A Community Approach to Child Protection
We believe children belong at home, and families belong together. Our first priority is to ensure that children have a safe home environment in which to grow and thrive. We provide a variety of services and programs to help with this, and work with many community partners who are striving for the same thing. In the event that home isn’t a safe place and alternative care is needed, we make every effort to find kinship families and familiar caregivers to provide a safe home environment. It takes a village, and together with our community partners and concerned citizens we are all making a difference in the lives of children in need of protection.
Kinship Families
A home provided by a family who is known to a child such as a relative or a family friend.
Care Arrangements
The most common arrangement where foster families provide for the day-to-day care of a child in a family setting.
Adoption
Established through a legal process when the birth family is unable to care for a child.
What’s Happening
Smudging Protocol
The Children’s Aid Society of the District of...