adoption
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ACL 09-17: Supplement To The Rate Requests For Dual Agency Aid To Families With Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) And Adoption Assistance Program (AAP) Children Quarterly Statistical Report (4/27/09)
A new statistical report is out for counties to complete regarding Rate Requests for Dual Agency AFDC-FC and AAP kids (those also receiving Regional Center services). (The supplement if for those youth whose supervision needs cannot be addressed…
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ACIN I-31-09: Invitation For County Participation In The Resource Family Approval Pilot Program (4/22/09)
5 counties get to pilot a process to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing foster family homes and assessing/approving relative caregivers, non-relative extended family members (NREFM), adoptive applicants and prospective guardians with a single unified process. This…
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ACL 09-16: Approvals For Prospective Adoptive Applicants (3/12/09)
AB 2651 was an urgency measure, effective October 1, 2008, which amended California’s adoption approval process for prospective adoptive parents/petitioners to meet federal requirements. This ACL outlines the obligations of CDSS and all licensed public and private adoption…
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ACL 09-10: Intercountry Adoptions (2/27/09)
Passes on recently enacted federal and state law changes that impact intercountry adoptions. Public adoption agencies do not need to be accredited to practice these types of adoptions, but should be aware that the requirements for emigrating children…
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ACL 09-09: Relative Caregivers and Permanency Options (2/23/09)
Notice of changes brought about by AB 298 regarding how legal guardianship for a relative is considered as a permanency placement option. 1) a relative caregiver’s preference for legal guardianship over adoption, unrelated to an unwillingness to accept…
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ACL 08-49E: Correction To ACL 08-49 (Adoption Provisions Of The Child Protection And Safety Act) (2/23/09)
A correction to the portion of ACL 08-49 that described the duties of agencies dually licensed as FFAs and adoption agencies. [Download]
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ACL 09-15: Implementation Of AB 1512; Clarification re: Disenrollment Of Children In Foster Care From the County Organized Health System And Medi-Cal Change Of Address Procedures For Children In Foster Care/Adoption Assistance from Medi-Cal HMOs (3/5/09)
A reminder that the law now requires that foster care children who have moved to a new county of residence be disenrolled from the County Organized Health System (COHS) in the previous county of residence within two working…
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ACL 09-09: Relative Caregivers and Permanency Options (2/23/09)
New legislation has made changes to statutes regarding how legal guardianship for a relative is considered as a permanency placement option: 1) a relative caregiver’s preference for legal guardianship over adoption, if it is due to circumstances that…
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ACIN I-17-09: Association Of Administrators Of The Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children (AAICPC) 35th Annual Conference (2/19/09)
Notice of the upcoming conference… [Download]
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ACIN I-04-09: Organization Of the Children And Family Services Division (1/27/09
A little housekeeping over at DSS…in part to promote better continuity and oversight of county child welfare services functions, as well as to provide appropriate state staff support to counties in the delivery of child welfare services in…