Safety & Permanency Services

Safety Services

Services may only be referred through the Iowa Department of Human Services. Family Resources, Inc covers Scott, Muscatine, and Cedar Counties in Iowa. Safety Plan Services are designed to provide culturally sensitive interventions and supports to assure safety of a child/children during the Department’s time limited child protective or CINA assessment process. The Department expects that the Safety Plan Services delivered in each case will vary in intensity depending on the individual Department Safety Plans for each case and the children in that case. The Department worker will determine whether Safety Plan Services are purchased and implemented during the child abuse or CINA assessment process. The Safety Plan will identify specific concerns and issues that need to be addressed to protect the child.

Family Safety, Risk and Permanency Services

Referrals may only come through the Iowa Department of Human Services and Family Resources, Inc covers Scott, Muscatine, and Cedar Counties in Iowa. Regardless of the setting in which a family’s children reside, Family Safety, Risk and Permanency Services are designed to deliver, in the family’s home and various other locations as determined by the family plan, a flexible array of interventions and supports to promote achievement of: child safety, preservation of the family unit, strengthening the protective capacities of the children’s parents or caretakers, reduction of risks of maltreatment to the children, placement prevention, and achievement of permanency for children in placement through: safe reunification with their family, permanency placement with a relative, placement in an adoptive or guardianship arrangement, or movement toward another planned permanency living arrangement (APPLA).