Lake Cumberland

Family Preservation Program services are designed to help families at risk or in crisis.  The Family Preservation Program strives to safely maintain children in their home, prevent unnecessary placement, and facilitate the safe and timely return of a child removed from a home.

Services provided by the Family Preservation Program are intensive, short-term, crisis intervention resources intended to intervene quickly and aggressively for children at risk of out-of-home placement, and in situations in which Family Preservation services afford effective protection of children, youth, families and the community. Services include Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS), Families and Children Together Safely (FACTS) and Family Reunification Services (FRS).  IFPS services are short-term, intensive, in-home services provided only to families in crisis with a child at imminent risk of out-of-home placement.  FACTS services help families (including adoptive and extended families) with children at risk of out-of-home placement or in crisis.  FACTS services also provide reunification services.  FRS services are provided to a child that is removed from the child’s home and placed in a foster family home or a child care institution and to the parents or primary caregivers of such child, in order to facilitate the reunification of the child safely and appropriately within a timely fashion.

All referrals and eligibility determinations for the FPP services are made through the Department of Community Based Services (DCBS) and the Regional Interagency Council with review by regionally-designated referrals and selection personnel to ensure referral criteria are met.