The County of Orange Social Services Agency (SSA) is pleased to announce its 2021 Human Services Request for Proposals Training for Community Partners for human services providers interested in learning more about competitive bidding through the use of the Request for Proposals (RFP) solicitation method. SSA is the largest County...

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The Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) was designed out of an understanding that children who must live apart from their biological parents do best when they are cared for in committed nurturing family homes. CCR, also known as AB 403 , is a California legislative mandate designed to: Facilitate permanency...

Foster Care Auxiliary of Orange County is a proactive group of foster parents, social workers and community members dedicated to working together to provide high quality care to dependent children, foster parent support, legislative advocacy and continuing education. Help is needed at each of our events as well as ongoing...

When necessary a social worker will visit with the children and the parents within 24 hours to ten days, depending on the urgency of the safety and service needs of the family. Many people are under the misconception that if a family is reported for child abuse the parent will...

OCCP subcommittee: Child Welfare Services Redesign Planning Council - implements statewide and local efforts to improve CWS service systems and delivery with emphasis on prevention, diversion, early intervention, alternate response, and improved permanency options, increased accountability for CWS systems, and stakeholder and community involvement. The OCCP meets on the third...

Mandated Reporter 11165.7. (a) As used in this article, "mandated reporter" is defined as any of the following: A teacher. An instructional aide. A teacher's aide or teacher's assistant employed by any public or private school. A classified employee of any public school. An administrative officer or supervisor of child...

Vocational Assessment is the activity following Job Services for CalWORKs Welfare-To-Work participants who have not found full-time employment. The assessment is a professional evaluation of the participant’s work history, skills, education, knowledge and physical abilities, and evaluation of the chances for employment given the participant’s current status and the local...

A Child and Family Team (CFT) refers to a group of individuals who collaborate with one another to support and serve the child/youth and family to ensure that the child’s/youth’s needs are being met. The CFT must include the child/youth, family and representatives from the placing agency, mental health as...

Job Services is generally the first activity for new CalWORKs Welfare-To-Work participants. It is a four-week program designed to provide the participant with training to learn basic job seeking and interviewing skills, understand employer expectations, create a résumé based on work history, experience and personal strengths, and to enhance the...