Community Based Prevention Intervention and Reunification Services (CBPIR)

Prevention Awareness (primary services): a community-based prevention service that is designed to increase the community’s general knowledge about child abuse and neglect and awareness of child abuse prevention services

Family Connections/ CBPIR Family Prevention Support Services: a multifaceted, community-based program that works with families in their homes and in the context of their neighborhoods to help them meet the basic needs of their children such as food and shelter and prevent child maltreatment.

Family Support Services (secondary services): a community-based program that provides services to primary/secondary caregivers of children 0-5 years of age to prevent child abuse and neglect before abuse has occurred. Family Support Services is a multifaceted, short-term, community-based service program that works with families (including adoptive, foster, and extended) in their homes and in the context of their neighborhoods to help them meet the basic needs of their children and prevent child maltreatment.

Intensive Family Intervention Support Services: a community-based program providing a higher level of support to families whose children are at risk of being placed in an out-of-home placement. The goal is to keep children safe by working with their families within their homes and communities.

Intensive Family Support Services are provided to families (including adoptive, foster, and extended) who are in crisis, and intensive, wraparound support is needed to prevent child abuse/neglect and maintain the child(ren) safely with their family of origin

Family Reunification Services: a community-based program that provides support to families and children reunifying from foster care or other out-of-home placement.

Time-Limited Reunification: a time-limited, community-based program that supports family reunification. Time-Limited Reunification (TLR) services are intensive home-based programs that support families in reunifying with their children in CYFD Protective Services (PS) custody. This includes assisting parents in complying with their treatment plan, to assist in reunifying families in an expedited timeframe. The goal is to have the family reunified within twelve months of the child’s most recent removal date.

Family Outreach

A Partnership with CYFD to divert screened out families from CPS by advocating and providing resources to meet family's needs.