FURS

FURS Telephone number: 833-939-3877

Family Urgent Response System (FURS)

FURS is a state-wide initiative designed to provide mobile response teams comprised of compassionate, trained professionals who are available to provide face-to-face support during situations of family instability, to preserve the relationship of the caregiver and the child or youth. Behavioral Health is part of a team consisting of adult and child service workers and probation officers. While this may sound intimidating it's important to remember that the goal of FURS response is family stabilization. 

What does FURS do?

• 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 includes the following services:

• 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.
• Hotline and mobile response staff trained in working with children and families who have experienced trauma.

* The above information was provided, in part, by the California Department of Social Services