Q: What counties does each academy serve?

A: A list of the counties served and coordinating partners follows. You can also view a map of the Regional Training Academies and the counties they serve.

• Bay Area Academy
  
• Central California Child Welfare Training Academy
  
• Inter-University Consortium
  
• Northern California Training Academy
  
• Public Child Welfare Training Academy—Southern Region
  
• Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice

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• The Bay Area Academy serves the social services staff of the following 12 counties in the San Francisco Bay Area:
  
  

  Alameda	San Francisco
  Contra Costa	San Mateo
  Marin	Santa Clara
  Monterey	Santa Cruz
  Napa	Solano
  San Benito	Sonoma

  
  The academy operates in collaboration with the Bay Area Social Services Consortium, composed of Bay Area directors of county social services agencies, deans or directors of four graduate social work programs (UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, and CSU, Sacramento), and foundation representatives. Other academy partners include the counties’ Child Welfare Services administrators and staff development directors, as well as Title IV-E project coordinators from the Master of Social Work (MSW) programs at the four schools.
  
  Rodger Lum is the academy's director.
  

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• The Central California Child Welfare Training Academy serves the following 11 counties
  
  

  Fresno	San Luis Obispo
  Kern	Santa Barbara
  Kings	Stanislaus
  Madera	Tulare
  Mariposa	Ventura
  Merced

  
  The academy operates under the leadership of a collaborative Board of Directors composed of county welfare directors; a representative of the California Department of Social Services; the Dean of CSU, Fresno, College of Health and Human Services; and the Director of the MSW Program at CSU, Stanislaus. Additionally, the County Welfare Directors Association Regional Children’s Services Sub-Committee operates as an advisory body to the academy staff and board.
  
  David Foster is the project director
  

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• The Inter-University Consortium serves the County of Los Angeles. It is a collaboration of four universities: UCLA, the University of Southern California, CSU, Long Beach, and CSU, Los Angeles. It works closely with the Los Angeles Department of Children's and Family Services.
  
  William Donnelly is the director.
  

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• The Northern California Training Academy serves the following 29 counties:
  
  

  Alpine	Lake	Shasta
  Amador	Lassen	Sierra
  Butte	Mendocino	Siskiyou
  Calaveras	Modoc	Sutter
  Colusa	Mono	Tehama
  Del Norte	Nevada	Trinity
  El Dorado	Placer	Tuolumne
  Glenn	Plumas	Yolo
  Humboldt	Sacramento	Yuba
  Inyo	San Joaquin

  
  The academy is part of The Center for Human Services located at the UC Davis Extension.
  
  Susan Brooks is the director.
  

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• The Public Child Welfare Training Academy—Southern Region is a collaborative venture of San Diego State University; CSU, San Bernardino; and Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego Counties. The academy operates under a Board of Directors composed of the directors of county social services agencies, the directors of the region’s three schools of social work (San Diego State University, Loma Linda University, and CSU, San Bernardino), and academy Training Planning Committee representatives.
  
  Donald E. Dudley is the director.
  

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• The Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice serves the state of California. It is part of of The Center for Human Services located at UC Davis Extension.
  
  Deborah Yip is the director.