Placement Vacancies for Children in California

Big News	Federal District Court Rejects State Plan for Two-Tiered Rate System, Blocks Rates Cut For ALL Youth in Group Homes. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel issued an injunction late Friday enjoining the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) from implementing a 10% cut in rates for the care of both federally eligible and non-federally eligible foster youth placed in group homes. In so doing, the federal district court judge rejected the state’s plan that would have implemented her initial injunction in California Alliance v Wagner and Rose (Alliance II) by setting up a two-tiered rate system with higher rates for federally eligible children and lower rates for children not federally eligible. Read the news article.
	Detangling Diagnoses for Foster and Adopted Youth, by John Sobraske, Adoptalk - Spring 2009. Reprinted by permission of NACAC.
	Listen to Trish Ploehm, Director of Los Angeles County DCFS, interviewed by leadership coach Judy Nelson.
	Liusten to a CWLA interview with Voice For Adoption on the importance of Post-Adoption services
	Draft Revised Foster Family Home Regulations are here: Packet1 and Packet2.
	List of Agency Members of the California Alliance.
	Announcing Adoption-Wraparound.org. Intensive post-adoption process for struggling adoptive families, for Counties, Families, and Private Agencies.
	Review of Policies and Programs to Support Young People Transitioning Out of Foster Care - by Chapin Hall.
	Finding Permanent Homes for Foster Children - Issues Raised by Kinship Care - by The Urban Institute.
	Training Kin to be Foster Parents: Best Practices from the Field
	Unintended Consequences of Safe Haven Laws - The Evan B. Donaldson Institute.
	California Association of Adoption Agencies
	National Wraparound Initiative
	Wraparound Solutions
	California Kids Connection database