Rachel Kuhr is the Chief Program Officer. She oversees all services to children in foster and pre-adoptive homes approved by JFS and  provides private home study services.  Rachel  also coordinates and supervises services provided by program staff to children through the Statewide Adoption Network (SWAN).  This includes coordination with county providers and other foster care agencies as well as work with the state contract agency on policy and planning for these services.   She supervises services in the Post Permanency support program, for families after adoption or guardianship.  Rachel was instrumental in developing the Family Based Mental Health program at JFS.

Prior to joining JFS in 2003, Rachel worked in an Intensive Family Preservation program locally, as well as in a Child Welfare agency in California.  She was an outpatient therapist from 2000-2016. Rachel holds a LCSW from the School of Social Work at the University of California, Berkeley.