Child Welfare and Foster Care
Here at Alternative Family Services, we use a community-based services model as one option to support the varying needs of the youth and families we work with throughout northern California.…
Alternative Family Services provides telepsychiatry services to youth and families within the child welfare system. Let’s dive into what this entails, and why it can be advantageous. What is Telepsychiatry?…
Passing with bipartisan support in 2018, the Family First Prevention Services Act, or FFPSA, was one of the most recent and most significant federal child welfare and foster care laws…
Introduction There are over 50,000 foster youth in California, according to data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. And consistently, California foster youth lag behind their peers when it comes to key education outcomes like…
Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions about foster care that are widely held across the United States. To help break down the most prevalent foster care myths and misconceptions and provide…
Here at AFS, we are lucky to work with some amazing Resource Parents. Today, we’re going to highlight one of them: Gwen Lloyd. Ms. Gwen Lloyd has been a resource…