Program Outcome: Permanency

Families for whom the lack of adequate housing is a primary factor in either the imminent placement of the family’s child or children in out-of-home care or  the delay in the discharge of the child or children to the family from out-of-home care and Youth 18 to 24 years of age (who have not reached their 25th birthday) who left foster care – or will within 180 days – and are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless.

Prospective or current foster, kinship, or adoptive parents of children of any age; children can be from child welfare system, intercountry or private domestic adoption process

Families with children prenatal to age 19 who have already experienced or are at higher risk for child maltreatment and other families with children prenatal to age 19

All families with in-home cases where the department (and the court, when applicable) believes that the child (birth to 18) can be safely maintained in their home with the introduction of services; cases where abuse and/or neglect has not been substantiated are allowed in select instances

Parents/caregivers and children (0-17) who are determined by public child welfare agencies to be unsafe with their families and who have cases opened for ongoing services

Children ages birth to 12 and their adult caregivers

Families who are involved with child welfare services due to physical abuse and/or neglect plus parental substance misuse

Potential and current kinship caregivers such as grandparents, other relatives (aunts/uncles, older siblings, etc.), and "fictive kin," (e.g., godparents, close family friends, etc.) of children involved in child welfare systems (children aged 0 to 21)

Informal and formal kinship families, relatives, and nonrelatives raising children who are not being raised by parents

Children and adolescents ages 5-18 years of age (allowable up to age 21 with approval) with high behavioral health needs requiring an out-of-home placement, and their caregivers