During 1997, over 2,600 such reports were received by the agency. Specialized services include traditional foster care, therapeutic foster care, sexual abuse treatment, intensive family treatment, homebased treatment, adolescent treatment, adoption services, kinship care, independent living programs, and specialized services for the developmentally disabled population. The Division currently recruits, screens, and trains foster parents to care for the children we serve. The Agency also provides placement of children in family foster homes under the auspices of private Child Placement Agencies. Foster care workers provide ongoing services to the family foster homes.
Children placed in adoptive homes receive pre and post adoptive services.
The Adoption Unit includes and intensive therapeutic component which provides ongoing individual and family treatment for the special needs child. Services focused on the prevention of disruption of the adoptive placement are also provided. Adoptions subsidies are available based upon need. A variety of programs and services are offered directly by the Division. We provide sexual abuse treatment for victims and non-offending parents within the Division and contract for the treatment of offenders.