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Family Urgent Response System (FURS) is a coordinated statewide, regional, and county-level system designed to provide collaborative and timely state-level phone-based response and county-level in-home, in-person mobile response during situations of instability, to preserve the relationship of the caregiver and the child or youth.
How FURS can help:
- Provide current and former foster youth and their caregivers with immediate, trauma-informed support when they need it.
- Prevent placement moves.
- Preserve the relationship between the child or youth and their caregiver.
- Provide a trauma-informed alternative for families who previously resorted to calling 911 or law enforcement.
- Reduce hospitalizations, law enforcement contacts, and placement in out-of-home facilities.
- Promote healing as a family.
- Improve retention of current foster caregivers.
- Promote stability for youth in foster care, including youth in extended foster care.
FURS Services Include:
- A toll-free hotline available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week staffed with caring counselors trained in conflict resolution and de-escalation techniques for children and youth impacted by trauma.
- County Mobile Response System and Stabilization Teams also available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- In-home de-escalation, stabilization, conflict resolution, and support services and resources.
- Ongoing support services beyond the initial mobile response.
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Hotline and mobile response staff trained in working with children and families who have experienced trauma
If you need assistance you can call or text the toll-free Cal-FURS hotline at (833) 939-3877.