From Pasadena Now, March 9, 2020
As upwards of 18,000 children now move through the LA County Foster Care system, it has long meant that those young people may continually bounce from home to home, with an ever-dwindling number of care providers among the County’s 88 cities.
But now the State is almost three years into implementing a new system with one simple goal—to move foster children into “forever families,” or long-term homes, more swiftly. The lofty aim requires a massive budget, a cohesive plan, and a more tightly focused system.
In 2017, the State enacted its Continuum of Care Reform act, based on Assembly Bill 403, creating a network of services and providers to more directly impact the life of foster children, and that impact, like any governmental system, is moving slowly but steadily, say foster care experts.
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