Adoption Reunion Registry - a registry established by the Department of Social Services to facilitate voluntary contact between adult adoptees, their birth parents and/or siblings.

Adoption Services - The OCS Adoption Program seeks adoptive home placement of children who are in DSS custody and are legally free for adoption.

Adoption Petitions - Adoption petition services provide for staff to conduct investigations of all independent adoptions

Child Protection Investigation - Investigation of child abuse and neglect and provision of short term concrete services to children and families.

Family Services - Family Services are social services, which are provided to families and children in their own homes in order to address problems of abuse/neglect and promote the safety of the children within the family unit.

Foster Care Services - Foster Care is a protective service provided to children in the custody of the Department of Social Services. It provides substitute, temporary care (e.g. foster family home, residential care facility, etc.) for a planned period of time when a child must be separated from his own parents or relatives because of abuse and/or neglect.

Foster Parents - Foster parenting is an opportunity to make a difference in a child’s life during a time of crisis.  Foster parents help children by providing a home that provides them with stability, supervision, consistency and affection.