News:
NEW! High Performing Agencies!
CPS staff have been working furiously to improve the quality of their CPS data. Visit the SafeMeasures Page on this site to see who ranked as the highest!
Do You Have Promising Practices?
Do you know of a new practice, strategy or approach that is being used in your locality to improve the support of and provision of services to Virginia’s children and families? If so, we want to know! We are working to collect promising practices from across Virginia so that localities can learn from one another about what has been working as we strive to transform our child serving systems. Share your localities promising practices.
A Message From The Virginia Department Of Social Services' Commissioner:Everyone on Board: Embedding our Practice Model
As many of you are aware, in 2008, public and private stakeholders identified the need for a unifying framework that would help establish the standards of practice across all of Virginia’s child-serving agencies. Since the implementation of the Children’s Services System Transformation (CSST) the Practice Model has significantly improved outcomes for children in Virginia. Read More…
Talking Transformation
The Daily Progress : A family reunion of sorts for foster care alumni
Growing up, Brandy Hudson-Carnes bounced between 32 foster care homes.
The particulars of Hudson-Carnes’ life story are unique, but an unstable family life is something well understood by the dozens of foster care alumni who gathered at McIntire Park on Saturday for a “family reunion” of their own.
Richmond Times-Dispatch :Reforms help states cut number of foster-care kids
No single youngster can be the poster child for America's foster-care system, with its mix of happy endings and heartache. Yet Tatiana Fowler's smile, as she embraces the woman who adopted her, gives a hint at the groundswell of change that is altering that mix for the better.To read more, click here.