CAS Programs:

Family Care Program:
Trained Family Care Specialists work in-home to teach parenting, homemaking skills, budgeting and similar activities, and to help in assessing needed resources. This is a contract service of the State Department of Human Resources.

Foster Care Program: more!
The temporary placement of a child into a home when the birth family is unable to meet the needs of that child.

Respite Foster Care Program:
The temporary placement into a foster home of a child who has a physical, emotional or mental disability. The purpose of the program is to provide short-term relief for the family.

Family Intervention Program:
In-home services to assist families in the transition from welfare to work, helping them overcome barriers to obtaining employment. In-home counseling and support services to strengthen families experiencing difficulties which could cause the children to be "at-risk" for potential abuse and neglect. Services include parenting, educational advocacy, nutrition, budgeting, housing and emotional support. Comprehensive social services to families affected by HIV/AIDS or other terminal illness. Services include: case management; emotional support; counseling for grief and loss issues; and permanency planning.

Teen Parent Project: more!
A comprehensive Outreach Program designed to assure the health of the teenage mother and infant, to reduce the risk of repeat pregnancies, and to improve parenting skills.

Project Dads: more!
A component of the Teen Parent Project, it is a comprehensive Outreach Program aimed at helping teenage fathers become more responsible and effective parents.

Adoption:
Although Children's Aid Society no longer accepts applications from those seeking a child to adopt, it continues to offer adoption home studies, birth parent interviews, and post-placement supervision in special needs situations. The agency collaborates with SDHR for adoption recruitment activities and adoption home studies.

Post Adoption: more!                                                       Persons adopted through CAS receive factual information about their medical history, counseling, and intermediary services to search for and contact their birth families.  Support groups and adoption related counseling services are provided.

Alliance - STAR, Therapeutic Foster Care, and Wraparound Services:
The Alliance STAR Project provides short term respite and assessment foster care for children with emotional and/or behavioral needs. Wraparound provides intensive home-based services to help families safely care for their children in their own homes. A joint effort of Children's Aid Society, Family and Child Services, Glenwood Mental Health and AGAPE, contracting with Jefferson County Department of Human Resources.

Family Finders:
CAS serves as the lead agency for the Alliance project that focuses on statewide recruitment and training for foster families to serve vulnerable children and adults, and recruitment and home studies of adoptive families. CAS subcontracts with child-placing agencies throughout Alabama for these services.