Ronique Ross began her career with the Department of Children and Family Services in 1998 as a Children's Social Worker Trainee. Over the span of her career, she has held many roles including Supervising Children's Social Worker, Assistant Regional Administrator, and Children's Services Administrator whose focus was in supporting Transition Age Youth. Ms. Ross also served as the Special Assistant to the Chief Deputy Director and the Executive Assistant to the Director. Ms. Ross recently returned to the Youth Development Services Division where she is responsible for managing the work of the Independent Living Program (ILP) staff who provide supportive services to Transition Age Youth (TAY) and the Youth Engagement Section (YES) whose staff provide primary case carrying services to a subset of the AB 12 population.

Sherrie Evans joined the Department of Children and Family Services in 2005 as a trainee and has since developed a diverse background across Continuing Services, Drug Court, Dependency Investigation, Emergency Response, AB12 supervision. She recently joined the Youth Development Services (YDS) Division in January as a Children’s Services Administrator III, where she brings energy and passion to supporting the Division Chief, Ronique Ross, and leading the Admin team with a strong commitment to service, collaboration, and positive outcomes for youth.

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Ms. Erika Pollard is a graduate of San Diego State University. Ms. Pollard started her career with DCFS in January 1998 as a Social Worker Trainee.

She worked her way up to an SCSW position in Continuing Services where she worked for 8 years while also facilitating a Teen Club. Ms. Pollard came to Youth Development Services Division in 2014 as an ILP/Transition Coordinator and is currently an ILP manager.

Jenny Serrano manages the Division's programs for transportation, credit protection, workforce development, and special initiatives. She joined DCFS in 2010 in this capacity. From 2008-2010, she served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief Executive Officer in the County's Chief Executive Office. In the decade before she joined the County, she worked at Edelman Children's Court and other public and nonprofit agencies.

Jenny holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Administration degree from California State University, Northridge. She has been an Associate Professor of Political Science with the Los Angeles Community College District for over 20 years.

Jenny has lived experience in foster care in Los Angeles County. She was in foster care from age 13 to 18. During that time, she attended 6 high schools and lived in 6 foster homes. She went on to become the caregiver for her younger brother when she was 19 and he was 15. The ILP program helped her make friends and mentors, get jobs, transportation support and scholarships to get through college. Today, she has a family of her own with two big kids - ages 20 and 27.