Depaul Community Resources

Child and family services mission: we work to ensure safety, promote permanency, facilitate healing, and support independence for the children and families we serve. We do this through foster care, adoption, independent living, and community-based services. Components of the child and family services division includes:foster carewe carefully match children and teens with nurturing foster families who are well suited to address the unique needs of each child. The young people we serve are looking for a place to belong, hope for tomorrow, and often times, healing after experiencing abuse and neglect. Depauls dedicated, professional staff support foster parents every step of the way, utilizing a collaborative team approach that helps young people in foster care to heal from trauma.adoptiondepaul offers adoption services at no cost thanks to grant funding that is focused on placing children into adoptive homes and providing support to adoptive families. These grants allow us to provide services through each step of the adoption process; from pre-adoption work to prepare children and families, to recruitment efforts to find appropriate families for waiting children, to post-adoption support to ensure families formed by adoption continue to be successful.independent livingin the independent living program, our goal is to ensure that foster teens successfully transition to self-sufficiency. Our services assist young people in developing life skills, making permanent connections to caring and committed adults, meeting individual goals, and making well-informed choices for their future. Throughout the process, our staff provides guidance, compassion, and direction in navigating the difficult journey from adolescence to adulthood.community-based servicesour community-based services program extends clinical services to families and children in the least restrictive environment: their own homes and communities. Offering a variety of interventions and supports, our community-based services program is growing to meet the multitude of clinical needs across virginia. Designed to address trauma while utilizing attachment theory principles, each service is provided by qualified staff who implement treatment approaches based upon specific needs and ensure privacy, quality of service, and connection to necessary resources.