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Protecting Children - Supporting Families - Providing Quality Care

Advancing Child Welfare

Family Support and Related Services: Introduction & Timeline | Meetings
Family Assessment Response (FAR): Introduction | Differential Response | Goals & Guiding Principles | Timeline | Frequently Asked Questions

Flexible Funding, Title IV-E Waiver: Introduction | Background | Goals & Objectives | Committee Members | Resources

Adoption

Adopt a Child: Introduction | Things to Consider | Laws & Requirements | Cost | Types of Children | Steps to Adoption | Adoption Records Search | Resources

About the Adoption Support Program

Foster Parenting

News | Working with Laws & Rules | Forms & Policies

Resource Family Training Institute: Training | Parenting Resources

Become a: Foster Parent | Kinship Care Provider

Fathers Matter

Tools for legal fathers with children in the child welfare system: Introduction | Child Protective Services | Your Rights and Responsibilities | Working with the Social Worker | A Father's Role in Court | Working with Your Lawyer | Who Will Be in Court | Your Role Outside of Court | Getting Help

Child Safety & Protection

Protection: Abuse Prevention | Abandonment | Youth Suicide | What is Abuse? |

10 things you can do to prevent child abuse

Safe & legal alternatives to abandonment

Safety Tips: Car | Gun | Water | Fire | Pregnancy | Newborn

Improvements Underway

Strategy for Change: Introduction
Accountability: GMAP
Other: Child & Family Services Review | Braam Settlement Agreement | Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare | Citizen Review Panels

Child Abuse & Neglect

Report Abuse

What is Abuse?

What Happens Once Abuse is Reported?

Who is Required to Report It?

CA Child Fatality Reports

Child Abuse and Neglect Requests: