask somebody how (they’re) doing and not offend them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Nunes joined officials of District Council 16 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades at a recovery event in San Leandro in October, promoting treatment programs covered by their contracts and encouraging workers to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to address these things in the field,” he told about 100 union members. “There’s a cultural change we all need to work on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a cavernous training hall where apprentices learn how to install drywall, union members told their peers how they had recovered from addiction. The union invited former Raiders tight end Darren Waller to talk about his own experiences with addiction and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on union officials’ numbers on construction worker deaths by overdose or suicide, Waller told the crowd: “Those are lives that still deserve to be among us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Williams, the local’s business manager and secretary-treasurer, described what he called a familiar scenario: A worker experiences a job site injury or persistent soreness, feels pressure to work through it, then escalates from an over-the-counter pill to a prescription painkiller to an illicit opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only with our families a small portion of the day,” he said. “The people we work with, we’re with 80% of the time. We’ve got to be open on those job sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/110624_Construction-Unions_LA_CM_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/110624_Construction-Unions_LA_CM_06.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/110624_Construction-Unions_LA_CM_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/110624_Construction-Unions_LA_CM_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/110624_Construction-Unions_LA_CM_06-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Williams, left, business manager and secretary-treasurer, and James Boster, right, director of mental health and addiction, with District Council 16 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, at their union office in Livermore on Nov. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union and local employers realized they had a problem on their hands last summer. After sifting through their health plan records, they found 91 members had died of overdose or suicide (not necessarily at work) in 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation forced union officials to rethink their roles in workers’ lives, Williams said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look out for safety on the jobs, so if there’s a death on a job site because of a safety hazard, it’s front-page news,” he said. “But if there’s death by an overdose or death by suicide of a construction worker when they go home, nobody talks about that. So instead of thinking about just the safety side, it’s that holistic side of, how do we make somebody better for themselves and their families?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams quickly appointed a director of addiction and mental health. James Boster, himself in recovery from a painkiller addiction he said he developed after a non-work injury, speaks at apprenticeship programs and worksites, helps workers get into recovery programs and acts as a crisis counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, Boster said he’s helped place 51 union members into residential or outpatient treatment programs. During a recent interview at the union’s headquarters in Livermore, he said he was anxious: He had secured a “scholarship” for one member who hadn’t logged enough hours in recent months to have full health coverage, but the worker had chosen to postpone treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can never walk away from a member, and something happens, and not hold that personally,” Boster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boster and Williams are eager to expand their program. Ideas include installing someone with Boster’s role across the district’s 20 local unions and establishing a fund to help members who haven’t worked enough hours to afford treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other advocates, meanwhile, have pushed the state to require naloxone at worksites as part of an overall strategy to reduce overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the National Safety Council, an advocacy group, petitioned California labor agencies to do just that. Proponents said the medication, which can temporarily reverse an overdose by blocking the brain’s opioid receptors, is easy to administer and not harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='fentanyl' label='More on Fentanyl']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing its workplace death data, Cal/OSHA supported the proposal before the independent Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board, which decides whether to approve such regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in the top two or three killers of workers now, and just a few years ago, it was a very small number,” Eric Berg, Cal/OSHA deputy chief of health and research and standards, said at a June 20 board meeting. “So it’s just become a really serious problem for workers, and it’s killing workers. I think we have an obligation to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But board members hesitated. Chairperson David Alioto called the proposal an “odd request.” While addiction is a legitimate public health concern, it’s not a workplace hazard like wildfire smoke for employees who must work outside, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not seen a regulation where an employer is providing a remedy for a risk that the employer did not create,” Alioto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members also said they worried about whether all businesses would be able to store the medication at the right temperature and whether employers would bear liability over the medication’s use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards board ultimately voted for the agency to discuss the matter before an advisory committee. In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law directing Cal/OSHA to draft a workplace naloxone rule by December 2027 and giving the board until December 2028 to consider it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no advisory committee has met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Share your story\u003c/strong>: We want to hear from workers, family members and employers. If you have experience with addiction, mental health or overdose on a job site, and you’re willing to share your story with a CalMatters reporter, please reach out to jeanne@calmatters.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When fentanyl came around, we started having a huge uptick in overdoses and deaths — even suicides,” said Paul Moreno, president of Ironworkers Local 433 in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, his local began holding recovery meetings for members that now draw as many as a dozen attendees a month. Moreno, who said he’s been sober 19 years, visits worksites and the union hall, passing around the 988 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/09/988-911-funding-crisis-hotline-suicide-california/\">mental health crisis hotline number\u003c/a>, giving out his own personal phone number and distributing doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone (commonly sold as Narcan).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took Narcan classes. I passed out Narcan on the job sites. I never thought I’d be doing that,” he said. “The phone calls from the members, sometimes I don’t know what to say besides listen. We still need more training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new California law directs the state’s workplace safety agencies to require worksites to stock Narcan in their first aid kits, but the regulations haven’t been issued yet. A spokesperson said Cal/OSHA is “in the early stages of rulemaking,” a process that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/02/workplace-safety-california-indoor-heat/\">could take years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much is publicly known about overdose deaths at California worksites. A small office in Cal/OSHA that compiles workplace fatality data has, for at least the past two years, noted the rise in overdoses in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/CFOI/California-Occupational-Fatalities.pdf\">annual reports\u003c/a>. However, the office said it cannot release details due to privacy restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has not responded to a public records request CalMatters filed in September for all overdose incidents, fatal or nonfatal, that have been reported at worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State won’t release details on deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>County coroners’ offices, which investigate some deaths, vary widely in whether they can identify incidents based on whether a person died at their job. Death records from the past three years obtained from Alameda, San Bernardino and Riverside counties provide glimpses into the grim trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a flooring installer stepped out for a smoke break at a construction site in Temecula and was found by coworkers on the side of the house, dead from a fentanyl overdose. A packing plant worker in Corona went to the bathroom and did not return; coworkers found him bent over with a straw, lighter and piece of foil nearby, having overdosed on methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin. In Fremont, a manager found a night-shift janitor in the bathroom with a white powdery substance, overdosed on fentanyl. In Livermore this year, a driver was found in his parked semi-truck as he waited to make a scheduled delivery, also dead from fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Narcan nasal spray containers available at a rally at the First Street U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles on April 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California officials have little to say about the rising death toll. Cal/OSHA refused to make an official available for an interview and would not explain why overdoses account for a much higher share of the state’s workplace deaths compared to the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the agency cited the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-opioid-crisis/\">broader national opioid crisis\u003c/a>. “California had more than 7,000 people die from opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022,” spokesperson Erika Monterroza wrote in an email. “Unfortunately, these deaths happen all over our state, including in our workplaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Public Health said it is considering conducting a study. That agency’s occupational health branch is “aware of this issue and is considering a project to examine all opioid overdoses by industry and occupation,” a spokesperson said. In October, the department said staff are in the “initial stages of preparing for an analysis” but did not provide a completion date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies in other states indicate the problem is worse in certain industries. In Massachusetts, where overdoses are the top cause of workplace deaths, researchers with the state public health agency examined all overdose deaths — whether at work or not — and found deaths occurred disproportionately among those working in manual-labor, high-injury industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs, said Emily Sparer-Fine, director of the Massachusetts public health agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/orgs/occupational-health-surveillance-program\">Occupational Health Surveillance Program\u003c/a>, are often seasonal or unstable, and workers may be financially strained and pressured to work through pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certain industries and occupations, (such as) construction, fishing had a much higher rate of overdose,” Sparer-Fine said in an interview. “But it was also jobs that had lower access to paid sick leave, higher rates of job insecurity, higher rates of overall workplace injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new study this year, Sparer-Fine’s team also dug into \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/doc/opioid-related-overdose-deaths-among-injured-workers-in-massachusetts-findings-from-the-public-health-data-warehouse/download\">workers’ compensation data\u003c/a> and found that working-age Massachusetts residents were 35% more likely to have died of an overdose if they were previously injured on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in similar industries are overrepresented in the California workplace overdose deaths, including in trucking and warehousing, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So are workers in construction, where unions and employers are confronting a mental health and addiction crisis. Nationwide, construction workers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-07.pdf\">more likely than workers in any other profession\u003c/a> to overdose and also have one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7250a2.htm?s_cid=mm7250a2_w\">highest rates of suicide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Trahan Cain, executive director of the National Center for Construction Research and Training, has since 2018 led the response to the industry’s opioid crisis. She has focused on a longtime reliance on painkillers to deal with injuries involving the muscles and bones, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpwr.com/wp-content/uploads/KF2020-MSDs-Opioids-US-workers.pdf\">nearly a third of construction workers\u003c/a> report experiencing. Studies like the ones in Massachusetts were among the first to reveal the toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center, formed by the nation’s construction unions, has recommended stocking naloxone in union halls, requiring apprentices be taught about opioid abuse and ensuring members have coverage of drug treatment programs. They’re also providing tips on talking to doctors about how to treat injuries without long-term opioids prescriptions. The goal, Cain said, is to avoid blaming individual workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this information first came to light, what I heard was, ‘Oh, it’s just the macho culture, it’s the type of people who go into construction,’” she said. “We can’t tell you how many of these deaths are because somebody started on a prescription, but we know that some of them are. We know a lot of these deaths are also from illicit drug use that have nothing to do with workplaces, but where we can (make) changes as an industry to impact these numbers is what we’re trying to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Businesses respond to crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Employers, too, are trying to break the stigma of seeking help. Since 2021, the Associated General Contractors of California has provided materials to hold jobsite meetings about mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all employers know how to raise the issue and some fear reprisal for appearing to pry into employees’ personal lives, said Frank Nunes, CEO of the Wall and Ceiling Alliance, a Pleasanton-based specialty contractors’ group. Some, Nunes said, are advised by attorneys to avoid talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still very sensitive,” he said. “You’ve got to be very careful how you ask somebody how (they’re) doing and not offend them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Nunes joined officials of District Council 16 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades at a recovery event in San Leandro in October, promoting treatment programs covered by their contracts and encouraging workers to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to address these things in the field,” he told about 100 union members. “There’s a cultural change we all need to work on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a cavernous training hall where apprentices learn how to install drywall, union members told their peers how they had recovered from addiction. The union invited former Raiders tight end Darren Waller to talk about his own experiences with addiction and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on union officials’ numbers on construction worker deaths by overdose or suicide, Waller told the crowd: “Those are lives that still deserve to be among us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Williams, the local’s business manager and secretary-treasurer, described what he called a familiar scenario: A worker experiences a job site injury or persistent soreness, feels pressure to work through it, then escalates from an over-the-counter pill to a prescription painkiller to an illicit opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only with our families a small portion of the day,” he said. “The people we work with, we’re with 80% of the time. 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After sifting through their health plan records, they found 91 members had died of overdose or suicide (not necessarily at work) in 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation forced union officials to rethink their roles in workers’ lives, Williams said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look out for safety on the jobs, so if there’s a death on a job site because of a safety hazard, it’s front-page news,” he said. “But if there’s death by an overdose or death by suicide of a construction worker when they go home, nobody talks about that. So instead of thinking about just the safety side, it’s that holistic side of, how do we make somebody better for themselves and their families?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams quickly appointed a director of addiction and mental health. James Boster, himself in recovery from a painkiller addiction he said he developed after a non-work injury, speaks at apprenticeship programs and worksites, helps workers get into recovery programs and acts as a crisis counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, Boster said he’s helped place 51 union members into residential or outpatient treatment programs. During a recent interview at the union’s headquarters in Livermore, he said he was anxious: He had secured a “scholarship” for one member who hadn’t logged enough hours in recent months to have full health coverage, but the worker had chosen to postpone treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can never walk away from a member, and something happens, and not hold that personally,” Boster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boster and Williams are eager to expand their program. 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Parents and the teachers’ union, however, worry about the impact of losing so many veteran teachers in one fell swoop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More older, experienced teachers leaving our schools replaced by new, younger, less experienced teachers will result in poorer learning outcomes for our students,” Cindy Chung, whose first-grader attends Starr King Elementary School, said at Tuesday’s meeting. “We’ve already seen high turnover of [paraeducators] and lower-paid staff who have less financial stability, can’t afford to live in SF and have incredibly long commutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff ranging from paraeducators to upper management will be eligible for the Supplemental Employee Retirement Plan so long as they have permanent full-time positions, are over 55, and will have worked within SFUSD for a consecutive five years as of June 2025. The district plans to send notification letters with information for employees who qualify beginning Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many positions will be filled with “lower-paid new hires,” whose starting salaries are $18,000 to $30,000 lower, while an estimated 69 positions could be eliminated. Together, SFUSD said, this could save over $30 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013574 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41635_002_KQED_Election_Prop13_02262020_4349-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who agree to the buyout by mid-February will receive a one-time payment equal to 60% of their salary upon their resignation while retaining their retirement benefits. If fewer than 314 employees sign up to participate, though, the offer could be retracted entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassondra Curiel, the president of United Educators San Francisco, said that although early retirement could be beneficial to some of the union’s members, it will destabilize overall school staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have classrooms right now with students in them who don’t have permanent teachers. They’ve had substitutes since August,” she told KQED. “We feel like that is management and the district’s negligence, and now they’re going to compound that vacancy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early retirement program is one part of the district’s three-pronged fiscal stabilization plan, which it said will help balance its budget and avoid state takeover. That plan was also passed by the board on Tuesday, giving Superintendent Maria Su direction to take any and all steps necessary to present balanced budgets for the next three cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is expected to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011347/sf-schools-wont-close-yet-but-the-city-still-has-questions-about-huge-budget-cuts\">a $113 million budget shortfall\u003c/a> this year and an even larger structural deficit by 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott Duchon, a state-appointed adviser who has veto power over SFUSD’s spending, told school board members on Tuesday that the reductions are crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not attended a board meeting where people are not worried about losing their jobs, where the spend budget hasn’t been an issue, where staffing hasn’t been an issue,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, Duchon has had the ability to veto SFUSD’s spending decisions because its budget report was negative, indicating it will fail to cover its expenses in coming years. This year’s first budget report, presented Tuesday, was negative as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unhealthy for the district,” Duchon said. “It’s unhealthy for your staff. It’s unhealthy for your children, the community, and for you as board members. It detracts from your goals and your ability to focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the buyouts, the fiscal stabilization plan includes a review of all budget expenditures and potential layoffs at the end of the academic year. SFUSD needs to cut more than $113.8 million in expenses next fiscal year and $13 million more in 2026-2027 to get back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and certificated staff will be notified of layoffs by March, and civil staff will find out in mid-May. The district will look at how many people choose to participate in the early retirement program and how much funding SFUSD receives in January’s state budget to determine how many layoffs are necessary, Su said. District staffers have already created a seniority list of employees to share with labor partners ahead of the potential reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Michele Huntoon, SFUSD’s associate superintendent of business services, said staff members will review all expenditures based on a few questions: “Are we using them? Are they meeting our purpose? Is it meeting our needs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duchon said that while the changes will be challenging, SFUSD needs to face the reality of its financial situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are living in a time of declining enrollment, declining revenue,” he said. “You have used one-time revenues to pay for ongoing staffing, and that has put you in a position of staffing in a way that is richer than what your resources allow you to do. We want to be hopeful, but there may be pain to go through before you get there. And if you don’t go through the pain, the pain will continue on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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