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• Assisted Guardianship • Second Family Program Helping Foster Children Become Successful Adults: Assisted Guardianship Assisted Guardianship provides subsidy payments to a guardian to allow a child to have a permanent home when neither reunification nor adoption is possible. • Child has been in agency custody for a year, and with this provider for at least six months. • Continued placement with this caregiver is in the child's best interests, and meets the need for permanency and safety. • The caregiver is willing to assume guardianship and provide a permanent home. • The Juvenile Court approves of the plan Helping Faster Children Became Successful Adults: Second Family • The Second Family Program was established by Mike Miles and his family to foster and nurture the self-development of adolescent, foster care youth in Orange County. • Second Family provides: • Strang focus on personal, intellectual, and physical development. • Philosophy of "giving back". • Subsidy for expenses such as tutoring, music lessons, dance lessons, athletics. • Training/mentoring for development of social skills. • Development of "code of ethics" for youth. Other Accomplishments • Provided children with safe, permanent homes by completing 16 adoptions • Strengthened families by increasing counseling services to CPS families • Continued to meet service demands by providing laptops with docking stations to field staff to increase efficiency • Enabled more parents to work by providing subsidized child care for more children • Allowed more adults to remain at home through in-home aide services 5. Child Care Task Force Annual Report 2006-2007 Subsidy • Total funding increased from $3,946,852 to $4,303,412 in 2006-07 • $150,000 in county funds was designated {$70,000 from Medicaid relief) • Total number of children served increased from 1025 to 1138 • Average monthly subsidy payment was $497 • Wait time decreased from 15 months to 3 months • Currently 426 unnerved children on DSS waiting list DSS Board Recommendations Working families should wait no more than 4 months for subsidy • If wait times are longer and no funds are available, DSS Board informs BOCC