Funding for CPS is allocated from federal, state and county sources. Federal and state funding is available only if the county provides matching funds. The programs and services provided by CPS are intended to protect children from abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Current services encompass responding to emergencies involving the well being of children.
They are aimed at preserving or maintaining families, the reunification of families, adjudication, assistance with adoptions and intervention-type services. There are 592 licensed foster family homes in Riverside County. The majority of these licensed foster homes will accommodate children from ages two to seventeen years, with some homes accommodating infants up to twenty-three months. Social workers are traditionally devoted and overworked. There are as many as 40,000 case referrals a year made to the Riverside Juvenile Court.