What is Child Protective Services (CPS)?
Child Protective Services is a specialized social service for children who are believed to be neglected or abused, and to their parents or other adults having permanent or temporary care, custody, or parental responsibility, or to household or family members, to decrease the risk of continuing physical, sexual or mental abuse or neglect. In instances where a child can be safely protected in his or her own home through the provision of services or other assistance to the child’s family, such an alternative is preferable to foster care placement. What are the goals of the Child Protective Services? • To protect the child and assist the parents in providing proper care and attention to the child and to remedy and decrease the risk of continuing abuse and neglect; and • To provide an alternate plan of care for the child when parents are unable to provide proper care and attention to the child. • Child Protective Services are not designed to address all issues related to family dysfunction
