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Foster Care and Adoption

2420 Martin Road, Suite 200, Fairfield, CA 94534

Provides services for prospective foster and adoptive parents. Recruits, trains, and approves foster and adoptive families. Offers regular trainings, support groups, and one-on-one coaching. Also offers parenting skills education. 

Resource Family Approval (RFA)

3250 Kerner Boulevard, San Rafael, CA 94901
Screens and trains resource/kinship families for temporary or permanent placement of children. Provides foster care (temporary) and fost-adopt (potentially permanent) placements for children in the foster care system and other services including:
  • training and information
  • home studies
  • support to families
  • emotional and financial support

Resource Family Approval (RFA)

3801 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94124
Administers foster care and adoption placement services. Provides temporary placement of children in foster care with resource families. Offers permanent placement to children for adoption with resource families.

Foster Care and Adoption

4820 Business Center Drive, Suite 210, Fairfield, CA 94534

Adminsters foster care and adoption placement services for children with resource families. Provides orientation, recruitment, training, and certification to prospective resource families. Offers home supervistion, mentoring and support counseling after placement of children.

Foster Care and Adoption Services

500 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, CA 95076

Places children who are unable to live safely with their birth family into permanent homes. Recruits and screens prospective adoptive parents, finalize adoptions, provide post-adoption services and provide services to birth parents who choose to voluntarily relinquish their parental rights.

Provides foster parent recruitment, licensing of relative caregiver and foster family homes, training and support for relative caregivers and foster families and enforcement of foster care regulations.

Foster Care and Adoption

2310 First Street, Napa, CA 94559

Adminsters foster care and adoption placement services for children with resource families. Provides orientation, recruitment, training, and certification to prospective resource families. Offers home supervistion, mentoring and support counseling after placement of children.

Resource Family Approval (RFA)

275 Beck Avenue, Fairfield, CA 94533
Provides a full range of adoption services. Includes relinquishment counseling for biological parents, recruitment, assessment, and approval of adoptive parents. Matches children with applicants. Coordinates post-adoption inquiries from adult adoptees and biological parents wishing to reunite. Provides placement and supervision of children in foster care. Conducts licensing of foster homes. The Foster/Adopt program works with resource families (foster families) caring for foster children. These families are given priority if those children later become eligible for adoption.

Resource Family Approval (RFA)

2751 Napa Valley Corporate Drive, Napa, CA 94558
Recruits and licenses foster parents and foster homes. Child Welfare provides a monthly stipend for food, shelter, clothing and recreation for each child, medical and dental coverage for each child through the Medi-Cal program, initial and on-going training to develop their knowledge and skills so they can provide the best possible care to meet the unique needs of each foster child and support and supervision from agency staff.

Family Health Programs- Home Visiting Programs

1060 Emeline Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
  • Public Health Field Nursing A voluntary home visiting program with a Public Health Nurse to support families during pregnancy and with children up to 5 years old. The program provides strength-based case management, assists families with accessing resources, and provides health and parenting education.
  • Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) An evidence-based home visiting program that pairs first time expectant parents with a specially trained nurse. The program begins during pregnancy and provides support, education, and resources to families until their child turns 2 years old. Nurses also check in with the parent regarding their health and wellness and their child’s growth and development.
  • Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program (CPSP)CPSP is a statewide program that provides enhanced reimbursement for a wide range of services to Medi-Cal eligible pregnant and postpartum women.
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) ProgramPublic Health Nurses in Santa Cruz County provide bereavement support, information, resources, and follow-up services to assist families and caregivers who have experienced the loss of an infant from SIDS or Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID).

Foster Care and Adoption Services

1400 Emeline Avenue, Building K, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Places children who are unable to live safely with their birth family into permanent homes. Recruits and screens prospective adoptive parents, finalize adoptions, provide post-adoption services and provide services to birth parents who choose to voluntarily relinquish their parental rights.

Provides foster parent recruitment, licensing of relative caregiver and foster family homes, training and support for relative caregivers and foster families and enforcement of foster care regulations.