Los Angeles Department Of Children & Family Services Response To Board Of Supervisors On Initiative To Support Relative Caregivers, Proposed In June 2015

The Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Service (DCFS) is planning a demonstration project called Relative Support Services (RSS) to partner with community-based organizations (CBOs) to develop kinship support programs for caregivers. For this project, which is slated to start in 2016, DCFS intends to allocate $1.2 million from its current budget to contract with qualified CBOs to develop the programs and deliver the services. In this document dated February 2, 2016, DCFS detailed its progress on the project to the county Board of Supervisors . . .