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From Promise to Action: Updates on California’s Mandated Reporting Transformation

Novedades sobre la transformación del sistema
de denuncia obligatoria en California

 

This training was presented on
January 21, 2026

 

Este seminario virtual se presentará en inglés
con interpretación al español.

 

REPLAY & RESOURCES:

Note: Training certificates are only available following live trainings or completion of self-paced courses. A certificate will not be provided for review of these materials.

TRAINING DETAILS:

This panel presentation will invite the audience to engage in California’s shift from mandated reporting to community supporting to safely keep families together in their communities.

California has advanced a bold vision of family well-being, bolstered by the Family First Prevention Services Act. A critical step forward has been the recommendations of the Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting Task Force, a statewide group grounded in county participation, lived expertise, and action.

Reforming mandated reporting is essential to rebuilding trust at the local and county levels so other child and family well-being efforts can take root—especially amongst traditionally overrepresented populations in the child protective services system.

Formal implementation of the recommendations is well underway, with the first Semi-Annual Report to the Child Welfare Council (CWC) having been presented on December 3, 2025. Additionally, three of the recommendations are already in statute with SB 119, including codifying the Mandated Reporting Advisory Committee’s work to ensure the transformation of mandated reporting to community supporting continues and disparities in the child welfare system are eliminated.

Some counties are already laying the groundwork. In addition to overviewing the recommendations and implementation strategy and plan, the presenters will discuss county examples and invite the audience to scaffold ideas for turning statewide recommendations into county-level action.

 

Learners will be able to:

  • Understand the need for, and impact of, engaging multiple diverse stakeholders—emphasizing individuals with lived expertise and experience—to set a vision for change and strategically engage at the state and county levels to move to action.
  • Engage in shifting the statewide narrative from reporting families as the only way to keep children safe, to one of communities having the tools to support families so children can remain safely at home.
  • Understand how the mandated reporting to community supporting recommendations can align with other vital components of county and state work, including the Integrated Core Practice Model, AB 2083 System of Care, and FFPS/CPPs, to remove barriers to accessing services.
  • Review findings and recommendations from the California Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting Task Force, emphasizing strategies to decrease unnecessary reports and foster community support.

 

Este panel de presentación invitará al público a participar en el proceso de transición de California, que pasa de la denuncia obligatoria al apoyo comunitario para mantener a las familias unidas en sus comunidades de forma segura. 

California ha promovido una visión audaz del bienestar de la familia, respaldada por la Ley Family First Prevention Services. Un paso fundamental ha sido la elaboración de las recomendaciones del Equipo de Trabajo de Apoyo Comunitario a la Denuncia Obligatoria, un equipo estatal basado en la participación de los condados, la experiencia vivida y la acción.

Para restablecer la confianza a nivel local y regional y poder desarrollar otras iniciativas destinadas al bienestar de los niños y las familias, especialmente entre las poblaciones tradicionalmente sobrerrepresentadas en el sistema de servicios de protección infantil, es esencial reformar la obligación de denunciar. 

La implementación formal de las recomendaciones está muy avanzada y el primer informe semestral al Consejo de Bienestar Infantil (CWC, por sus siglas en inglés) se presentó el 3 de diciembre de 2025. Además, tres de las recomendaciones se han incorporado a la ley SB 119, entre ellas la codificación del trabajo del Comité Asesor de Denuncia Obligatoria, con el fin de garantizar la continuidad de la transformación de las denuncias obligatorias en apoyo a la comunidad y la eliminación de las disparidades en el sistema de bienestar infantil.

 Algunos condados ya están sentando las bases. Además de ofrecer una visión general de las recomendaciones, la estrategia y el plan de implementación, los ponentes analizarán ejemplos de condados e invitarán al público a aportar ideas para convertir las recomendaciones estatales en acciones a nivel de condado.

 

Los participantes:

  • Comprenderán la necesidad y el impacto de involucrar a las diversas partes interesadas, haciendo hincapié en las personas con conocimientos y experiencia, para establecer una visión de cambio y participar estratégicamente a nivel estatal y municipal y pasar a la acción.
  • Participarán en el cambio de la narrativa estatal, en la que se pasará de informar sobre las familias como única forma de mantener a los niños seguros a informar sobre cómo las comunidades pueden disponer de las herramientas necesarias para apoyar a las familias, de modo que los niños puedan permanecer seguros en sus hogares.
  • Comprenderán cómo la obligación de denunciar puede alinearse con otros componentes vitales del trabajo del condado y del estado, como el Modelo Integrado de Prácticas Básicas, el Sistema de Atención AB 2083 y los FFPS/CPP, para eliminar las barreras de acceso a los servicios.
  • Revisarán los resultados y recomendaciones del grupo de trabajo de California sobre la denuncia obligatoria a la comunidad (California Mandate Reporting to Community Supporting Task Force), haciendo hincapié en las estrategias para reducir las denuncias innecesarias y fomentar el apoyo de la comunidad.

 

Who should attend: County staff and leaders working in child welfare, FRC staff and leadership, CAPCs, CBOs, advocacy groups, and professionals and leaders in groups that have the highest mandated reporting rates (education, healthcare, and law enforcement)

 


IMPORTANT TRAINING INFORMATION:

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Janay Eustace serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of California’s Child Abuse Prevention Center (CAPC), a role she assumed in November 2023. Eustace brings more than 20 years of advocacy experience to the role, most recently elevating the California Youth Connection during her tenure as Executive Director. Eustace has held key roles at several prominent organizations and agencies, including the Youth Law Center (YLC), the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), the County Welfare Directors Association (CWDA), and Sacramento County’s Department of Health and Human Services, specifically within Child Protective Services.

 

JANAY EUSTACE

President & CEO,
California Child Abuse Prevention Center

 

Juan Solis is the Father Engagement Coordinator in San Bernardino County. He is a former system-involved father and has used his experience in the child welfare system to assist other fathers and provide insight and consultation to systems and programs to enhance their father engagement efforts. For over a decade, Juan Solis has become a fatherhood advocate by highlighting the importance of fathers in the family unit and in the community. He has worked as a parent partner before becoming the Father Engagement Coordinator in San Bernardino County. 

Juan served on the former Mandating Reporting to Community Supporting Task Force subcommittee, chairs the Inland Empire Father Involvement Coalition in San Bernardino County California, serves as a Family Consultant with the Capacity Building Center for States through the Children’s Bureau and is a trainer/coach/ facilitator for San Diego State University Public Child Welfare Training Academy – Child Welfare Development Services. 

Through his spiritual walk and recovery Juan has shared his testimony of change in various platforms with the hopes of spreading the message that strengthening fathers strengthens our communities and that change is possible. Juan was selected as a 2019 Top 25 Nominee for the Man of the Year Award. Juan is a husband and father of 4 amazing children and guardian of 2 awesome nephews. Juan coaches’ soccer in his spare time, assisting in enriching children’s life through the world of sports.

 

JUAN SOLIS

Father Engagement Coordinator,
Children’s Network, San Bernardino County

 

Alicia Garoupa (pronouns: she/her) is proud to serve as the first Chief of Wellbeing and Support Services with the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) since 2022. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with almost 25 years of social work and educational leadership experience. Her approach emphasizes equity-driven, student-focused, and data-informed universal prevention strategies, grounded in the Multi-Tiered System of Support framework. She is committed to serving and supporting our children, youth, families, school communities, and school districts toward an educational model that nurtures and affirms the whole child/person, embraces all families as true, equal partners, centers social and racial justice, belonging, and wellbeing, and ultimately, delivers on the promise of public education through systemic, human-centered approaches. 

She began her career as a Children’s Social Worker with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, where she served as both a case-carrying social worker and an emergency response investigator. Her professional service in schools began in 2001 as a Pupil Services and Attendance Counselor at South Park Elementary School in South Los Angeles. She has served in communities across the region, ultimately becoming a support services administrator in 2013. Prior to joining LACOE, she was the Administrator for the Division of Student Health and Human Services with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), where she oversaw Pupil Services and Attendance, Student Support Services, School Mental Health, District Nursing, Wellness Programs, Student Medical Services and Medi-Cal Programs, Human Relations, Diversity and Equity, Restorative Justice, and Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports teams and services. She earned her Master of Social Welfare degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and her Bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fresno.

 

 

 

ALICIA GAROUPA

Chief of Wellbeing & Support Services,
Los Angeles County Office of Education