Foster children and youth: family urgent response system.

Existing law, commonly known as Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) , states the intent of the Legislature in adopting CCR to improve California's child welfare system and its outcomes by using comprehensive initial child assessments, increasing the use of home-based family care and the provision of services and supports to home-based family care, reducing the use of congregate care placement settings, and creating faster paths to permanency resulting in shorter durations of involvement in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Existing law, as part of the CCR, requires the State Department of Social Services to implement a resource family approval process, which replaces the multiple…