Group homes · California
Websites for California care homes.
A website for your California home, for $300 flat.
California sorts adult homes by age first, then by need. Below: the licence names, linked to the code and to the Department of Social Services, and what to put on your site.
The names
The Department of Social Services (CDSS), through its Community Care Licensing Division, licenses the homes on this page. Each kind links to its source.
- Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE)
Housing with care and supervision, chosen by people 60 or over.
Agency Department of Social Services (CDSS), Community Care Licensing, Senior Care Licensing
Read the rule Health and Safety Code 1569.2 CDSS Senior Care Licensing
- Adult Residential Facility (ARF)
24-hour non-medical care for adults 18 to 59 (and some people 60 or over) with a mental, physical or developmental disability.
Agency CDSS Community Care Licensing, Adult Care Licensing
Read the rule CDSS Adult Care Licensing
- Adult Residential Facility for Persons with Special Health Care Needs (ARFPSHN)
Licensed to serve up to five adults with developmental disabilities.
Agency CDSS
Read the rule CDSS Adult Care Licensing Welfare and Institutions Code 4684.50
- Enhanced Behavioral Support Home (EBSH)
An adult residential facility giving 24-hour non-medical care to people with developmental disabilities who need enhanced behavioral supports. The Community Crisis Home (CCH) is a related type.
Agency CDSS
Read the rule CDSS Adult Care Licensing
Not for adults: a Small Family Home is a licence for foster children. If you serve adults, it isn’t your category.
Checked against each linked page on 1 October 2026. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the rule itself, or the agency, has the final word.
Your site
- Lead with age. An RCFE serves people 60 or over; an adult residential facility serves adults 18 to 59. Say who you serve, with the ages, in the first lines of your site.
- Write the letters, then what they mean. People search for “RCFE” by the letters. Use them, and spell out residential care facility for the elderly once, for the family that has never heard of one.
- Six or fewer. California law treats a home serving six or fewer people as a residential use of the house for zoning (Health and Safety Code 1566). Your site doesn’t need to argue it; it’s one more reason to look and read like the home you are.
- Real rooms, a phone, a tour form. Corrected photos of the actual house, a number that gets answered, and a tour form that works at night.
What you get
Everything a California home needs to be found and called, for one price.
Everything in the $300
- Your own website with your services, your house, requirements, questions and answers, and contact info.
- Contact and tour forms so families can reach you any time, day or night.
- Better photos of your house, made from the ones you send us.
- Your admin page to see messages, reply, post updates and send newsletters.
- Business email set up so your emails don’t go to spam.
- Email newsletters a sign-up box on your site, and you send updates to families from your admin page.
- A flyer to match your site with a QR code, ready to print.
- A logo if you need one (free) at no extra charge.
- Set up on Google so families can find you.
- Web address with the first year included yours to keep.
- About 3 business days from your details to your live site, usually. That’s typical, not a promise.
$300 one-time. Optional monthly plans: Fast Lane $20, Full Care $50 or Unlimited $100 a month. Skip them and the site is still yours.
More
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Start
$300, flat. Send your name and a way to reach you, and your site is usually live in about 3 business days, with a free logo if you need one.
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