Partnership for Strong Families

Adoption: to establish permanency for children to enable them to grow and develop to their fullest potential. To meet this goal, potential adoptive Families are recruited for children whose parent's rights have been terminated, permanently committing the children to the department. Following adoption placement, the agency supervises the child's adoptive placement a minimum of 90 days before the adoption can be finalized. Post placement supervision is not required if the child has resided in the home in foster care status for 90 or more days. During the fiscal year ended 6/30/22 183 adoptions were finalized.

Out of home care: consists of protection services delivered to a child who has been placed outside the home of the biological parent or legal guardian. This includes emergency shelter, foster care, relative, or non-relative placement. This is a subset of the total number of clients in statement one above. Served approximately 1,373 youth.

Case management: involves the identification, linkage, coordination and monitoring of all child protection services for the child and family. Managed care for kids who were in an out-of-home placement or in-home living arrangement during the period and had a primary assignment to pfsf at some point during this time.

Prevention

Family preservation

Independent living

Other