This brief summarizes peer and recovery specialist models in child welfare settings.
California Provider Helpline
The Helplines diverse, highly skilled team is dedicated to ensuring accessible and compassionate customer service, while providing responsive guidance and resources to foster care and youth residential service providers. Providers in the foster family, residential care, and short-term residential treatment program fields will have access to on-demand technical assistance providers who will be able to provide guidance around most recent state regulations, guidance, and resources relative to providing the best care for children and families during this unprecedented time.
The Promise of Continuum of Care Reform
Continuum of Care Reform draws together a series of existing and new reforms to our child welfare services program designed out of an understanding that children who must live apart from their biological parents do best when they are cared for in committed nurturing family homes.
Trauma Informed Awareness Day
The Sacramento Board of Supervisors declare May 22nd as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Resilience Awareness and Action Day to emphasize the importance of understanding, preventing and treating childhood trauma in order to improve the health and future prosperity of our entire community. The Sacramento County Probation Department understands this and has embraced the essential elements of a trauma informed juvenile justice system. Our Juvenile Operation Divisions (Youth Detention Facility, Juvenile Court, Juvenile Placement, and Juvenile Field Services) has focused our efforts on becoming a trauma informed agency.
Hearing the Voices of Youth Involved in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice: Listening Session & Report
Report from Mental Health California and Kaiser Permanente highlights the impacts of trauma on system-involved youth along with key suggestions for system improvements from a youth lived-experience perspective.