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Family Safety, Risk and Permanency |
Family safety, risk, and permanency services are targeted to children and families on whom the Iowa Department of Human Services has, following a child protective or CINA assessment or juvenile court action, opened a child welfare case. Regardless of the setting in which a family’s children may be placed, these services are expected to provide a flexible array of culturally sensitive interventions and supports to achieve safety and permanency for children.
Services are expected to be flexible and strength-based, family-focused, designed to connect families to informal supports and community resources, bolster family protective capacities, and maintain and strengthen family connections to their neighborhoods and communities.
Family safety, risk, and permanency services will become the primary family-centered service intervention by the Department. This service will be for a wide variety of children and families to either:
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Preserve the family and safely maintain children within their family home; or
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Safety reunify children who have been removed from their homes; or
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Achieve alternative permanent family connections for children who cannot return home, such as through making and maintaining an adoptive or guardianship placement.
For family safety, risk, and permanency services, a “case” is defined as:
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A child, or children, who are victims of abuse and meet the Department’s criteria for opening ongoing child welfare services; and
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A child or children who are subject to a court order based on child in need of assistance (CINA) proceedings; and
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Any whole, half, or step siblings of the above children who reside in the same household at the time of the Department service referral or move into the household during the service period; and
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Any children who are in placement under the care and supervision of the Department; and
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The parents, stepparents, adoptive parents, or caretakers (such as relatives or significant others of the parents, of the above children).
NOTE: Referrals may only come through the Iowa Department of Human Services. |
For more information, contact:
Young House
Family Services
724 North 3rd Street
P.O. Box 845 Burlington, IA 52601
Phone: (319) 752-4000, Ext. 101
Fax: (319) 752-6933
e-mail: More Information
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