Our Direct Services

Casey Family Services is a fully licensed and accredited nonprofit child welfare agency that provides a range of supports and services for vulnerable children and their families.

Through its work, Casey aims to achieve the following results:

  • decrease the number and rate of children entering foster care;
  • increase the rate and number of children connected to stable and permanent families;
  • ensure that more children have their emotional and physical needs met; and
  • reduce inappropriate disparities in the child welfare system related to race, gender, age, and ethnicity in the child welfare system.

In addition to providing quality clinical supports to children and families, the agency’s direct services focus on strengthening and supporting families to prevent unnecessary foster-care placement, as well as connecting children engaged with the foster care system to families that will offer a lifetime of support and care.

Family Strengthening Programs for Families at Risk of Child Welfare Involvement

Family Preservation and Support focuses on keeping at-risk children at home and families intact by responding to immediate crisis prior to children being removed from the home. Family Resource Centers offer community supports and referrals to vulnerable families in neighborhood- or school-based settings.

Permanency Services for Children Involved with Child Welfare

Family Reunification work to return young children in foster care safely and timely to their birth families soon after being removed from the home. Foster Care and Adoption provide support to children who are living with Casey foster families and strives to help children achieve permanence through a return to family, adoption, or placement with a relative or guardian. Permanency Planning facilitate a process for children and youth – including those not in a Casey foster family – to achieve and sustain a family connection and exit foster care. Post-Permanency Services provide comprehensive services for adoptive parents and guardians, as well as their children, who have grown their family through the foster care system. Tags: permanence, family strengthening