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Treatment Foster Care (TFC) is foster care with structured therapeutic support for children and youth who have experienced trauma. Treatment foster parents work as a team to create a home environment that is healthy, supportive, and structured.

Foster Care Services: Ideally, at-risk children should remain with their actual families whenever possible. Although foster care services offered by the state of Virginia make every effort to keep them together, it isn't always possible. Once it is determimed that a child must leave the family unit and go into foster care, a host of other services becomes available to them, which are designed to promote child safety and well being within a nurturing, family environment. Placement Services: This involves placing a child with a foster family, group home, residential children's facility or an independent living arrangement. Teaching Independent Living Skills: Services are designed to help foster kids ages 14 through 21 to develop the skills necessary to transition from foster care to self-sufficiency. Personal development skills such as self esteem, communication skills, decision making, conflict resolution and anger management are emphasized. Physical or Mental Health Treatment: This service often includes help with substance abuse, depression, socialization,ADHD, nutritional deficiency, pregnancy, and physical disabilities. Mentoring: *Providing good role models for parents; *Role modeling such as Big Brother/Big Sister programs; *Tutoring. Opportunity for a Permanent Living Situation: Involves fostering relationships between children and relatives or previous caregivers. For older youth leaving care this might include helping find an apartment or a roommate.

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.

The purpose of adoption is to place children who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents with a new family.

Serves indigent adults who have been determined by the courts to be in need of guardianship and conservatorship when there is no one else appropriate or available to serve. Health care decisions, financial decisions, and decisions concerning where a person lives are made based on the individual's wishes and values. The ultimate goal is to maintain the person safely in the most comfortable and least restrictive environment available.

Responsible for providing 24-hour care for youth ordered into PDSS 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.

Temporary care arranged for children who cannot be in their own homes and who have been placed in foster care by the court.

Temporary care is arranged for children who cannot be in their own homes and who have been placed in foster care by the court.

Recruits and trains potential foster parents. Matches children in need of placement with licensed foster families.

The Child and Family Services center provides prevention, substance use and mental health services to the children and families in the community. The goals of these services are to help families build resiliency and keep children/youth safely in their homes and communities when possible. Trauma-informed services and prevention trainings are provided in the communities, schools and in an office-based environment.

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. In emergencies after hours call your local police or the Statewide 24 hour Toll-free Hotline: (888)832-3858.

Provides pregnancy and birth parent counseling, adoption and post-adoption services to the residents of Virginia. Counseling is free and confidential. A variety of adoption options are available including parental placements, open adoption of all types, and traditional placements. The Partnership for Adoptions program finds permanent, adoptive homes for older children in the foster care system. The Possibilities Project provides housing and wrap-around services for youth who have aged out of foster-care Pregnancy counseling, adoption and post adoption services and housing and wraparound services for children who have aged out of foster care.

DePaul Community Resources is an independent, non-profit human services organization which serves the communities of Central and Southwest Virginia through our Treatment Foster Care, Developmental Disabilities, Clinical Services, and Adoption programs.

Assists with the placement of children in “forever” homes

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.

Treatment Foster Care (TFC) is foster care with structured therapeutic support for children and youth who have experienced trauma. Treatment foster parents work as a team to create a home environment that is healthy, supportive, and structured.

Provides for an increased public awareness of adoption, improves the services system to promote adoption as a positive permanency planning option for children who need expanded kinship networks.

Virginia provides culturally-competent services to birth/legal parents, children, and resource parents to support permanency for children and youth while strengthening the well-being of all involved parties. Statewide Toll-free number: (800)362-3678 or (800)DO-ADOPT.

Conduct home studies of potential adoptive parents to assist in finding them a child for adoption.

Provides a temporary home 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 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. In emergencies after hours, call your local police or the Statewide 24 hour Toll-free Hotline: (888)832-3858.

Protects elderly and impaired adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Enables adults to remain in the least restrictive setting, by assessing the needs of the individual and providing or arranging for service delivery. Adult protective services are designed to establish and/or strengthen appropriate family and social supports in order to protect adults at-risk.

Investigates complaints of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation within state mandated time limits in order to provide appropriate services to ameliorate the protective issues identified.

Investigates reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of adults sixty years of age or older and incapacitated adults age eighteen or older.

Serves at-risk low income children ages 0-6 and their families. Offers prevention education and intervention services, case management services through home visits to families, and group activities where families can learn from and support each other. Satellite office in Louisa/Fluvanna County is also available for parenting needs: 434-589-0927 The mission of Child Health Partnership is to engage in partnership with low-income families with preschool children to improve family health and self-sufficiency. Serves the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Louisa and the city of Charlottesville.