DSS Documents
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Chapter 5, Foster Care & Permanency Planning
The Foster Care Program of the South Carolina Department of Social Services is centered on three primary purposes: child safety, legal permanency, and child wellbeing.
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Chapter 7, Foster Family Licensing & Support
The South Carolina Department of Social Services is committed to providing placement environments for children in foster care that promote their safety, stability, and wellbeing. The Foster Family Licensing and Support Unit within the agency is responsible for contributing to this objective through the recruitment, licensing, monitoring, and support of foster families.
-See section 760.1 for Home Visits & Foster Family Contacts
-See section 760.2 for Foster Parent Training
-See Section 760.3 for Reasonable and Prudent Parenting -
Chapter 9, Foster Care Licensing
Foster family care is an essential child welfare service for children and their parents who must live apart from each other for a temporary period of time because of physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, or special circumstances necessitating out-of-home care. The Department of Social Services is the principal agency in South Carolina that has responsibility for establishing, developing, maintaining, and monitoring a resource family program in accordance with federal and state mandates.
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Child & Adult Information Portal
A secure, password protected portal that allows Foster Parents to obtain important information for the child or children in your care as well as add important health documents while the child is in your care.
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Transition Services & Support (TSS)
TSS embraces a trauma-informed and strengths-based culture to authentically engage and partner with the teen and older youth population it serves. TSS supports growth of teen and older youth by providing equal access to inclusive planning, individualized services, and community resources helping them achieve their full potential. TSS promotes youth normalcy and ability to architect their own lives while building resiliency and preserving their family connections.
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KinGap
Kinship guardianship is a judicially created relationship between a child and a responsible adult that is intended to be permanent and in which the guardian assumes many of the rights and responsibilities that customarily would reside with the child’s parents. Kinship guardianship can be a permanency option for a child or youth in kinship foster care when reunification with the child’s parents or permanency through adoption is not feasible.