Family Preservation Services

Intensive, well-designed early care and education for infants, toddlers and young children enrich children’s early experiences and provide critical support to their families. Positive effects of quality care, early intervention and prevention activities last a lifetime. These activities contribute to positive learning behavior, long term school success, and improved likelihood of long-term social and economic well being. Family services, including family preservation, continue these efforts by building on families’ strengths and helping them to establish and maintain a safe and nurturing environment for their children.

Family Preservation services are intensive in-home services offered to families who are in imminent danger of having a child come into the custody of the department and removed from their home unless the family can make the changes necessary to provide adequate care and safety. These services assist the family in identifying and understanding the problems within the family that place a child at risk of out-of-home placement and assist them in finding ways to change how the family unit functions. This program was privatized July 1, 1996. The srs social worker is responsible for monitoring service delivery to achieve established outcomes.