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Placement Services
The Placement Services Department provides services for families and children who require separation in order to protect the child's health, safety, and well-being. The agency offers a variety of temporary placement resources.
A Short-term (up to 30 days) Emergency Shelter Care is available 24 hours for children needing immediate protection while the family's situation and child's needs are being evaluated. Placement may be recommended at the completion of the evaluation if all efforts to ensure the child's protection within the family have failed.
During child's placement, Reunification Services are provided. Once placement occurs, casework services focus on correcting through counseling, education, and the use of community resources conditions necessitating the placement. The goal is to reunite the family at the earliest possible time. If the child is returned home, services are provided to ensure maintenance of the family unit. With parental participation, a plan is developed to address the child's right to a stable, permanent home.
For those who can benefit from a family living experience, Foster Family Care is available through this agency's own studied approved and supervised foster homes, as well as through private foster care agencies. The agency has home finding services to recruit, train and study foster family resources.
Kinship Care is the agency's first consideration for placement if a child needs to be removed from the home. This is a family or individual who has an existing relationship with the child and/or the child's family. Kinship families can be and will be considered throughout the child’s involvement with services. When reunification is not possible children have the potential to remain with family. Supportive services are offered to the kinship resource family. Family members are able to become foster parents through a training and home study process
Group Residential Care is provided to children whose range of medical and behavioral needs cannot be met by a family living experience.
Independent Living Services are available to prepare older youth (adolescents in placement age 16 years and older) for self-sufficiency. Job readiness and life-skills training are provided, along with counseling services.
When children and their families cannot be reunited, Adoption Services provide the child with a permanent home and new legal parentage. Placement is supervised until the adoption is finalized. Following finalization, Post-Adoptive Services offer adoptive families, adoptees, and birth parents professional assessment, counseling, and search & information services.
Although most expectant parents decide to keep their child, Options Counseling offers them voluntary services to explore alternatives (temporary foster/kinship care, kinship care, and adoption services) concerning their expected child.
Emergency Shelter Care
A Short-term (up to 30 days) Emergency Shelter Care is available 24 hours for children needing immediate protection while the family's situation and child's needs are being evaluated. Placement may be recommended at the completion of the evaluation if all efforts to ensure the child's protection within the family have failed.
Reunification Services
During child's placement, Reunification Services are provided. Once placement occurs, casework services focus on correcting through counseling, education, and the use of community resources conditions necessitating the placement. The goal is to reunite the family at the earliest possible time. If the child is returned home, services are provided to ensure maintenance of the family unit. With parental participation, a plan is developed to address the child's right to a stable, permanent home.
Foster/Kinship Family Care
For those who can benefit from a family living experience, Foster Family Care is available through this agency's own studied approved and supervised foster homes, as well as through private foster care agencies. The agency has home finding services to recruit, train and study foster family resources.
Kinship Care
Kinship Care is the agency's first consideration for placement if a child needs to be removed from the home. This is a family or individual who has an existing relationship with the child and/or the child's family. Kinship families can be and will be considered throughout the child’s involvement with services. When reunification is not possible children have the potential to remain with family. Supportive services are offered to the kinship resource family. Family members are able to become foster parents through a training and home study process
Group Residential Care
Group Residential Care is provided to children whose range of medical and behavioral needs cannot be met by a family living experience.
Independent Living Services
Independent Living Services are available to prepare older youth (adolescents in placement age 16 years and older) for self-sufficiency. Job readiness and life-skills training are provided, along with counseling services.
Adoption Services
When children and their families cannot be reunited, Adoption Services provide the child with a permanent home and new legal parentage. Placement is supervised until the adoption is finalized. Following finalization, Post-Adoptive Services offer adoptive families, adoptees, and birth parents professional assessment, counseling, and search & information services.
Options Counseling
Although most expectant parents decide to keep their child, Options Counseling offers them voluntary services to explore alternatives (temporary foster/kinship care, kinship care, and adoption services) concerning their expected child.