- Provide services which include locating birth parents for adults and finding adoptive homes for available children.
- Provides child-centered, family focused services that support the family goals of economic self-sufficiency and child development.
- Provides substitute parental care, protection, guidance, and early childhood education while parents/caretakers are participating in approved activities of work, school, and/or training.
A community based program whose mission is to enhance the lives of children, adolescents and their families. Child and Youth Services offers an array of services designed to assist children and adolescents who are experiencing emotional difficulties and/or behavioral problems.
- Case Management
- Day Treatment
- Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
- Substance Abuse Day Treatment
- Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST)
- Outpatient Services
- Therapeutic After-School Respite Program
- Responsible for the investigation of complaints of suspected child abuse or neglect to determine whether the reports meet the legal definition of same
- Determine the need for protective services and to make arrangements for the provision of those services
- Assesses the strengths and needs of at-risk youths and families who are referred to the team.
- Identifies and determines the combination of services required to meet the child's unique needs.
- Recommended services include: psychological assessments, therapy, medical treatment, intensive in-home treatment, and therapeutic and residential care.
- Provides special services to fathers as they play a pivotal role in the emotional, physical and financial health of their family.
- We strengthen the bond between fathers, children and family by providing fathers with the tools to achieve their goals of becoming more effective parents.
Residential Foster Care - Residential placement occurs when a foster child is placed in a licensed publicly or privately-owned facility, rather than a private family home.
Therapeutic Foster Care - Provides specialized attention to troubled children an teens in foster care. It is a joint effort by the Adult and Family Services and Mental Health Substance Abuse Divisions.
- Anyone may report a concern about the health or safety of a child.
- In fact, some people (such as doctors, teachers, and social workers) are required to make a report within 72 hours if they have reason to suspect that something is wrong.
To be eligible, individuals must have mental retardation/intellectual disability as a primary diagnosis and reside in the city of Virginia Beach.
- PALS I
- PALS II
- Respite Reimbursement Subsidy
- Serves children from birth to age three who have developmental delays.
- Services available include; but not limited to, service coordination, speech, physical, and/or occupational therapy and educational services.
- The program also offers parent support groups, center based classes and community based group activities for children.
- Provides short term, limited financial assistance to families with children when a fire or natural disaster has destroyed those things necessary for taking care of your family.
- Eligibility for Medicaid is determined by local departments of social services.
- FAMIS provides health insurance to low-income children under the age of 19 who are not eligible for Medicaid and whose gross family income is less than or equal to 200% of the federal poverty level.
- Provides temporary financial assistance to eligible families and children under the age 18.
- Grant amount is based upon family size.
- Federal policy limits families to sixty months of TANF eligibility unless they are Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare (VIEW) program who is limited to 24 months followed by a period of ineligibility for 24 months.
- This is a facility that houses up to 90 youth ages 10-17 that are charged with misdemeanor or felony offenses.
- The Center serves both male and female youth awaiting court hearings as well as those sentenced to detention.
- Most of the youth reside in Virginia Beach.
- Emergency Services
- Immediate telephone and in-person crisis assessment, intervention and consultation available 24/7.
- Provides pre-screening for psychiatric hospitalization and crisis stabilization. For immediate help, call (757) 385-0888.
- Prevention Services
- Seek to enable individuals, families, and communities to work together, promoting their strengths and potentials.
- The services provided are designed for the enhancement of protective factors and the reduction of risks factors.
- Provides case management and other supportive services to pregnant and parenting women and their children whose lives have been affected by substance use and/or co-occurring disorders.
- Support services include childcare and transportation assistance to attend substance abuse/mental health treatment, support groups, prenatal and pediatric medical appointments.
- Parent education and support groups for mothers and fathers.
- Families Together provides targeted case management services to children birth through seven who are considered at risk of severe emotional disturbances due to parental/caregiver substance use, intellectual disabilities or mental illness.
- Youth and Community Action Team (YCAT)
- A substance abuse prevention coalition that works collaboratively with youth, families, and the community, to create, strengthen, and sustain a safe, healthy, drug-free Virginia Beach.
A program designed to assist children between the ages of five and twelve and their families where the child is experiencing behavioral challenges at home, school or within the community.
- Outpatient, Day and Residential Treatment Services
- Parenting Skills Training
- Pendleton Academy
- Parental Capacity Evaluations/Psychological Evaluations
- Therapeutic Supervised Visitations
- Comprehensive Services Act (CSA)