Santa Barbara County's new Intensive Therapeutic Foster Care Program (ITFC) enables us to place more children with mental health or emotional challenges with local foster families, rather than in out-of-town institutional settings.
The news was carried in the Santa Maria Sun...
http://www.santamariasun.com/news/11510/new-therapeutic-foster-care-program-helps-children-in-need/
the Santa Barbara Independent...
http://independent.com/news/2014/may/09/efforts-underway-keep-special-needs-foster-kids-co/
and the Lompoc Record.
http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/local/county-set-to-begin-therapeutic-foster-care/article_1d402a54-e239-11e3-8602-001a4bcf887a.html
