Local departments of social services provide direct and purchased treatment services to families. Funding sources include the Social Services Block Grant, local funding and grants administered by the VDSS as described in the following:

• Victims of Crime Act (VOCA): This provides federal funds that are awarded to public and private non-profit agencies to deliver direct treatment services to child victims of abuse and neglect as well as to adults who were sexually abused as children. Forty-two programs geographically distributed throughout the state have been awarded $1,390,096 for the period July 1, 2004 - 2005.
• The Interdisciplinary Child Abuse and Neglect Advocacy Projects: These projects provide federal funds to five community coalitions for the development and enhancement of community-based infrastructures for the investigation, prosecution, forensic medical management and treatment of child abuse and neglect for the period of July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2005.