The Putting Pride into Practice Project (P-4) was created to provide California counties the support, resources and technical assistance necessary to implement the recommendations of the Best Practice Guidelines for Serving LGBT Youth in Out-of-Home Care as well as the mandates stipulated in California’s Foster Care Nondiscrimination Act. The project focuses on:

1. developing policies, implementing best practices and promoting training and organizational culture change at the county level;
2. building long-term capacity and support for this effort at the state level;
3. developing best practices for the collection of data on LGBTQ youth in out of home care; and
4. Dissemination of existing and development of new resources to support LGBTQ youth in out of home care.

The Putting Pride into Practice Project has selected four culturally and geographically diverse counties in which to pilot the project: Santa Clara, Orange, San Francisco, and Fresno. The ultimate goal of the project is to expand to all 58 counties throughout the state so that all child welfare professionals are armed with the information and resources they need to best support LGBTQ youth. In addition to the four pilot counties, the project also works with California’s Community Care Licensing (CCL) to ensure a high level of LGBTQ-competency within the state’s licensing infrastructure.

Rob Woronoff, MS
Director
Putting Pride into Practice Project
(510) 435-3724
rworonoff@familybuilders.org