b. Continue aggressive program to secure Social Security disability or SSI benefits for all clients who may qualify.

c . Expand the County's child support program to collect payment from absent parents and reduce welfare dependency.

d. Fully implement staffing, structure and procedural changes needed to achieve federal Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) standards and outcomes that ensure the safety of children and lead to permanent homes with reduced length of stay in foster care.

e. Refine and enhance case management linkage for households in receipt of Public Assistance who are also in receipt of Child Welfare Services so that employment barriers of the parent and child welfare issues of the family are move comprehensively addressed.

f. Continue and expand a "kinship" program to encourage family placements as an alternate to foster care, which can help the children, as well as save County money.

g. Expand current diversion and transitional support services to reduce the need for welfare assistance, provide more intensive services to those on welfare to hasten a successful permanent exit, and implement extended hours to serve employed clients as they leave welfare.

h. Expand diversion services degisned to avoid expensive foster care placement, consistent with the safety and welfare of children, and to hasten the return home or to finalize adoptions for those children in foster care placements.

i. Develop and impliment a strategy and program of services for Hard to Serve Children in conjunction with other County Human Services departments and the Family Court.

j. Implement a "Wrap Around" service delivery model on a pilot basis for children at risk of out-of-home placement.