Promising Practices in Concurrent Planning: Integration of Child Welfare and Adoption Units and Agencies

August 31, 2009 This brief is one of a series that provides descriptions of select practices identified through preliminary analysis of data from the study: Child Welfare Permanency Reforms. This study examined the implementation of concurrent planning in 6 California counties through focus groups and interviews with a variety of stakeholders in concurrent planning cases. Promising practices from several non-study counties and agencies with well-developed concurrent planning approaches were also examined. The practice approach described represents work conducted in one or more of the following county child welfare agencies: Contra Costa, Mendocino, Monterey, Placer, San Bernardino, San Diego . . .