The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) is a state-supervised, county-administered system that provides oversight of programs that affect nearly 3 millions of California’s most vulnerable residents—foster children and youth, children and families receiving aid through the California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), adults and elderly in licensed community care facilities and aged, blind and disabled recipients requiring in-home supportive services or Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI-SSP) assistance. The department is 1 of 16 under the umbrella of the Health and Human Services Agency. It has around 4,200 employees located in 51 offices throughout the state, and 58 county welfare departments, offices and community-based organizations.