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Tennessee Department of Children's Services

Address 1: 
Cordell Hull Building 7th Floor
City: 
Nashville
State/Province: 
Tennessee
ZIP/Post Code: 
37243
Phone: 
(615) 741-9701

From the Tennessee Department of Children's Services Page:

As Tennessee's public child welfare agency, the Department of Children’s Services is responsible for helping some of our state's most vulnerable citizens.

Our case managers have the responsibility investigating cases of child abuse and neglect. Our resource parent specialists work to find good foster homes and adoptive families. Our juvenile justice program treats the youthful offenders who are sent to us by the courts.

Indiana Department of Child Services

State/Province: 
Indiana
Phone: 
1-800-457-8283

From the Indiana ICS page:

Vision: Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities.

Mission: The Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) protects children from abuse and neglect. DCS does this by partnering with families and communities to provide safe, nurturing, and stable homes.

Values: Protecting Our Children, Families and Future.

Montana Department of Public Health and Family Services

Address 1: 
1400 Broadway (Cogswell Building)
City: 
Helena
State/Province: 
MT
Phone: 
(406) 444-5900

From the Montana CFSD site:

The Child and Family Services Division (CFSD) is a part of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. Its mission is to keep Montana's children safe and families strong.

The division provides state and federally mandated protective services to children who are abused, neglected, or abandoned. This includes receiving and investigating reports of child abuse and neglect, working to prevent domestic violence, helping families to stay together or reunite, and finding placements in foster or adoptive homes.

Utah Division of Child and Family Services

Address 2: 
120 North 200 West, #225
City: 
Salt Lake City
State/Province: 
UT
ZIP/Post Code: 
84103
Phone: 
(801) 538-4100

From the UT Child and Family Services Page:

Our goal is to have communities where children grow up safe from abuse, neglect, and dependency, where adults are protected from domestic violence, and where parents can be strengthened in their capacity to keep their family safe.

NEVADA DIVISION OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES

Address 1: 
4126 Technology Way
Address 2: 
3rd Floor
City: 
Carson City
State/Province: 
Nevada
ZIP/Post Code: 
89706
Phone: 
(775) 684-4400

From the DCFS site:

The Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), together in genuine partnership with families, communities and other governmental agencies, provides support and services to assist Nevada's children and families in reaching their full human potential. DCFS recognizes that Nevada's families are our future and children, youth and families thrive when they:

*Live in safe, permanent settings

*Experience a sense of sustainable emotional and physical well being

Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow

Author: 
Gregory Keck
Regina M. Kupecky
ISBN: 
1576833143

Keck and Kupecky are recognized experts in attachment, fostering, and adoption. This book explores the challenges parents of children of abusive backgrounds face.

Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care

Author: 
Jennifer Wilgocki
Marcia Kahn Wright
Alissa Imre Geis
ISBN: 
1557988021

This book explains to children what being in foster care means. It will help both foster parents and children make sense of what often seems to not make sense.

The Natural Child Project

From the Natural Child Project Site:

Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.

Child Welfare Information Gateway

From the Child Welfare Information Gateway site:

Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and related professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information.