Community Family Services at the Taylor Family Care Center
Our Little Haven’s Community Family Services at the Taylor Family Care Center provides services for children and families in the foster care and adoption community. Community Family Services helps fill significant gaps in the child welfare system by meeting current needs. Our dedicated team has previously worked in the foster care case management field for many years, and this has given us the experience and knowledge to provide support and prevention services. Our goal is to continue to be an agent of change toward a healthy and permanent solution.
By expanding our programming, we can be of greater service within the foster care and adoption community. Community Family Services at the Taylor Family Care Center offers important early intervention services with the overall goal of permanency. Our professional and experienced team offers support and prevention services, including:
Diligent Ongoing Relative Search (DORS):
Diligent Ongoing Relative Search (DORS) aims to identify family and kinship providers and connections for children entering foster care. This service aims to identify family and kinship providers for all children in foster care as early as 48 hours after entering alternative care but continuing those search efforts up to and beyond 30 days when necessary. In addition, Diligent Ongoing Relative Search services will be available for those cases that have been open for longer periods of time with no family or kinship identified.
Coordination of Medical Services (COMS):
Coordination of Medical Services (COMS) is a comprehensive nursing service provided by a registered nurse responsible for identifying foster children’s medical, dental, behavioral and developmental needs and assisting caregivers and case managers in getting these needs met. Coordination of Medical Services is clinically based, child-centered and serves foster children and their families by helping to close gaps in medical care for these high-risk children.
Accelerated Permanency Support (APS):
Permanency for a child(ren) in foster care comes at the end of their journey in foster care and is often times a long-awaited culmination. Their permanency goal can be legal guardianship or adoption. Accelerated Permanency Support (APS) provides permanency support during the final stages of a foster care case. This service aims to help case managers and prospective guardians, or pre-adoptive placement providers complete all necessary paperwork timely and accurately, so delays are limited. APS staff work with attorneys to assure they have all the needed documents to get a date on the court docket allowing the child(ren) to step out of foster care and move on from the child welfare system.
