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Los Angeles County Self-Assessment Report Howard Wong, Director, Residential-Based Services Stakeholder Acknowledgements: Sarah Allen, Relative Caregiver, Stepping Stones Foster Parent Association Maria Bhattachan, Director, Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services Lesley Bleecher, Chief Program Specialist, Los Angeles County, Chief Executive Office Jorge Camarena, Program Director, Journey House Trula Worthy-Clayton, Vice-Chair, Commission for Children and Families Sandi Pat Colbert, Relative Caretaker, Los Angeles County Resource Family Coordinating Council Association Emeka Dillibe, Executive Director, Care-Provider Children and Family Services Joe Domond, Manager, Turning Point Group Homes for Girls Rita Domond, Manager, Turning Point Group Homes for Girls Barbara Facher, Social Worker, Alliance of Children’s Rights Kenneth Fleming, Executive Director, Dimondale Adolescent Care Facility Kimberly Foster, Executive Director, Commission for Children and Families Deborah Singer-Frances, Senior Deputy County Counsel, Office of County Counsel Mary-Kaye Gerski, Administrator Director, Phoenix House Sherry Gold, Deputy Alternate Public Defender, Office of Alternate Public Defender Cheryl Gully, Director, Child Welfare League of America Laura Holtzman, Senior Staff Attorney, The Alliance Kathy House, Branch Manager, County of Los Angeles, Chief Executive Office Daisy Hull, Resource Adoptive Parent, Stepping Stones Foster Parent Association Patricia Levinson, Project Director, Los Angeles County Office of Education Amanda Lopez, Child Welfare Policy Director, Association of Community Human Service Agencies Aubrey Manuel, President, Los Angeles County Resource Family Coordinating Council Association 192
Los Angeles County Self-Assessment Report Timothy Mayworm, Executive Director, Journey House Jacquelyn McCroskey, Professor of Social Work, University of Southern California Barbara Needell, Principal Investigator, University of California at Berkeley, Center for Social Services Research Idanys Pomares-Medina, Senior Staff Attorney, Public Counsel Jane Newman, Attorney, Office of the Public Defender Maureen Pacheco, Deputy Public Defender, Los Angeles County Office of the Public Defender Charles Rich, Executive Director, David and Margaret Homes Toni Thomas, Educational Community Worker, Los Angeles County Office of Education Daniel Webster, Research Specialist, University of Berkeley-Center for Social Services Research 193
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The Los Angeles County Department o
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Table of Contents SECTION III: Chil
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SECTION I INTRODUCTION 5
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the CDSS - facilitated Focus Groups
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English Learning students’ academ
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DCFS Caseload by Age: - 15 years 11
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· Lastly, the South Bay/Harbor are
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SECTION II KEY INITIATIVES AND PROG
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identified in Probation’s overall
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factor reported by study participan
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(Appendix I shows a detailed TDM Ou
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Initial FSNA 37.1% n = 5,516 The Pe
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Concurrent Planning Redesign (CPR).
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In a DCFS research study conducted
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extensive improvements in family fu
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SECTION III CHILD WELFARE OUTCOMES
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Below is a summary chart of Los Ang
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Measure C1.1 Percent of Children Re
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Measure C2.3 Adoption Within 12 Mon
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Measure C4.1 Placement Stability (8
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Measure 4A Siblings - Some or All P
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Measure 4E (1) ICWA Placement Prefe
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Employed Youths Oct 03-Sep 04 Oct 0
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Caseload, Referrals, Substantiation
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DCFS currently implements various s
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Measure S2.1: No maltreatment in fo
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are terminated, the court is requir
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(including discussion on what would
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changes and progress that have been
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This consolidated approach to recru
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Placement Stability and Ethnicity:
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TDMs. The immediate outcomes for Pl
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during the past three fiscal period
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groups. The recruitment division al
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have completed high school, 88 have
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