"The time is now and we are 25 min late"
Care providers are the front-line soldiers and the backbone of California’s vast and complex care system—serving millions of children, adults with disabilities, and older adults. Yet despite our essential role, we are routinely subjected to disrespectful, corrupt, and morally bankrupt bureaucratic practices that gum up the work and disrupt continuity of care.
Providers have been denied a real voice. Policies are too often created by “think tanks” and credentialed decision-makers who have never operated residential care—yet they write rules that harm residents and make quality care harder, sometimes impossible. Providers are buried under massive paperwork when our focus should be on outstanding service delivery. And despite pay reform efforts, providers are still paid late—creating instability for staffing, operations, and the people we serve.
Systemic inequity against minority-led providers
There is no meaningful upward mobility for minority-led care provider programs within California’s foster care system or the broader congregate care systems. The existing hierarchy overwhelmingly favors large, well-funded, Caucasian-led programs—and that imbalance has been deliberately maintained.
CCLD: targeted harassment instead of fair regulation
Leadership within the Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) has engaged in practices that disproportionately target, destabilize, and harass Black- and Brown-led programs. Rather than supporting compliance and improvement, CCLD has used its authority to hinder growth, block fair competition, and in some cases force closures—especially when minority programs attempt to expand or compete.
Regional Centers: deliberate contract and funding disparities
Regional Centers deliberately withhold lucrative contracts from minority-led providers. Research studies show significant disparities in funding and service authorization for minority consumers. Black and Brown consumers’ high-dollar services are systematically reduced, cut, or defunded at alarming rates—undermining both the people receiving care and the providers trying to serve them.
AB 403: elimination, then return—without a path back for those pushed out
Assembly Bill 403 was publicly framed as legislation to improve foster care outcomes, but in practice it eliminated the group home licensure category in a way that disproportionately shut down African American–led programs. At the time, the justification was that foster youth would no longer be placed in group homes.
That claim has proven false.
The licensure category has effectively returned in new form, and foster youth are again being placed in congregate settings.
This raises a critical question:
**If the policy rationale was reversed, why were the minority programs closed under AB 403 not given a fair pathway to reinstatement or relicensure?**
A manufactured monopoly and a punitive licensing pipeline
Instead, the system has helped create monopoly conditions. Approximately 30 programs—primarily large, well-connected organizations—were granted licenses, while minority-led programs were pushed through excessive, punitive, and seemingly elimination-driven licensing processes. This has destroyed competition and removed any realistic pathway for smaller or minority-led programs to advance.
Retaliation and cover-ups
CCLD routinely shields other government agencies when abuse or neglect of foster children occurs. When providers question procedures, challenge inconsistencies, or report misconduct, we are often met with retaliation, harassment, and targeted enforcement—not transparency or accountability.
The foster care system is not broken by accident. It is broken because it is being run by individuals and leadership structures that tolerate corruption, suppress dissent, and perpetuate systemic inequity.
United in our mission
The UFPCCC is calling for **ALL California providers** to organize—to march, to protest, and to write your legislative representatives. We must take this to the public. We must speak to the press. We must tell the truth about how providers are treated and how that mistreatment harms the precious souls we care for.
As taxpayers. Why are we paying into a system that mistreats and sabotages the people doing the work?
We are not going to change the system by playing the same games the bureaucrats want us to play. This is their chessboard—not ours. How do you win a fixed and crooked game? You don’t play it.
UFPCCC and our members intend to hold the Legislature—up to and including the Governor—accountable for this broken system.
Yes providers let’a go! Let call out corruption where we find it, loud and clear. We will expose currupt buracratic systems and the legislators that allow them to operate to the public
That is what the UFPCCC (501(c) 4 was formed to do. Our mission is clear and god willing we will be successful. God willing.