Provides a wide range of services for families, including referrals to child care and early education programs that meet their family needs for child care. Provides assistance to parents and families on a variety of parenting topics, including discipline, literacy and special needs. Provides childcare provider training, a lending library with books and supplies for childcare providers, fingerprinting services, and the Step Up To Quality program for type A childcare providers.

Assists kinship caregivers in learning about and accessing programs and resources to meet the needs of the children in their care. Offers guidance on a variety of topics, such as applying for legal custody, obtaining financial benefits, and connecting with support groups or other kinship caregivers.

Educates parents and care givers on quality indicators of child care, makes referrals to child care providers, helps link families to community resources, provides general and Step Up to Quality approved trainings to early care and education professionals, offers CDA credential training, and supports child care programs through technical assistance and resources.

Provides child care subsidies for families who are eligible. This department also certifies providers who wish to provide care for children as a vocation.

Provides foster care services including foster parent recruitment, education and training, preparation services, and ongoing support.

Offers child care provider referrals for in-home day care providers and day care centers.

Recruits, prepares, educates and supports prospective adoptive parents, including relative caregivers seeking to adopt. Adoption specialists provide a complete adoption home study. Provides post-placement supervision, support and court finalization of the adoption. Handles infant, international and special needs adoptions, such as older children and foster children. Conducts parent training for international adoptions.

Provides adoptions and foster care information and services for children who are in the temporary or permanent custody of Adams County Children Services, which includes adoptive/foster parent recruitment, education and training, preparation services, and ongoing support.

Provides an emphasis on creating a community of foster care parents and staff ensuring everyone feels fully supported

Placement into a family-like setting is preferred to any group or residential setting. This setting is a private home in which a maximum of five children are given care and supervision twenty-four hours a day by a licensed individual or couple who is usually not related to the child by blood or marriage or who is not appointed as the guardian of the child.

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Provides foster home licensing, home placement, and recruitment of potential foster families, including kin families.

Oversees providing safe, temporary homes for children who cannot safely remain in their own homes. Purpose of program is to reunify children with their families and/or to find other permanent living arrangements when children cannot return home.

Trains foster parents to provide temporary 24-hour care to children in the custody of the state of Kentucky. Also assists families in adopting children placed in their care when appropriate.

Offers American Sign Language interpreters for people who are deaf. Provides interpreters for business appointments, medical appointments, meetings, etc. Requests should indicate what type of business the interpreter is needed.

Provides opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities to participate in community life. Services include family crisis intervention, supported living, supported housing, family resource services, life and estate planning and guardianship.

Provision of specially trained foster parents in the community and surrounding area to provide safe, supportive home placements for youth with mental, emotional, and behavioral treatment needs.

Handles special needs adoptions, such as older children, children with behavioral issues, and children with disabilities and/or health issues. Recruits, prepares, trains, educates and supports prospective adoptive parents, including relative caregivers seeking to adopt. Adoption specialists provide a complete adoption home study. Provides post-placement supervision, support and court finalization of the adoption.

Provides programming that enables youth ages 7 to 12, facing challenging life circumstances, to achieve their full potential as productive, responsible, caring people. The five core program areas are character and leadership development; education and career development; health and life skills; the arts; and sports, fitness and recreation.

Provides foster care for children who have been removed from the home by a county agency as well as hard to place children (such as those with behavioral issues, disabilities, or health issues). The children receive case management (to link them to appropriate community and medical services) and individualized services from a team of professionally-trained foster families and social workers. This program is intended as a short-term solution with the goal of reunifying the primary family whenever possible. Transition support for children who are aging out of the foster care system is also provided. Recruits and trains families who are interested in providing foster care to children with special needs.

Faith Mission's Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) helps and supports low-income veterans who are either at risk or homeless. This program focuses on preventing homelessness and ensures housing stability for veterans and their families within the community.

Provides information and referral of social services and benefits information to older adults. Will provide assessments in the home for residents when needed. Offers counseling to help seniors cope with life-style changes, personal, marital, and family problems. Assist with forms completion and maintains a registry of chore service providers

Placement into a family-like setting is preferred to any group or residential setting. This setting is a private home in which a maximum of five children are given care and supervision twenty-four hours a day by a licensed individual or couple who is usually not related to the child by blood or marriage or who is not appointed as the guardian of the child.

Provides agency-supervised private family homes in which foster parents have been trained to provide individualized, structured services in a safe, nurturing family living environment for children and adolescents with significant emotional or behavioral problems who require a higher level of care than is found in a conventional foster home but do not require placement in a more restrictive setting.