Family Urgent Response System (FURS) is a coordinated statewide, regional, and county-level system designed to provide collaborative and timely state-level phone-based response and county-level in-home, in-person mobile response during situations of instability, to preserve the relationship of the caregiver and the child or youth.

How FURS can help:

1. Provide current and former foster youth and their caregivers with immediate, trauma-informed support when they need it.
2. Prevent placement moves.
3. Preserve the relationship between the child or youth and their caregiver.
4. Provide a trauma-informed alternative for families who previously resorted to calling 911 or law enforcement.
5. Reduce hospitalizations, law enforcement contacts, and placement in out-of-home facilities.
6. Promote healing as a family.
7. Improve retention of current foster caregivers.
8. Promote stability for youth in foster care, including youth in extended foster care.

FURS Services Include:

• 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

If you need assistance you can call or text the toll-free Cal-FURS hotline at (833) 939-3877.

Cal-FURS Website

Email Cal-FURS at info@cal-furs.org