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Temporary care is arranged for Gloucester children who cannot be in their own homes, generally as a result of parental abuse or neglect.

A temporary living arrangement providing parenting for children who cannot stay in their homes because of abuse, neglect or other family problems.

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.

Provides a loving, nurturing home for children who are homeless or in a family crisis

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

Holston Family Services is a ministry of Holston United Methodist Home for Children. Services include adoption, foster care, in-home services, and therapy.

Foster care provides temporary care of children who can no longer remain in their home due to difficulties in the family situation. Services also include counseling, training, and other support services to help stabilize the family while working to return the child home.

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 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.

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.

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

The Foster Care Program provides services to children and families when circumstances require the child to be removed from their home. Foster care provides a safe and stable environment for children and older youth until the issues that made placement outside the home necessary are resolved. When a child cannot return home, another permanent home is found for the child through adoption or legal custody by a relative.

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 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 placement for children who have been removed from their birth parents due to some type of abuse and/or neglect, or other family circumstances that prevent children from remaining in their homes. The Department of Social Services endeavors to work in partnership with the child(ren) and the birth parents to help resolve the family issues and reunite the family whenever possible.

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.

Provides homes and foster parents to 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 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.

Temporary care is arranged for children who cannot be in their own 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 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 provision of placement services for at-risk children whose parents are temporarily unable to provide care for them. Children may be placed in private approved foster homes, therapeutic foster homes, group homes or residential facilities.

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 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.