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• Foster Care

  • Why Is Foster Care Needed?
  • Traveling With Your Foster Family During the Holidays
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  • Famous Foster Children Who Have Been Through Foster Care
  • 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
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  • What Is Foster Care? A FAQ For Potential Foster Parents
  • An Introduction to Contra Costa County’s Foster Care

• In the Media

  • CBS5: Proposal to Change CalFresh Rules and Potential Impact on Contra Costa
  • EHSD’s Aging & Adult Services celebrates Oakley Senior Center grand opening
  • The Richmond Standard: CalFresh recipients receive benefits early due to federal shutdown
  • Telemundo: Adelantan beneficios de CalFresh en Condado de Santa Clara
  • East Bay Times: Fewer Bay Area immigrant families are signing up for public benefits
  • 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

  • Project Ready-to-Learn Brings Full Backpacks, High Hopes to Students
  • AAA 2019 Needs Assessment Survey
  • Most Contra Costa County CalFresh Recipients to Receive February Benefits Early
  • 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