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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.

A Kinship Navigator will provide information, referral, education and advocacy for kinship families. This will include linking families to needed resources including legal assistance, mental health services, healthcare, education and support groups. Benefits such as TANF, SNAP etc.

Places children who are unable to be raised by their biological parents to become permanent legal members of another family while maintaining genetic and psychological connections to their birth family.

Provides counseling, supervision, placements, and supportive services to or on behalf of children, who are in the custody of the Department of Social Services.

Provides court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee based on income. For more information, please call: Bath County Social Services: (540)839-7271 Statewide Toll-free number: (800)362-3678 or (800)DO-ADOPT

Therapeutic Foster Care) is a specialized foster care program that provides an extra level of support and resources for children and adolescents with complex emotional and behavioral needs, often the result of past trauma.

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 is not always possible. Once it is determined that a child must leave the family unit and go into foster care, other services becomes available to them, which are designed to promote child safety and well-being within a nurturing, family environment. Services include: *Placement services; *Teaching independent living skills; *Physical or mental health treatment; *Opportunity for a permanent living situation.

Protects elderly and impaired adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation; enables adults to remain in the least restrictive setting; and assesses Medicaid eligible adults for nursing home or assisted living facility placement.

Recruits and supervises foster homes. Makes emergency placements of children. Accepts applications from persons interested in becoming Foster Home Parents. Provides Foster Parent Training.

Investigates reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of adults 60 years of age or older and incapacitated adults age 18 or older. If protective services are needed and accepted by the individual, local Adult Protective Services social workers may arrange for a wide variety of health, housing, social and legal services to stop the mistreatment or prevent further mistreatment. Services offered may include home-based care, transportation, adult day services, adult foster care, nutrition services and legal intervention in order to protect the adult. Services may also be arranged for individuals in emergency situations who lack the capacity to consent to services.

Provides international adoption services for children in need of permanent families.

Provides casework, treatment, and community services to a child who has been abused or neglected or is in need of services due to the death or incapacitation of a child's parent(s) or legal guardian. Foster care is meant to be a temporary solution while the agency secures a permanent placement for a child.

Foster Care provides services, substitute care, and supervision for a child on a 24-hour basis until the child can return to his or her family or be placed in an adoptive home or another permanent placement.

Receives and investigates complaints of child abuse/neglect to determine if the act occurred and the amount of risk to the child involved. Removal or placement of children through the legal process may be necessary for the child's protection. Social Work staff also provide ongoing supportive services to families with substantiated cases of child abuse/neglect. In addition, they promote community awareness and education of child abuse/neglect.

Provides assistance with the least disruption of lifestyle and with full due process, protection, and restoration of the person's liberty in the shortest possible period of time.

Protective Services to adults consists of the receipt and prompt investigation of reports of suspected abuse, neglect and exploitation. It includes assessing and documenting adults' service needs, determining services needed, and developing a plan to obtain services.

TFC program trains and supports foster parents to provide around-the-clock care for at-risk children who have been removed from their homes.

Foster Care Services are provided to children who have been entrusted to or placed in the custody of Social Services with the primary goal being of reuniting the child with his/her natural family. The child's family is provided services to help resolve the problems, which caused the child to enter Foster Care.

Foster Care Program provides homes 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.

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 court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee, based on income.

The purpose of adoption services is to help children who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents become permanent members of a new family. The Virginia State Department of Social Services maintains a registry of children available for adoption as well those families who have approved home studies. Information can be obtained through 800-DO-ADOPT or visit the Adopt Us Kids website. This Department engages in a variety of activities designed to find families for this community's waiting children and raise awareness including annual Adoption Celebrations and Heart Galleries.

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

Adoption is a service for children who cannot be cared for by their birth parents and who need and can benefit from new and permanent family ties established through a legal process. Adoption services are provided to children who need permanent families, birth parents who are unable to parent their children and adoptive parents who want to provide a home for a child not born to them.

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.