Administration
- Accidental Injuries and Illness
- Camp Connect
- Children Placed in an Employee’s Homes
- Clinical Supervision
- Committee Work Group Participation
- Conflict of Interest
- Drug and Alcohol Policy
- Filing Complaints with State Licensing Board
- Heart
- Internship Program
- Local Emergencies
- Media Communications
- Office Assistant Unit Clerks
- Office of the Ombudsman
- Parking
- Research Policy
- San Diego County Governance
- Social Media
- Staff Expectations – Protective Services Program Manager
- Staff Expectations – Protective Services Supervisor
- Staff Expectations – Protective Services Worker
- Staff Expectations – Senior Protective Services Worker
- Staff Expectations – Social Workers (I, II, III)
- Student Workers
- Telephone Policy
- Transporting Children
- Travel for CFWB Staff
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Workforce Development
- Workforce and Training Development Units
Adoptions
- AAP Benefits for a Child in Temporary Out-of-Home Placement
- AAP Eligibility for Private Adoptions
- AAP Redetermination
- AAP Services Reassessment
- AD90 and State Acknowledgement
- Adoptability Screening
- Adoption Assistance Program Benefits after Age 18
- Adoption Tellings
- Adoptive Placement Process for Birth Parent Voluntary Relinquishment Cases
- Adoptive Placement with a Private Agency Out of State
- Changing Placements After Termination of Parental Rights / .26(n) Procedures
- Determining Eligibility for the Adoption Assistance Program
- Developmental Psychological Assessment Policy for Children being Adopted
- Exceptions to Adoption
- Hague Convention Protocols
- ICAMA
- Independent Adoptions
- Marital Status of Applicants
- Matching Policy for Children Needing Adoptive Placement
- Nonrecurring Expenses
- Placement Paperwork and Apostille Process for Mexico Cases
- Placement Paperwork and Finalization
- Post Adoption Sibling Contact
- Private Adoption Agency Reimbursement Program (PAARP)
- Procedures regarding Unavailability of Documents for Adoption Finalization
- Processing a New AAP Packet
- Recommending a Permanent Plan Other than Adoption
- Request for Completion of a New AAP Packet
- Stepparent Adoption
- Ten Year Age Difference Between Prospective Adoptive Parent and a Child Being Adopted
Child abuse reporting
Child and Family Well-Being acronyms
Confidentiality
Congregate care
Continuing services
- 388 Motions on Guardianship by Parents or Guardians
- CANS (Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths)
- CalWORKs Reunification Cases
- Changing a Permanent Plan
- Concurrent Services Planning
- Courtesy Supervision – General
- Guardianship
- Guardianship Placement Payment
- How to Determine an Appropriate Permanent Plan
- Identification of Court-Ordered Family Maintenance (FM) Services
- Identification of Court-Ordered Family Reunification (FR) Services
- Identification of Court-Ordered Permanent Placement (PP) Services
- Referrals for a PP Assessment
- Request for an Independent Guardianship
- Termination of Services
- Transferring a Case to PPAU (Permanency Planning Assessment Unit)
Court procedures
- Addendum Court Reports
- Additional Information
- Attorney Appointments
- Change of Placement (COP) Requirements
- Children’s Attendance at Court
- Communication with Attorneys
- Court Appearance for Parents in Correctional Facilities
- Court Reports Overview and Distribution
- Court-Appointed Special Advocate – CASA
- Credit Reports
- Declaration of Parentage
- Dependency Drug Court Program (DDCP)
- Ex Parte Requests
- Family Finding – Relative/NREFM Searches
- Inter-County Transfers (ICTs)
- Interpreters for Court Hearings
- Juvenile Court Custody Orders (Exit Orders)
- Juvenile Court Overview
- Kids and Teens in Court
- Non-Custodial Parents
- Notice – Non-citizens, Hague Convention
- Notice for Court Hearings
- Paternity Opportunity Program (POP)
- Paternity Testing
- Petitions (Motions) – 388
- Protective Custody Warrants (PCWs)
- Recommending Guardianship at the Dispositional Hearing
- Requesting Protective Measures at Court
- Role of Court Officers
- Social Workers’ Attendance at Court
- Termination of Jurisdiction
- Testifying in Court
- Types of Hearings – Contempt
- Types of Hearings – Contested
- Types of Hearings – Detention/Initial
- Types of Hearings – Disposition
- Types of Hearings – Jurisdiction and SCO
- Types of Hearings – Pre-Trial Settlement Conferences (PSCs)
- Types of Hearings – Review
- Types of Hearings – Special
- Types of Hearings – WIC 366.26 (“.26”)
- Types of Hearings-15-Day Review
- WIC 300 Petitions – Descriptions and Documentation
- Wanted Notice and Order of Detention
Cross program – case files
Cross program – contacts
Cross program – court related
Cross program – drug and alcohol
Cross program – early childhood services
Cross program – education
Cross program – emergencies
Cross program – intra-County communication
Cross program – medical
Cross program – mental health
Cross program – social work practice
- Body Checks
- Case Consultation
- Case Plans
- Case Transfers
- Child and Family Team Meetings
- Civil Rights Requirements
- Closing Cases
- Commercial Sexual Exploitation – Identification Tool (CSE-IT)
- Human Trafficking Task Force (HTTF)
- Importing Photos into CWS/CMS
- Incarcerated Parents
- Intensive Family Preservation Program (IFPP)
- Interviewing a Child at School
- Investigative Search Warrants (ISWs)
- Live Scan – Application, Corrections, and Follow-Up
- Live Scan – Procedures, ID, Locations and Results
- Live Scan – Reject Notices and Resubmission
- Live Scan – Subsequent Arrest Notification
- Live Scan Operator Certification
- Parent Searches
- Passports – How to Obtain
- Safe at Home
- Safety Alerts
- Search Clerk Handbook
- Structured Decision Making (SDM)
- Visitation
- Visitation Services
- Youth Missing from Care
Cross program – support services
Cross program – visitation
Emergency response
- Abuse Allegations Received by Non-Hotline CFWB Staff
- CI Procedures
- Centralized Assignment Team (CAT)
- ER – Authority to Take Custody of Child
- ER – Closing Referrals
- ER – Investigations
- ER – Protection Timelines
- ER- Changing Response Determination
- ER- Open Case Investigations
- Hospital Holds
- Hotline – Assignment of Referrals
- Hotline – Child Fatality Near Fatality
- Hotline – Cross County Referrals
- Hotline – Function and Procedure
- Hotline – Priority of Referrals
- Hotline – Referral Screening Criteria
- Hotline – Sensitive Referrals
- Injuries to Children in Open Office of Child Safety (OCS) Cases or Investigations
- Investigation Responsibilities by Program
- Military Investigations
- Protective Custody Warrants (PCWs)
- STRTP Investigations
- Safely Surrendered Babies
- Safety Plans
- Standby After-Hours Investigations
- WIC 329 Referrals
Payment
Placement services
- Assets of Minor and Nonminor Dependents in Foster Care
- California Driver’s License and Identification Cards
- Caregiver/Resource Parent’s Reporting Responsibility
- Change of Placement (COP) Requirements When Notice is Given to Move Child/Youth
- Confidential Placements
- Consent by the Substitute Care Provider (SCP)
- Emergency Placement Process
- Foster Care Placement Types
- Foster Child Injections
- Foster Family Agencies (FFAs)
- Foster Youth Bill of Rights
- Good Cause
- Grievance Review by SCP or Parent
- Incoming ICPCs
- Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) – Outgoing
- Level of Care (LOC) Foster Care Rate Determination
- Moving a Child from a Resource Home Notice (RFA/LFH/Relative/NREFM/FFA)
- NEST
- Out-of-County Placement
- Placement Coordinators Office (PCO)
- Placement Expectations for SW
- Placement Expectations for the SCP
- Placement Support Services
- Quality Parenting Review (QPR)
- Regional Placement Staff
- Relative and Non-Relative Extended Family Member Approvals
- Resource Parent Insurance
- Respite Care Support Services
- Revocations/Rescissions of Approvals
- SW Expectations While the Child Is in Placement
- Sibling Placements
Polinksy Children’s Center
- Achievement Center
- Donations
- Polinsky Children’s Center – Absent Without Leave (AWOL)
- Polinsky Children’s Center – Inspection and Contraband Procedures
- Polinsky Children’s Center – Approved Outings, Appointments, and Passes
- Polinsky Children’s Center – Continuum of Interventions
- Polinsky Children’s Center Entries
- Professional Assault Crisis Training (Pro-ACT)
- Special Incident Reports (SIR)
- Staff Expectations – Polinsky Children’s Center
- Visitation – Polinsky Children’s Center
Resource family approval
Special populations – Extended Foster Care
Special populations – Indian child welfare
Special populations – international child welfare
- Courtesy Home Evaluations for Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (DIF).pdf
- International Liaison
- International Social Services
- Repatriation of Children
- Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)
- U Visas
- Undocumented Children
- Working with Families Involved in Immigration and Customs Enforcement Proceedings
Special populations – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning (LGBTQ+)
Special populations – other populations
Special populations – youth transitioning from foster care
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Page last updated August 5, 2026
