Technical Support Program
Resource Guides for Licensees

CCLD is committed to supporting licensees’ efforts to achieve and sustain compliance with the requirements of licensure. As a part of that commitment, the Technical Support Program offers Resource Guides, which licensees can use as a tool to understand the requirements of compliance. Resource Guides also sometimes provide best practice suggestions that licensees may choose to implement within their facility to not only meet, but exceed, the requirements of licensure.

These Resource Guides should not to be used as a substitute for knowing and understanding the statutory and regulatory requirements for licensure, or as the only tool licensees use to evaluate and measure their practices and policies.

If you have any questions about any of these guides, please contact the Technical Support Unit at Technicalsupportprogram@dss.ca.gov.

By Release Date

• 2016-02-Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard for Foster Families
• 2017-01 Medication Guide for Foster Families
• 2017-02- Adult Residential Facility- Self-Assessment Guide
• 2017-03- Medication Guide for Group Homes

By Program/Facility Type: Children’s Residential Program

• Healthy Sexual Development and Pregnancy Prevention for Youth in Foster Care- Revised
• Medications Guide for Foster Families
• Medications Guide for Group Homes

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center :

• Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression Guide for Children’s Residential Providers and Caregivers
• Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Children in Foster Care
• Raising Healthy and Happy LGBT and Gender Non-conforming Children

Adult and Senior Care Program

• Residential Care for the Elderly (RCFE): Medication Guide
• RCFE Self-Assessment Guide
• Adult Residential Facility (ARF) Self-Assessment Guide
• Hospice Care for RCFE
• Pressure Injuries Guide