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DCFS's operations involve investigating child welfare and abuse allegations, foster care, and adoption. DCFS files child welfare allegations in Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court, located in Monterey Park, California, and the Alfred J. McCourtney Juvenile Justice Center in Lancaster, California. DCFS is represented by Los Angeles County Counsel.
An autistic child. The struggle for services. The 911 calls. This is the harrowing story of how one mom scrambled to get help for her son and keep her head above water.
In 1953 the Compton development Center was established [6] with programs designed for teens. In the late 1950s, the YWCA Greater Los Angeles began operation of a transient hotel for women and in 1965 the first Los Angeles Job Corps Center opened. By the late 1960s the YWCA established both the East Los Angeles and the Angeles Mesa Activity Centers.
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a nonprofit public charity dedicated to finding permanent homes for children waiting in foster care in the United States and Canada. [2] Created in 1992 by Wendy's founder Dave Thomas , who was adopted, the Foundation implements evidence-based, results-driven national service programs, foster care ...
More than 130 children were adopted in Los Angeles County on Saturday morning as part of a number of adoption ceremonies held across the country.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles is home to The Saban Research Institute (TSRI), one of the largest and most productive pediatric research centers in the Western United States. The institution conducts laboratory, clinical, translational and community research designed to investigate the developmental origins of health and disease.
A new study says that air pollution — specifically, the kind caused by car exhaust — may be a significant cause of rising rates of autism in children.. Exposure to nitric oxide (NO)— which ...
More adoptions occur in California each year than any other state (followed closely by New York). There is domestic adoption (adopting a non-relative child from within the United States), international adoption (adopting a non-relative child from another country), step parent adoption (adopting a child who is the legal child of one's spouse) and adult adoption (the adoption of an adult from ...