Los Angeles County DCFS Implements Pilot Program To Expedite Foster Care Placements For Youth At Temporary Shelters

On September 1, 2017, the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) launched a pilot program to expedite efforts to find placements for difficult-to-place foster youth housed in transitional shelters. The program is for youth who have not been placed after 72 hours at the 16-bed David & Margaret Youth and Family Services (D&M) temporary shelter care (TSC) program for adolescent girls. In this new pilot approach, if the 72-hour placement target passes, within seven days the youth participates in an engagement and placement stabilization (EPS) meeting with DCFS staff. The goal . . .