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Committee approves bill to place domestic violence consultants in child welfare offices (AB 779)
Summary
AB 779 passed the Assembly Human Services Committee. The bill would scale a pilot program that embeds domestic violence consultants inside child welfare offices to help social workers understand family dynamics and avoid penalizing survivors.
Assemblymember Lackey presented AB 779, a bill to scale a pilot that embeds domestic violence consultants in Department of Child and Family Services offices to advise social workers responding to cases involving domestic violence. The author said the pilot in the Antelope Valley yielded trauma-informed, family-centered outcomes and that the…
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