The department, in consultation with counties and other stakeholders, shall consider options to expand the number of available resource families who are willing to provide intensive services foster care, including, but not limited to, the feasibility of counties and foster family agencies contracting with each other for services.

(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 777, Sec. 29. (AB 819) Effective January 1, 2020.)

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Terms Used In California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360.20

  • Intensive services foster care: means a licensed foster family agency model or public delivery model of home-based family care for eligible children whose needs for safety, permanency, and well-being require specially trained resource parents and intensive professional and paraprofessional services and support in order to remain in a home-based setting, or to avoid or exit congregate care in a short-term residential therapeutic program, group home, or out-of-state residential center. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
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