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
