A new law signed by California Governor Jerry Brown this year will require group homes meet treatment standards for foster children with histories of mental illness, sexual abuse or significant trauma.
Homes that can not meet those standards will not be allowed to operate and children who do not need those services will not be allowed to stay in those homes.
Democratic Assemblyman Mark Stone wrote the law and says it's part of an effort to get kids out of group homes and into family settings.
"It is a major push away from the utilization of group homes and into more individualized care. That's the significant shift," he says. "There still will be some group homes. But, what we've done in this is limited the duration, turned them into more short-term, intensive care treatment facilities for those kids who need that."
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