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Welfare
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Supervisors the department was able to get a grant of $15,000 for "family preservation."
In some cases the child or children are removed from the home and placed in foster care. She said in the past there were few foster care homes in the county and children were removed from their communities as well as their families. Now the depart ment has local foster care • homes for children, Mrs. Leathers said.
In some cases parental rights are terminated and the children become eligible for adoption, and the department oversees that also, she said.
The department also oversees adult protective services, mostly aimed at the elderly and mentally retarded. Frequently these are cases of self abuse or neglect, she said. Again a social worker works with families to help keep these people in their homes. Often providing companion services a few hours a day or a few hours a week can enable an elderly person to stay in their home. She said this program is a priority in Rappahannock County.
A new program is being piloted to serve juveniles assigned to the program by the counts.
Mrs. Leathers said a few years ago the department was seeing a dramatic increase in juveniles out of control and appearing in court. "Week after week I was sitting in court wondering 'what to do with this child?’" she said. She said the juvenile judge often assigned these children to foster homes, and that was not where they belonged.
The department has parenting education programs and works with families. But this school year the department received a two-year federal grant to start an after school program. Kevin Almond, director of the after school program called EDGE, attended the library program and explained what he is trying to do.
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