Los Angeles County DCFS

Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services provides a comprehensive system of child protection programs to ensure that children grow up safe, physically and emotionally healthy, educated and in permanent homes. Its improved permanence program shortens the timeliness for permanency for children removed from their families, with a particular emphasis on reunification, kinship and adoption. The department s improved safety program aims to reduce the recurrence rate of abuse and neglect for children, and reduce the rate of abuse in foster care. It also offers programs to reduced reliance on detention through expansion of alternative community-based strategies. The department s program services also include American Indian Child, Medical Placement Unit, Minor Parent-Teen Pregnancy Disincentive, Black Family Investment, Public Health Nursing, Central Los Angeles Sexual Abuse Unit, Rites of Passage, Child Sexual Abuse, Runaway Adolescent and Deaf Services Unit programs.

The Civil Service Commission is a Charter-mandated body in Los Angeles, CA, serving as the appellate body for major disciplinary actions, discrimination complaints, and appeals of scored portions of examinations filed by County employees within the Civil Service System. Additionally, the Commission acts as the administrative appeals body for several cities that have direct contracts with the County, ensuring fair and just proceedings in matters related to employment and civil service.Generated from the website