This toolkit is intended to help California Children’s Services (CCS) beneficiaries and their families navigate CCS program grievances and appeals. The toolkit provides guidance and best practices on the grievance and appeals process so that readers can understand how to get care through the CCS program.

Students and school applicants with disabilities are protected against disability-based discrimination, and have a right to reasonable accommodations, under federal and state law.

What is the Disabled Adult Child (DAC) Medi-Cal Program? Am I eligible for the DAC Medi-Cal Program? Find the answers to these DAC questions and more in this publication.

“Communication supports” are device or services that can help a person with a disability to communicate. Communications supports are sometimes called Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), or Special Adaptive Equipment.

This pub tells you when a school has to give your child needed medication. It tells you what medications a school can give to your child. It tells you who can give your child their medication. It gives you other information about giving your child medication at school.

If you have health insurance through Medi-Cal, medically -necessary mental health services are a covered benefit for you. Some mental health services are available through your Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan or fee-for-service Medi-Cal providers. Other mental health services are available only through County Mental Health Plans (MHPs). Mental health services provided by MHPs are called Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services. This publication focuses on Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services (SMHS) for adults ages 21 and older.