“Dedicated to the safety, well being and permanence of children, through the provision of child-centered family-focused services”
Fayette County Children and Youth Services was established by the Board of County Commissioners in 1936.
The agency provides comprehensive services to troubled, neglected, abused, and dependent children and their families.
The goal of Children and Youth Agencies is to ensure for each child a permanent, legally assured family which protects the child from abuse and neglect.
Every child has the right to grow up in a permanent family. Every reasonable effort must be made to keep families together and placement out of the home should only occur if the well being of the child can not be assured within the family. To help meet the medical, social, and emotional needs of children and families unable to provide for themselves. To assist those capable of becoming self sufficient through skill building, opportunity enhancement, and family focused services. To help protect children from abuse, neglect, exploitation and endangerment.
The services of FCCYS is designed to do the following:
To help keep children in their own homes; to prevent abuse, neglect and exploitation; and to help overcome problems that result in dependency and delinquency.
To provide temporary, substitute placement in foster homes and residential child care facilities for a child in need of such care.
To reunite children with their families when temporary, substitute placement has been necessary.
To provide a permanent, legally assured family for a child who has been in temporary, substitute care and who cannot be returned to his own home.
To provide services and care when ordered by the Court for children who have been adjudicated dependent or delinquent.
Children and Youth Services fulfills its responsibilities to Fayette County's children by providing the following:
Intake Services
Investigation of complaints of child neglect and abuse
Office interviews
Home and School Visits
Supportive Services
Referrals to other agencies
Court Intervention
Placement Services
Foster Care
Adoption
Reunification Plans
Independent Living Training
Educational Programs
Services are provided by the agency based on the needs of the child and family in a confidential and caring manner.
The organization is made up of state certified employees structured in the following chart. Equal Opportunity Employer
Fayette County Children and Youth Services was established by the Board of County Commissioners in 1936.
