About Us - Part 1
| The Vision |
Every child will be secure from abuse and neglect, and will become a healthy, literate, productive, economically self-sustaining citizen within a nurturing, caring, permanent home environment.
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| The Mission |
The Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) is helping our state to realize this vision for child and family services through the work of the Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) program to:
- Develop a coordinated and integrated service system that builds on the strengths of families and communities.
- Emphasize collaborative approaches, early identification of issues and the delivery of prevention, intervention and support services.
- Prevent child abuse and neglect, protect children from further abuse, and promote permanency for children within their own families or with kinship or adoptive families when birth parents are not willing or able to do so.
- Strengthen Georgia families and remove barriers to child safety, permanency and well-being.
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| Our History |
Created in 1993 by an amendment to the Social Security Act, PSSF was reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2001 under the Adoption and Safe Families Act. PSSF supports a variety of services for families with children and is one of the few sources of federal funds directed toward the prevention of problems that bring families to the attention of the child welfare system.
The program is administered in Georgia by the Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services. To encourage shared responsibility for protecting children and supporting families, PSSF requires a non-federal, local match of 25%. Matching contributions are provided by private, state or local sources.
Since 1996, PSSF has worked in partnership with community and faith-based, non-profit organizations to build a Network of 152 service agencies representing 195 programs, and providing services in 157 Georgia counties, serving children and families in 99 % of the state.
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