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Los Angeles County Self-Assessment Report • The WIC 241.1 Unit monitors cases for Dependent Children whose cases come under Dependency and Delinquency (WIC 600) Court. • Court Transportation Services serves about 1381 children a month who are placed in out of home care. Children are transported to court by skilled Transportation Workers and the children are supervised by experienced and trained childcare staff. • Implemented in 2007, the Family Substance Abuse Treatment Program, otherwise known as Dependency Drug Court, uses a team approach to working with parents whose children have been detained by the Court. The team includes the child’s parent, the Judge, the attorneys for the child and parent, County Counsel, a DCFS social worker, and substance abuse treatment providers. All families who are referred to “drug court” must agree to participate in a Family Substance Abuse Treatment Program (FSATP). The FSATP is a one-year treatment and testing program that can help parents get off and stay off drugs and/or alcohol to lead clean and sober lives. Thus, participation in this program increases the likelihood for parents to have a successful and timely reunification with their children. Systemic Factor #3: Resource Parent Recruitment, Licensing and Retention: Recruitment: The populations specified for recruitment and retention for this fiscal period are for those children supervised by DCFS who are disproportionately represented and those with special needs. This focus will create opportunity to engage various community based entities, including faith-based organizations, the education, health, and public safety communities, as well as governmental organizations in order to address the need of permanence for children throughout the County of Los Angeles. Recruitment goals are designed to both increase public inquires on becoming resource and/or adoptive parents and the number of qualified candidates who attend recruitment orientations. The Probation Department has not yet been able to move forward and develop a program in this area. However, there are continued efforts being made to develop strategies and gain resources, information and opportunities for Foster/Adoptive Parent education and recruitment for probation youth. As we have more youth cross over from DCFS to Probation, it is critical to build this resource within probation. One of the strategies is to work in close collaboration with DCFS to gain opportunities to develop this area for Probation Youth. DCFS is diligent with instituting a rich variety of ways in which to recruit potential foster and adoptive families that reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of children in L.A. 92
Los Angeles County Self-Assessment Report County. The following are examples of DCFS recruitment efforts: • Community Booths – Face to face interaction with the public providing information to the need of permanence for children supervised by the Department of Children and Family Services • Faith Based Events – Partnering with Faith Based Organizations for a more targeted/focused campaign for both general and child specific recruitment • Media – Particularly radio spots with a specific demographic listening population. It is particularly effective in conjunction to promoting an upcoming event. Our Wednesday’s Child segments on Fox 11 News results in regular calls. • Heart Gallery – Our photo gallery of waiting child is used to draw in families and has been very effective in very public places such as shopping malls. • Improved Customer Service – Retraining our staff to be more professional and courteous as well as doing follow up telephone calls to those who missed their scheduled orientation. • Word of Mouth – This is still our most popular method of recruiting families. As our families have positive experiences with DCFS, they tell others. • Orientations – Orientations are located county wide. Three-hour orientations are conducted by Community Care Licensing and the DCFS Resource Family Recruitment Section staff to disseminate information about licensing, adoption, and fostering. A minimum of 15 orientations are provided per month. DCFS features children on various internet sites and receive between 30-50 adoption home studies on a monthly basis. All Placement and Recruitment Unit social workers are responsible to review these studies and generate matches with their waiting children. About 30 children that are older, part of a large sibling group, or have special medical needs are placed in out of state homes annually. DCFS funds the services needed to supervise the placement and finalization. In 2007, 12, 464 calls were made to the Resource Parent Intake Line. There were 5,161 English speaking and 1,722 Spanish speaking potential foster and adoptive parents that registered to attend a Resource Parent Orientation Meeting. There were 2,736 English speaking and 1,034 Spanish speaking potential foster and adoptive parents that actually attended the orientation meetings. SPAs 4, 5 and 6 appear to be the areas of the greatest need for resource families, as these are the communities in which there are high numbers of children being removed from their homes. These areas include those families who are most disproportionately 93
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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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(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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