Kids Central

Case management - develop and manage case plans for children that enter the child welfare system. Each child's case plan includes a goal for the best outcome for the child, such as reunification with the child's family, placement with a relative or non-relative caregiver, or adoption. Case workers then manage the case plans by visiting the children, families and caregivers and arranging for the services identified in the case plans that are needed to achieve the best outcomes for the children.

Adoption - recruit prospective adoptive parents and assist with the adoption process for children in the child welfare system whose biological parents have had their parental rights terminated by the courts. The case management activities for children awaiting adoptions and the maintenance adoption subsidies paid to eligible, adoptive families are included in the adoption program.

Foster care - payments made to foster parents to provide temporary care in a family like setting to children whose parents cannot take care of them due to reported abuse or neglect.

Other out of home care - provide the basic necessities, such as shelter, food, and supervision, as well as other services in a group setting to children in the child welfare system that have been removed from their homes. The caregivers in this program operate facilities that are licensed to provide care to a larger number of children than traditional foster homes. Other programs include residential group care and emergency shelter, recruitment and licensing, and independent living.