Need help getting a FACES chapter and support network started in your community??? Call on FACES for assistance.

FACES Board members and staff are available to meet with a steering committee in every community in Virginia to assist in planning for local chapter and support network development. FACES, also, provides a manual with suggestions on how to "get started."

Please let us know how we can help!

Getting Started Manual 

Family support is the key to family retention and recruitment! Call us for help, today.

1-877- VA FACES (823-2237)

Virginia's Child Welfare Transformation is placing a renewed focus on finding birth family members when children enter foster care and on reunification with birth parents. Please take time to review this concise and informative booklet from City University of New York.

Have you been considering a new volunteer challenge? Are you interested in helping children succeed in school? You may want to check out this new article from Wrightslaw about becoming a special education advocate.

FACES of Virginia Families Launches Open Arms Initiative

(RICHMOND), Virginia's  FACES of Virginia Families, a non-profit support association has established the Open Arms Initiative as an effort to assist families in adopting children from the Virginia foster care system, and assist children currently in the system find a family that might be of interest to them.

In 2007, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) began the development and implementation of the Response to Intevention (RTI) program. The RTI is a comprehensive student-centered assessment and intervention model used to identify and address individual student difficulties before referral to special education.

Be a part of the health care solution and provide us with information about your experiences in arranging health care for children in foster care. The Virginia Department of Social Services is seeking to improve the medical, mental health, and dental care of children in foster care. Please take 10 minutes to complete this short FACES survey about the experiences you have had with the most recent child living in your home for foster care. Click Here to take survey. Please log on and help inform the solution!

FACES urges all members and other persons interested in improving the child welfare system to learn more about current efforts underway at the Virginia Department of Social Services. Click on this link to learn about Virginia's new practice model: www.vafamilyconnections.com.

The Virginia Department of Social Services has implemented the rate structuring tool for private provider use of enhanced maintenance payments to foster parents.  For more information from VDSS on this activity please click on this link: http://www.dss.virginia.gov/family/fc/rate.cgi

The Foster Care Code of Ethics and Mutual Responsibility Agreement has been implemented statewide. Since July 2009, all foster parents are now entitled to received this agreement and a financial agreement which identifies the amount and the DATE that foster parents will receive their maintenance checks.

Would you like your agency to provide you with a placement authorization card for your wallet/purse? Click on this link (Placement Agreement Authorization Card.doc)  for a sample card to take to your agency. It is a Word document and can be modified to reflect the unique procedure at your agency. The card has a front and back.