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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.

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

Impact Living Services (ILS) is a licensed child placing agency and community-based transitional service provider focused on assisting youth with independent living skills by promoting interdependence. Comprehensive supportive services for foster youth 17-21 years of age. On-Site supervision for all campuses. Services provided: Housing Education Employment Financial Literacy

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.

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 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.