Our Services – Lucas County Children Services

Lucas County Children Services works with families, service providers and community members to assess risk and coordinate community-based services resulting in safe, stable and permanent families for children.

LCCS Services — General Overview

Lucas County Children Services gets its mandate from state of Ohio law. According to the Ohio Revised Code, public children services agencies shall do all of the following:

Investigate allegations of child abuse, neglect or dependency
Make reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of children from their homes
Accept custody of children from courts with juvenile jurisdiction
Provide temporary emergency shelter when necessary
Find family foster homes for children
Implement a system for assessing risk to children
Administer federal adoption assistance funds

Our present array of services includes:

Intake and assessment
Ongoing case management
Family team meetings
Out-of-home (foster or kinship) placement
Crossover services
Permanency support
Kinship support
Family search, adoption, and post-adoption services
Independent Living and young adult services (BRIDGES)
Visitation
Protective day care
Health/medication monitoring
Pre-service and in-service caregiver training
Resource referral