Stanislaus County Community Services Agency Civil Grand Jury Case No. 10-46gj

CSA takes audits seriously and immediately takes action to resolve any problems or errors found in its cases.

All errors identified in the most recent independent audit have been resolved.

For each error identified in the most recent audit, the Agency prepared a Policy Action Memo, along with printed instructions and check lists in order to prevent similar errors in the future.

The Director and Staff of CSA appear to be conscientious, caring people who are attempting to serve those in need while being restricted by extreme budget cuts. Every budget season CSA is expected to do more with less.

The various programs CSA administers are delicately balanced to serve the public in the best way possible. Having to cut the budget of one program upsets this balance and causes problems in the other programs. Losing staff because of budget cuts negatively impacts safety nets that are being utilized to keep family units together. This often results in more children being placed in Foster Care, which not only affects the well being of the children specifically, but also their families and communities in general.