Health and Social Services Committee

The CPS agency has annual turnover ratio for personnel of 37-40% the reasons being money and stress. The administrator has developed a program in which a qualified employee who desires to remain in Lake County can enroll in the Davis College Educational program and pursue their degree in Social Service.

The Emergency Foster Care homes are well supervised by CPS. The temporary parent(s) are pre- screened and homes inspected by CPS before they are approved to participate in the program.

The County of Lake utilizes outside agencies for placing a child in a permanent or temporary foster home when ordered by the courts. CPS maintains a weekly check on the child placed in the outside agency's foster care home. The Foster Care Agencies are licensed by the State of California and do not fall under the jurisdiction of the County of Lake. http://www.co.lake.ca.us/generalinformation/grandjury/report0001/cpsinvestigation.html (1 of 2)4/17/2007 3:09:33 PM County of Lake - 1999/2000 Grand Jury Report

The Social Service department administers four programs related to Foster Care including the new Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program, referred to as "Kin-Gap" which provides assistance to relatives who are approved as foster parents. The other programs are Foster Care Placement, Adoption Assistance, and Severely Emotional Disturbed (SED) foster care placements.

The question of the County of Lake not meeting their requirements for matching funds allocated by the State was referred to the county administrator for information and explanation. It was determined that the County does in fact match grant funds spent by the Social Service Department but that the process may not be clearly understood by Social Services.