However, many county child welfare agencies are struggling to meet these goals due to a shortage of available resource families, a group that includes both foster parents and kinship caregivers. (cwda.org)
To make sense of the LCAP and what it means for foster youth, the Los Angeles County child welfare agency, former foster youth and an assortment of foster youth education experts came together as the Coalition for Educational Equity for Foster Youth. (healthhappenshere.com)
They are approved as «resource families» by county child welfare agencies or private agencies like Remi Vista through an evaluation process called the «Resource Family Approval» process. (remivistainc.net)