Family preservation services are designed to help families going through crisis and prevent children from having to enter foster care. Separating children from their family due to safety concerns is a traumatic experience that can have physical and mental health repercussions for years. Oftentimes, children don’t need to be removed from the home when parents are provided with empowering services and support from healthcare professionals.

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Types of Preservation Services

Services may include drug treatment, parent training, counseling, or behavior management.

• Education and enabling services – This area focuses on improving and empowering parents, often through one-on-one assistance with a therapist or through informal support groups. Focus areas can include financial planning, communication skills, problem-solving skills or conflict management skills.
• Therapeutic services – This can focus on short-term, family-centered services, such as crisis intervention. Long-term services are also available, which can include family counseling, marriage counseling, substance use counseling or mediation.
• Concrete services – Sometimes families struggle maintaining basic needs. To help, family preservation workers can help with housekeeping, transport family members, provide food and financial assistance or connect families with local resources.

About KVC Kentucky’s Family Preservation Services

Our Family First Preservation and Reunification Services help strengthen families and keep children safely at home rather than exiting into foster care or other residential treatment settings. These services are a collaboration between the Department for Community Based Services and KVC Kentucky and are rooted in the value of and commitment to evidence-based prevention practices. Our services are designed to:

• Help families remain safely together.
• Divert children from being placed in foster care or a residential treatment center.
• Assist in the reunification of children from out-of-home placement.
• Improve family relationships.

We’re hiring 100+ social workers, case managers, therapists and others for this program! Apply here today.

KVC Kentucky, headquartered in Lexington, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit child welfare and behavioral healthcare organization that provides behavioral health services, foster care, family preservation and reunification, and other family-related services. Our services are in-home, strengths-based, and driven by a focus on the safety, permanency, and wellbeing of the child and family. Each year, KVC Kentucky serves more than 12,000 children and families in eight regions of the state.