The Erie County Department of Social Services is soliciting proposals for mandated kinship preventive services.
Kinship service activities are aimed at diverting children from the formal foster care system. They include:
- Assessing safety, stability, and permanence for diverted children and their families
- Developing and implementing service plans that ensure the safety and well-being of children
- Establishing and supporting long-term and appropriate permanency goals, by respectfully engaging both the birth parent(s) and relative caregiver(s).
- Offering services which support the family emotionally, socially, functionally, medically, and financially
- Protecting birth parent rights and safely facilitating reunification whenever possible
- Providing families with comprehensive information about available state-supported options to support the care of the child(ren)