Sacramento County Department of Child, Family, and Adult Services

Child Protective Services

• Sacramento County Resource Family Approval (RFA) program offers training, support, and guidance to resource families.
• The Independent Living Program (ILP) is a federally funded program which assists current and former foster youth between the ages of 16 and 21 achieve self sufficiency prior to, and after, exiting the foster care system.
• The goal of Extended Foster Care (AB12) is to assist foster youth in maintaining a safety net of support while experiencing independence in a secure and supervised living environment. The extended time as a non-minor dependent can assist the youth in becoming better prepared for successful transition into adulthood and self-sufficiency through education and employment training.​
• Sacramento County is a state licensed adoption agency. As a public adoption agency, children available are dependents of Sacramento County Juvenile Court. These children have been removed from their biological parents. The Adoptions program staff is responsible for assessing if adoption is the best plan for the child. They strive to ensure that a child and adoptive family are well-matched, and that the family will help the child develop to his or her fullest potential.

Senior & Adult Services

• The Senior and Adult Serv​ices Division​ (SAS) is committed to serving older adults and people living with disability by providing protection from abuse, neglect and exploitation while striving to preserve independence and self-determination. ​