Child Welfare
Services provides protection, intervention and ongoing
support to children who are victims of or are threatened with abuse,
neglect or exploitation.
Child Welfare Services include the
following programs:
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Emergency Response is available
twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week. Social workers
conduct risk assessments, and provide information, referrals and
support in response to reports of suspected child abuse. Services
are designed to preserve the family unit by strengthening parental
capacity and creating a willingness to provide a safe and healthful
child-rearing environment.
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Family Maintenance is designed to
provide time-limited protective services to prevent separation of
children from their families.
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Family Reunification is designed to
provide time-limited foster care services when the child cannot
safely remain at home and needs temporary foster care while services
are provided to reunite the family.
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Permanent Placement is designed to
provide an alternate permanent family structure for children who,
because of abuse, neglect or exploitation, cannot safely remain at
home and who are unlikely to ever return home.
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Independent Living is designed to
prepare children who are in transition from foster care to
independent living to prepare them for adult personal responsibility
and self-sufficiency.
Bust’n Out!
is a web site dedicated to helping youth find their way in life. This
site was designed to act as an information resource for all youth, youth
in foster care and emancipated youth in Plumas and other California
counties to obtain important information regarding many of the lifestyle
changes they will face once on their own.
http://www.fosteryouth.net/Home_Page/Home_Page.asp
Plumas County Department of Social Services
270 County Hospital Road, Suite 207
Quincy, CA. 95971
Phone:
(530) 283-6350 Fax: (530) 283-6368