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 About PSSF
The Promoting Safe and Stable Families
Program (PSSF) is designed to assist children and families resolve crises, connect
with necessary and appropriate services, and remain safely together in their own
homes whenever possible. This program helps more than 15,000 children and families
each year. Services are provided to meet the following objectives:
- Prevent or eliminate the need for out-of-home placements of children
- Promote family strength and stability
- Enhance parental functioning
- Protect children
- Assess and make changes in state and local service delivery systems
How to Apply for Funding
Promoting Safe and Stable Families funds may be provided through local public or private agencies, or individuals, or any combination of resources. Receipt of the funding is based upon approval by the state of individual community plans that are developed from comprehensive community-based needs assessments. New assessments are required every five years. The next assessment is due September 30, 2008.
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- Family Preservation - Help families alleviate crises that
might lead to out-of-home placements of children because of abuse, neglect,
or parental inability to care for their children. These services help maintain
the safety of children in their own homes, support families preparing to reunify
or adopt, and assist families in obtaining other services to meet multiple
needs.
- Family Support - Voluntary, preventive activities to help
families nurture their children. These services are designed to alleviate
stress and help parents care for their children's well-being before a crisis
occurs. They connect families with available community resources and supportive
networks which assist parents with child rearing. Family support activities
include respite care for parents and care givers, early development screening
of children to identify their needs, tutoring health education for youth,
and a range of center-based activities. Services often are provided at the
local level by community-based organizations.
- Time-limited Family Reunification- Facilitate a reunification
of the child safely and appropriately within a timely fashion, but only during
the 15-month period that begins on the date that the child is considered to
have entered foster care. Services are for the child and the parents or primary
care giver. Such services may include individual, group, and family counseling;
inpatient, residential, or outpatient substance abuse treatment services;
mental health services; assistance to address domestic violence; services
designed to provide temporary child care and therapeutic services for families,
including crisis nurseries; and transportation to or from any of the services.
- Adoption Promotion and Support - Encourage adoption from
the foster care system, when adoptions promote the best interests of children,
including such activities as pre and post adoptive services and activities
designed to expedite the adoption process and support adoptive families.
Accessing Services
PSSF funding is flexible, however, because localities develop a plan for its use based on
a Community Needs Assessment, you must call the locality Community Management
and Planning Team (CPMT) or the local department of social services for information
about its PSSF services.
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