Fiscal Year Service Stats

Fiscal Year 2009-10 Service Statistics

155 clients received free and confidential pregnancy and birth parent counseling
Throughout the year, CHS trained social workers meet with expectant mothers to plan for their unborn children. These sessions are held at the CHS 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.

57 children were placed in permanent adoptive homes
At CHS, we are dedicated to finding just the right family for each child available for adoption. We place healthy infants of all races, as well as those with special needs. Special needs can mean anything from medical challenges to a family history of mental retardation.

Since 1998, our nationally recognized Partnership for Adoptions program has been committed to finding permanent, loving homes for Virginia's children in the foster care system. Many have experienced neglect and/or abuse and will have risky futures without a permanent family.

1,736 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 may 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 of court procedures, hospitalizations, and other pending dispositions for birth parents. CHS foster homes provide loving care, interest, understanding and stimulation for children conducive to their growth and development.

187 clients received search and reunion services
At CHS, we understand the importance of birth family information to adoptees. We are pleased to help clients discover their heritage, learn about their birth parents and reunite them with their birth family.