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Every child that comes into care has an urgent need to be restored by loving, healthy, committed, and consistent connections, whether it is their biological family or a Resource Family or a willing person who has stepped up to the plate to love, care for, and nurture any child who comes into their home or their life. Data shows that children thrive when they know they are loved and have a sense of belonging. Los Angeles County Probation Child Welfare partnered with Daley Solutions in 2019 to recruit and match youth to caring adults and have learned valuable lessons along the way. Probation foster youth have endured trauma to such great depths that finally belonging to a family or developing a loving relationship hurts and triggers feelings with which they have not had to face. We will share our trauma-informed approach that has brought us some successful matches that continue to this day. They are by far not perfect, but much more than our youth have ever had, giving them an added resource that will help them in many ways as they transition into adulthood. Los Angeles County Probation Child Welfare has worked with external and internal stakeholders to support youth in a trauma-informed way as they navigate new relationships. This is an approach that leads to exceptional outcomes for children, young adults, and those in their lives!
Presenters:
Lisa Campbell-Motton, Los Angeles County, Probation Child Welfare Director is a Los Angeles County Probation Child Welfare Director, over Placement Permanency & Quality Assurance (PPQA), a monitoring agency for Probation Child Welfare, with oversight of the C-CFSR and implementation of the countywide System Improvement Plan (SIP), along with Los Angeles County child welfare partners. Her PPQA Team conducts Federal Case Reviews, Family Finding, Adoptions & Legal Guardianships, Life Connection Matching, Residential Program Monitoring, Compliance Investigations, Child Abuse Investigations, and Resource Family Approvals. Ms. Campbell-Motton works with both internal and external stakeholders to improve outcomes for Probation foster youth in the areas of safety, well-being and permanency. She, her PPQA Team, Bench Officers and her colleagues in both child welfare and Probation child welfare achieved the first adoption in delinquency court and have gone on to complete four more, which are five (5) of seven (8) completed in the entire state. Her passion is seeing children achieve a place they can forever call home, no matter what their age.