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Temporary care arranged for children who cannot be in their own homes and who have been placed in foster care by the court.
Reunification of the family by correcting problems that ultimately led to the Foster Care placement. This involves working with the natural family, the child, the foster family, the court, and various community resources. The Child Welfare Unit is responsible for the recruitment, approval, and re-evaluation of foster care homes. A volunteer Foster Care program is offered to families in need of respite care for their children.
Foster care is intended to be a temporary rather than a long-term solution for children who have been removed from their birth family homes for reasons of neglect, abuse, abandonment, or other issues endangering their health and/or safety.
Provides homes and compassionate foster parents for children who are removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect, or other family circumstances that prevent children from remaining in their homes.
Provides care and case management and family preservation services. The Virginia Comprehensive Services Act provides for the pooling of eight specific funding streams to support services for high-risk youth. These funds are returned to the localities with a required state/local match and are managed by local interagency teams. The purpose of the act is to provide high quality, child centered, family focused, cost effective, community-based services to high-risk youth and their families.
Treatment Foster Care/Adoption Services: Foster parents trained to manage a vast continuum of emotional, behavioral, intellectual and mental health impairments individuals may present. Case management and care coordination,Ongoing support of positive relationships with the child's family, when appropriate. Crisis intervention and support available 24/7 Homes to accommodate sibling groupsd.
Investigates reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of adults over 60 years of age and incapacitated adults over 18 years of age and provides services when persons are found to be in need of protective services. APS 24-Hour Hotline: 888-832-3858
Provide family structure and provide for their physical and emotional needs. Hope Haven is a family-modeled children's homes in Virginia.
Treatment Foster Care (TFC) is foster care with structured therapeutic support for children and youth who have experienced trauma. As unwavering champions for high-risk youth, UMFS collaborates with communities and treatment foster parents to create a home environment that is healthy, supportive, and structured, empowering youth to realize their full potential.
Treatment Foster Care/Adoption Services: Foster parents trained to manage a vast continuum of emotional, behavioral, intellectual and mental health impairments individuals may present. Case management and care coordination,Ongoing support of positive relationships with the child's family, when appropriate. Crisis intervention and support available 24/7 Homes to accommodate sibling groups
Provides protection for adults from abuse and neglect. Investigates and responds to reports of suspected abuse of disabled adults over age 18 and any person over age 60.
Provides court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee based on income.
Investigates reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of adults over 60 years of age and incapacitated adults over 18 years of age and provides services when persons are found to be in need of protective services. APS 24-Hour Hotline: 888-832-3858
Finds permanent adoptive homes for children whose birth parents are unable to care for them and provides services for children in adoptive placements.
Foster parents are people (single or married; employed inside or outside the home) who open their homes to a child or children and are committed to meet the individual needs of the child or children. Foster parents work in partnership with the child, the agency and the birth parents to help in resolving problems and reuniting the family whenever possible. Adults, over the age of 18, may become foster parents. To become a foster parent, please visit the agency and a social worker can provide you with information. You may also visit the foster care page for details.
Protects elderly and impaired adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation; enables adults to remain in the least restrictive setting; and assess Medicaid eligible adults for nursing home placement.
Services provided or arranged by the local department of public welfare or social services which are necessary to prevent abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult. These services consist of the identification, receipt, and investigation of complaints and reports of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation for incapacitated persons 18 years of age and over and persons 60 years of age and over.
Provides adult protective service investigations for residents of New Kent.
Responsible for providing 24 hour care for youth ordered into our custody, providing services to family members which promote the child's return to the birth family, providing custody studies, home family assessments, and ensuring parental rights are legally terminated if the child is adopted.
Avalon's Youth Services program offers prevention, education, counseling, support groups and advocacy for children and youth who are victims or witnesses to domestic or sexual violence, dating violence, bullying, stalking or who have experienced trauma.

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Abuse Counseling
Parental Visitation Facilitation
Places children who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents with new families.
Responsible for providing 24-hour care for youth ordered into our custody, for providing services to family members which promote the child's return to the birth family, and for providing custody studies, home family assessments, and ensuring parental rights are legally terminated if the child is adopted.
Offers intensive, ongoing supportive services to children and families at risk. These services are provided directly or through purchase and referral to community resources.
Provides court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee based on income.
Offered in support of families interested in adopting children, as well as providing information regarding children who become free for adoption. There are several types of adoptions: agency initiated adoptions, adoptions that are parental placements, and step-parent adoptions. The Child Welfare Unit performs searches for adopted children who are searching for their natural parents.