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Family Support Council
Ready! Set! School! Children in the Parents as Teachers program, an outreach of the Family Support Council, recently participated in a "graduation" ceremony. The program helps children get ready for pre-K and kindergarten and shows parents the importance of education.
Welcome to Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF).
Overview
Georgia's Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program provides federal child welfare funding,
training and technical assistance to help build state and community capacity to meet the needs
of families at-risk of child welfare intervention and families in crisis. PSSF targets four types
of families touched by the child welfare system: families at-risk and in need of support; families
in crisis where efforts are being made to preserve the family through intensive services; families
where a child has been placed in foster care and the best interest of the child is to be reunified;
and families in need of adoption or post permanency services.
PSSF Program Goals and Objectives FY 2010 - 2014
The PSSF program goals and objectives reflect an ongoing commitment to ensuring that families,
communities and organizations have access to the highest quality services and resources needed
to help children and youth grow into healthy, thriving and contributing members of our society.
Goal: To achieve better outcomes for children and families who encounter the child welfare
system by recruiting, training and retaining a coordinated network of community-based, family
centered, outcomes-driven organizations, whose mission is to support and stabilize children,
youth and families.
Objectives:
- Prevent abuse and neglect through supportive family services
- Prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families through intensive
preservation services.
- Minimize the length of time children remain in foster care through safe and expedient
reunification
- Promote permanent placements and support life-long family connections for children and
youth through adoption promotion and post permanency support services.
Strategic Investment of Resources
Title IV-B, Subpart 2, (PSSF) resources are strategically invested to enhance the state capacity
of DFCS to identify and meet the needs of families at the community level and to expand state-funded
child protection and placement service programs.
Federal PSSF resources are allocated in the following percentages:
These
federal allocations are further leveraged with matching funds contributed at the local level.
PSSF Review and Award Process
A statewide request for proposal (RFP) is issued on an annual basis which outlines the RFP
eligibility criteria, minimum requirements, and qualitative guidelines. Each proposal is reviewed
and rated on a 100 point scale and awards are made based on the availability of funds and
results of the Compliance, qualitative and current contractor review, if applicable.
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