Child and Family Services
Keeping Children Safe and Families Strong
Child and Family Services 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.
Children who are available for adoption through the Child and Family Services Division of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services have been removed from their own families because of abuse...
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Each year, almost 2,200 Montana children enter foster care due to abuse, neglect and other serious difficulties within their families. However, the number of resource families available to provide safe...
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Parents can give up a baby to any hospital, fire department, police or sheriff's department or to another emergency services provider...
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The children who are placed in foster care by CFSD range in age from infants to teenagers. They come from many different backgrounds and reflect the cultural diversity of the state...
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The Child and Family Services Division of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is committed to serving Native American children and working collaboratively with Montana’s tribes...
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On February 9, 2018, the landmark bipartisan Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) was signed into law. The FFPSA includes reforms that support keeping children and youth, where possible,..
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