As California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) prepares to leave office at the end of the year, the last round of child welfare legislation under his watch includes a new law to ease the path of relative caregivers under the Continuum of Care Reform (CCR), the major child welfare initiative developed during his time as governor.
The Continuum of Care Reform is designed to reduce the state’s reliance on congregate care by placing more foster children with families, including more with relative caregivers.
However, since CCR began in 2017, the reforms have been beset by lengthy backlogs for the approval process for resource families, as foster parents and relative caregivers are now known. That has meant months-long waits for some new resource families to make it through the approval process, often without support.
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