California is in the process of making several changes to the foster care system, with the expressed goal of moving more children out of group homes and into the homes of foster parents and relative caregivers. One of the changes, under the Continuum of Care Reform (CCR), could affect parents taking in older foster youths regarding financial reimbursement. The new rate system for caregiver payments would now be based on the needs of the child (level of care), rather than the child’s age.“There’s not a lot of logic to using an age-based system,” said Angie Schwartz, policy director of the Alliance for Children’s Rights. “Some infants are going to have greater needs than 15-year-olds, and some 15-year-olds are going to have greater needs than an 8-year-old.”
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