Services for Children

Adoption & Foster Care Placements
CHS has hundreds of loving families who have completed rigorous training to prepare them to parent children in foster and adoptive placements. We train and support foster and adoptive families so they are better equipped to parent children with diverse and challenging needs. CHS offers several different foster care programs throughout the state including infant, family foster care, therapeutic foster care, and respite care.

Child-Centered Recruitment
Children in the Child-Centered Recruitment program become active participants in their recruitment process. This process allows CHS to carefully identify each child’s unique needs and match him or her with a family who can best meet those needs, ensuring the most successful results and working as a part of the child’s multi-faceted adoption team. Our recruitment staff is professionally trained to develop community connections to ensure maximum impact of recruitment efforts, as well as how to use innovative technologies and media.

Waiting Child Television Series
CHS collaborates with four television stations across NC to produce Waiting Child series. The segments air weekly or bi-weekly during prime news time on WECT-Wilmington, FOX-Charlotte, WXII-Winston Salem, and WNCT-Greenville. These series not only promote individual children available for adoption, but they also consistently generate inquires from potential families.

WXII • WECT • WNCT • Fox Charlotte

Adoption Chronicles
Adoption Chronicles bring kids to “life” by showing video interviews of children awaiting adoption. These videos combine professional production skills with web-based technology to display children available for adoption in an unbiased and positive way. Professional interviews and streaming video provide a multidimensional perspective of the children increasing their chances for a successful match. Click here for more information on Adoption Chronicles.

Family Finding
The Family Finding program reconnects children in foster care with biological family members and other important adult influences. Using web-based technology to find biological family members, CHS works to rebuild relationships and explore potential permanent family placements for the child. Though a suitable relative home is not always found, Family Finding does provide children with much needed connections to their relatives. It is creating a support system and a sense of “home” for many children living in foster care.

As part of our commitment to help youth make permanent family connections, CHS offers Family Finding services through North Carolina. Family Finding outcomes include:

• An average of 40 family members identified for each child.
• Functional family members work together to take responsibility and develop realistic plans for the child’s safety and wellbeing.
• Youth are placed with family whenever possible.
• Children learn their family story and develop a sense of self history.
• Children have a higher probability of permanence and wellbeing now and into adulthood.

Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
CHS has programs to help teens involved with DSS who are dealing with multiple school suspensions, truancy, runaway behaviors, verbal and physical aggression, anti-social peer groups, and other behavioral and emotional challenges learn to make better choices and take responsibility for their actions.

To refer a child for services, please click here.

For more information, please call 1-800-632-1400 or contact us.