Child and family services
Child and family services (CFS) is a government or non-profit organisation designed to better the well being of individuals who come from unfortunate situations, environmental or biological.
Child and family services may be mandated if: The history of the United States' response to child abuse and neglect has been marked by a tension between two missions: The legal basis for efforts to protect needy children in colonial times rested on the English Poor Law of 1601.
The attention of community leaders, philanthropists, and social reformers who were concerned about child abuse and neglect focused primarily on the children of the poorest families and on those who were orphaned, abandoned, or unsupervised.
Almshouses provided minimal standard of care to orphaned or needy children and to impoverished, insane, or diseased adults.
The second half of the 20th century saw increasing criticism of the impacts the unsanitary, chaotic almshouses had on children, especially the very young, who suffered high mortality rates there.
These agencies are usually linked to child welfare departments with broader responsibilities which include foster care and adoption.
Many parents do not realize that they are candidates for the potential loss of their children to government agencies because of their issues, such as poverty, mental illness, or neglect that lead to child abuse.
[1] In addition to education services, two generation family programs often utilize sector-based workforce development.
[3] Two generation family programs include high quality early childhood education that nurtures children's learning and development.
These subsidies aid low-income families with children under age 13 in paying for child care so that parents can work or participate in training or education activities.
Parents typically receive subsidies in the form of vouchers that they can use with a provider (e.g. relative, neighbor, child care center, or after-school program.
[11] Finally, another viable option is to increase tax credits for low and medium income families.
[12] The demands that urbanization, industrialization, and immigration placed on poor and working-class families in the late 19th century left many children unattended.
As a general progressive agenda of social reform was adapted in the early years if the 20th century, the approach of assisting parents to care for their children was more widely endorsed.
New York Foundling Asylum was a family service agency that cared for thousands of children who had no homes and needed help, otherwise they would have been left on the cold street.
