Our Vision

Safe children, healthy families and caring communities

Our Mission

Partnering with our community to protect children by building safe, nurturing and stable families.

Our Guiding Principles

We address safety first and foremost.

We respect, value and support birth, foster and adoptive families, co-workers and partners.

We partner with children and families and actively engage them in decision-making and planning.

We maintain and reunify children safely with their families whenever possible.

We are guided by comprehensive, coordinated, family-centered and strength-based assessments.

We preserve and encourage family, school and community connections as a vital part of a caring circle for children.

We provide culturally responsive services when, where and how families need them.

We minimize trauma, improve well-being and achieve permanent homes for children.

When out-of-home placement is necessary, we care for children in family homes or homelike environments that best meet their individual needs, keeping siblings together when possible.

We provide services that are timely from a child's perspective, to respond to a child's developmental and emotional needs.

We help youth become healthy, contributing members of the community.

We support and recognize staff who exemplify these principles.