California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care

Briefings: Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care

Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care - Message From the Chair (2010)

Statement on Data Sharing, California's Child Welfare Council (2009)

Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care: Health Care (2010)

Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care: Education (2010)

Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care: Mental Health Care (2010)

Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care: Substance Abuse Treatment (2010)

AOC Briefing: Truancy and School Discipline: An Overview of the Literature and Statistics (November 2012)

Child Welfare County Data Profiles for the Courts

The Child Welfare County Data Profiles for the Courts are a series of county-level reports that provide relevant information on the juvenile dependency caseload in California. The data contained in these reports are drawn primarily from publicly available data stored in California's child welfare data system (CWS/CMS). The reports have been designed to meet the data needs of judicial officers, court managers and court executives. Following a high-level data dashboard, these reports contain information on court caseloads, voluntary caseloads, juvenile dependency filings, family maintenance cases, numbers of children in foster care, foster care entries and exits, foster care placement types, in-care rates by race and ethnicity, reentries into foster care, time to adoption, permanent placement outcomes, and youth aging out of foster care.

Final Report and Action Plan

Final Report and Action Plan: Fostering a New Future for California's Children (May 2009)
In its first three years the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care worked with other child welfare partners to grasp the scope of the need for reform efforts in foster care. Then it drafted a comprehensive set of recommendations aimed at ensuring that every child in California has a safe, secure, and permanent home. Those recommendations and a plan to implement them can be found in this report.

Final Report and Action Plan - Executive Summary (May 2009)
The summary includes the highlights of the commission’s recommendations and action plan, the result of an unprecedented three-year collaborative effort to help California’s over-stressed juvenile dependency courts do a better job of safeguarding children, reduce the need for foster care, and improve the foster care system.

Blue Ribbon Commission Implementation Progress Report (August 2010)
This is the commission’s first implementation progress report, documenting the efforts of local and statewide collaborations to advance the commission’s recommendations and to begin the process of implementing sweeping reforms to the juvenile dependency court and child welfare systems in California.