Agency: SANTA BARBARA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES (DSS)
A county program that supports caregivers, couples, and families who house children in foster care. Support services include:
The term Resource Family describes all types of living situations which include:
Kinship homes: relative, non-relative extended family, and Adoptive parents.
A friend of the family, or a mentor to the child,
Have no previous relationship with the child
Community homes (Group Homes) that are ready to care for a child in foster care.