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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Each county or region shall, in implementing their respective programs, provide the following key intervention strategies to ensure the following:
(a) Adequate levels of supervision, structure, and support to minors and their families both during and after the intervention and treatment process, in order to accomplish the following:
(1) Ensure protection of the community, the minor, and his or her family.
(2) Facilitate the development of new patterns of thinking and behavior.
(3) Eliminate any obvious stumbling blocks to the family's progress.
(4) Facilitate the development of enhanced parenting skills and parent-child relationships.
(b) Accountability on the part of the minor for his or her actions and assistance to the minor in developing a greater awareness and sensitivity to the impact of his or her actions on both people and situations.
(c) Assistance to families in their efforts to ensure that minors are attending school regularly.
(d) Assistance to the minor in developing strategies for attaining and reinforcing educational success.
(e) Promotion and development of positive social values, behavior, and relationships by providing opportunities for the minor to directly help people; to improve his or her community; to participate in positive leisure-time activities specially chosen to match his or her individual interests, skills, and abilities; and to have greater access and exposure to positive adult and juvenile role models.
(f) Promotion of partnerships between public and private agencies to develop individualized intervention strategies which shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Delivery of services in close proximity to the minor's or the minor's family's home.
(2) Community case advocates to assist in building bridges of trust, communication, and understanding between the minor, the family, and all treatment and intervention agents.
(g) Provision of a continuum of care with strong followup services that continue to be available to the minor and family as long as needed, not just on a crisis basis.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - California Code, Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 748 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/welfare-and-institutions-code/wic-sect-748/
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