Marianne Chavez Yamato, MA-MFT. Mrs. Yamato has been a dedicated member of the LA County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) team since 1999. She began her career in direct services spending 12 years in Emergency Response, Continuing Services, Dependency Investigations, and briefly with the DCFS Hotline. She transitioned into management as a Children Services Administrator (CSA) I, with the Relative Support Services Division, supporting relative caregivers, monitoring contracts, supervising staff, and representing DCFS at State Fair Hearings. Mrs. Yamato later promoted to CSA II with the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, where she led the No-Hit Zone Public Service Campaign, was a member of Child Fatality Review Team and served on numerous inter-agency workgroups. In 2023, Mrs. Yamato became a CSA III with the DCFS Office of Equity, where she manages the Women and Girls Program providing supportive services and advancing equity for DCFS clients and staff.   Mrs. Yamato holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with a minor in Sociology from Whittier College and a Master’s degree in Marriage Family Child Counseling-MFT from California State University Fullerton.