Recommendation R2.11.1
To improve coordination between DCFS, DMH, and other departments, and to children and families in foster care: Provide field social workers with mobile applications to search for support services in the area and coordinate with the organizations that supply it. For example, when a DCFS social worker determines that a family needs extra food to keep the child at home, they should be able to use their phone to find community-based organizations in a centralized and coordinated application with confirmed readily available resources in the area that can help and call them right away to schedule the food delivery or pick-up.
Jury report: Los Angeles County Foster Care · PDF page 142
Permanent linkOfficial response
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (consolidated County departmental response)
Agency says implementedFor the shared coordination objective, County agrees and claims partial implementation using mobile devices, 2-1-1 and CareConnect. It expressly says additional enhancements are needed for the comprehensive real-time field application; response does not promise a finished application or deployment date.
Read official response · PDF page 36Editorial engagement review of the answer, not confirmation of implementation. For the shared coordination objective, County agrees and claims partial implementation using mobile devices, 2-1-1 and CareConnect. It expressly says additional enhancements are needed for the comprehensive real-time field application; response does not promise a finished application or deployment date. Report physical PDF page(s) 142; County response physical PDF page(s) 36–37. Claims remain attributed; adoption date is not a filing or receipt date.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.