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Foster Care
- Why Is Foster Care Needed?
- Traveling With Your Foster Family During the Holidays
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- Myths About Adopting Through the Foster Care System
- Even More Myths About Foster Care We’d Like to Debunk
- Will You Be Expected To Adopt When Fostering A Child?
- What Does (and Doesn’t) Foster Care Pay For?
- Food In Foster Care
- Things You Might Not Expect About Foster Care
- Foster Care By the Numbers
- Common Myths About Foster Care
- The Most Common Types of Foster Care Parents
- What Is Foster Care? A FAQ For Potential Foster Parents
- An Introduction to Contra Costa County’s Foster Care
In the Media
- East Bay Times: Agencies Join to Fight Elder Abuse
- CBS 5 – Fair Chance Employer Summit
- CBS 5: Bay Area Woman Remembers Modern-Day Slave
- East Bay Times: Op-Ed
- KTVU Fox 2: Bittersweet victory for Contra Costa Co. Head Start program
- NBCBayArea.com: Elder Abuse Cases Skyrocket in Contra Costa County
- Martinez News-Gazette: Community Services Bureau seeks student intern
- CBS5: California Boosts Foster Homes To Replace Group Housing
- KTVU: New California Law creates more need for foster care families
- Contra Costa County officials working to phase out group homes for foster children
- East Bay Times: Face of foster care changing
- KRON4: Contra Costa County to phase out group homes for foster children
- New Law Set To End Group Homes As Foster Care Option
- Contra Costa County: Promising program fights deadly domestic violence
- “California Health Report”
- Contra Costa Families Shouldn’t Go Hungry/Tom Barnidge Column
- Contra Costa Times: West County Family Justice Center Opens
- Richmond Standard: West County Family Justice Center
- KQED: The CALIFORNIA Report
- Contra Costa Times: East Contra Costa County Career Fair
News Releases
- Proposed Public Charge Rule Changes Signal Chilling Effect on Benefit Programs
- Federal Dollars to Boost Contra Costa County’s Response to Interpersonal Violence
- Benefit Programs are Intact for Contra Costa County Residents during Federal Government Shutdown
- The White House Invites Contra Costa County Customer Centered Design Team to Present Project to Improve Access to Resources for Inmates upon Release
- EHSD Aging & Adult Services Awarded $1.5 Million in Grants to Respond to Elder Abuse as Contra Costa County’s Aging Population Grows
- Contract Opportunities
- Earn and Learn … Phillips 66 Investment Leads to Employment