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 > City of Chesapeake, Virginia > Government > City Agencies, Departments, and Offices > Departments > Human Services Department > Chesapeake Social Services > Promoting Safe and Stable Families

Promoting Safe and Stable Families


Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) is a prevention program funded through the State of Virginia that provides family support, family preservation and time limited reunification services to families whose children may be at risk of out-of-home placement.  Efforts are focused on keeping children safely at home and in the community. There is a wide variety of services to provide family support and family preservation.

 

  • Family Preservation:
    Help families alleviate crises that might lead to out-of-home placements of children because of abuse, neglect, or parental inability to care for their children. These services help maintain the safety of children in their own homes, support families preparing to reunify or adopt, and assist families in obtaining other services to meet multiple needs.

  • Family Support:
    Voluntary, preventive activities to help families nurture their children. These services are designed to alleviate stress and help parents care for their children's well-being before a crisis occurs. They connect families with available community resources and supportive networks which assist parents with child rearing. Family support activities include respite care for parents and care givers, early development screening of children to identify their needs, tutoring health education for youth, and a range of center-based activities. Services often are provided at the local level by community-based organizations.

  • Time-limited Family Reunification:
    Facilitate a reunification of the child safely and appropriately within a timely fashion, but only during the 15-month period that begins on the date that the child is considered to have entered foster care. Services are for the child and the parents or primary care giver. Such services may include individual, group, and family counseling; inpatient, residential, or outpatient substance abuse treatment services; mental health services; assistance to address domestic violence; services designed to provide temporary child care and therapeutic services for families, including crisis nurseries; and transportation to or from any of the services.

  • Adoption Promotion and Support:
    Encourage adoption from the foster care system, when adoptions promote the best interests of children, including such activities as pre and post adoptive services and activities designed to expedite the adoption process and support adoptive families.

Learn

For more information contact the Program Coordinator at 757-382-2144 or visit Promoting Safe & Stable Families on the Virginia Department of Social Services.

 
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