What's New?
California's Residentially-based Services Reform initiative seeks to transform the state's group homes, currently providing long term congregate care and treatment, to programs combining short-term residential stabilization and treatment with follow along community-based services to reconnect youth to their families, schools and communities.
In 2007, with the passage of AB 1453 (Soto), support of the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), financial support from Casey Family Programs, and the creation of the RBS Reform Coalition, reform of the state's system for care and treatment of youth with challenging needs has come to fruition.
The legislation authorizes selection of four counties or consortia of counties that, with private partners, will implement alternative program and funding models consistent with the framework document that defines and describes RBS. The lessons learned from these projects will inform planning for statewide implementation of RBS reform due to the Legislature in 2011.
