Rosemary Children's Services

The Residential Program: Provides teen girls who have suffered neglect, abuse, and emotional disturbances with a safe home and counseling. Our five residential homes provide girls ages 13 to 18 with short-term (6 to 12 months) placement while we help prepare them for reunification with their families, long-term placement with a caring resource family, or emancipation from the foster care system. This year we served 114 teenage girls in our program.In March 2018 our Residential Program transitioned to a Short-Term Residential Treatment Program (STRTP) in accordance with California AB 403, Continuum of Care Reform. This allowed us to increase staff to child ratios, intensify mental health services and provide more aftercare services through our Mental Health Contract in order to achieve shorter length of stays and long-term success.

Foster Family Agency, Intensive Services Foster Care and Adoptions Program: Our Foster Family Agency provides home-based family care for children. In addition, we recruit, certify and train resource parents, provide professional support to resource parents and assist in finding homes or other temporary or permanent placements for children who require more intensive care. Our social workers visit our resource families each week and families have access to our Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, ensuring a successful foster care or adoption experience for both child and family. This year under our Foster Care Program 259 children received placement services and 23 children were adopted.Our Intensive Services Foster Care Program (ISFC) provides home-based family care for eligible children whose needs for safety, permanency, and well-being require specially trained resource parents and intensive professional and paraprofessional services and support in order to remain in a home-based setting, or to avoid or exit congregate care. ISFC resource parents are specially trained and are part of the treatment team, which is comprised of a therapist, a foster care social worker and in-home support counselor who visit the home regularly and offer counseling, emotional support, mentoring and modeling skills for both the foster child and resource parents. This year we were able to train and transition our Foster Families into Resource Families as required by California AB 403, Continuum of Care Reform and 16 children received placement services under our Intensive Services Foster Care Program.