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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 foster care placement. Local departments of social services provide training for foster parents. The training is designed to help foster parents understand and manage the needs of children in their care.
Provides a loving, nurturing home for children who are homeless or in a family crisis
Working with the courts, places children in the legal custody of Family Services in approved foster homes, group homes and residential facilities. Provides services to help child return home safely to their parents. Accepts referrals from the courts, families, and child protective services.
Foster care is the provision of substitute family living for children (under age 21) on a 24-hour basis. Foster care is provided only after all reasonable efforts have been made to maintain the child's family unit.
Provides placement for children in need of foster care and services to the children and their families.
A temporary living arrangement providing parenting for children who cannot stay in their homes because of abuse, neglect or other family problems.
Temporary care is arranged for Gloucester children who cannot be in their own homes, generally as a result of parental abuse or neglect.
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 foster care placement. Local departments of social services provide training for foster parents. The training is designed to help foster parents understand and manage the needs of children in their care.
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.
Foster Care is a program that 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 foster care placement.
Provides temporary placement for abused and neglected children, delinquent children and children in need of a legal guardian.
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.
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. Available services include: placement services, teaching independent living skills, physical and mental health treatment, mentoring and the opportunity for a permanent living situation, including transition services.
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.
The Virginia Department of Social Services Foster Care Program 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.
Foster care is the provision of substitute family living for children on a 24-hour basis. Foster care is provided only after all reasonable efforts to maintain the child's family unit have been made.
Recruits and supervises foster homes. Makes emergency placements of children. Accepts applications from persons interested in becoming Foster Home Parents. Provides Foster Parent Training.
Provides homes and foster parents for children who are removed from their home due to abuse, neglect or other family circumstances that prevent children from remaining in their homes.
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 foster care placement. Local departments of social services provide training for foster parents. The training is designed to help foster parents understand and manage the needs of children in their 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 foster care placement. Local departments of social services provide training for foster parents. The training is designed to help foster parents understand and manage the needs of children in their 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 foster care placement. Local departments of social services provide training for foster parents. The training is designed to help foster parents understand and manage the needs of children in their care. In case of emergency, please call the local sheriff at (434)589-8211.
The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program provides comprehensive foster care services to refugee minors who enter the U.S. without parents or other adult relatives to care for them. The program also serves unaccompanied children in federal custody. Provides foster care to refugee minors who have fled their home because of war or persecution due to their race, religion or political affiliation. Referrals for children received from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Provide temporary out-of -home care for children in the custody of the Department of Social Services, delivering supportive services to the children, their parents, and their foster families. Services are directed to reuniting families where possible and to placing the child in an alternative permanent home when reunification is not possible. Recruit and train foster parents. Complete home studies for interstate placement and custody requests. The Independent Living Program helps older youth in foster care acquire and use life skills to become self-sufficient.
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.
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.