Fiscal Year Service Stats

Fiscal Year 2006-2007 Service Statistics

119 clients received free and confidential pregnancy and birth parent counseling
Throughout the year CHSVA trained social workers meet with expectant mothers to plan for their unborn children. These sessions are held at the CHSVA offices or at a location that is comfortable to the client. If an expectant mother wishes, she may include the child's father and family in her counseling. As a result of the counseling, some mothers choose to parent their child and others instead make an adoption plan. It is a real service when a birth mother is made a stronger parent through our counseling and collateral referrals.

56 children were placed in permanent adoptive homes
27 children were adopted through CHSVA's infant adoption program. 29 children were adopted through our nationally recognized Partnership for Adoptions program.

1,272 days of temporary foster care were provided to children in Virginia
Foster care is provided for newborn infants and children who are in need of temporary foster care while their parents are receiving counseling through the agency regarding permanency planning. Although, the majority of our babies are born healthy and in need of a permanent loving family, there are many who are born medically fragile through our private foster homes we are able to serve both.

Children can also be in our temporary foster homes because their parents many have issues relating to mental illness, substance abuse or criminal activity.We never knowingly return children to a place where they may be in jeopardy. Therefore we await the outcome court procedures, hospitalizations, and other pending dispositions for birth parents.CHSVAs foster homes provide loving care, interest, understanding and stimulation for children conducive to their growth and development.