The definition of Socially Necessary Services is: Supportive services, provided in conjunction with medical and behavioral health services, for children and families with an open youth services, child protective services, or completed adoption case to facilitate meeting their needs and case plan goals. These services help to keep the families together in their home communities, to reunite them as safely as possible, or to ensure families’ success once their children are returned.
The Family First Prevention Services Act includes historic reforms to help keep children safely with their families and avoid the traumatic experience of entering foster care, emphasizes the importance of children growing up in families and helps ensure children are placed in the least restrictive, most family-like setting appropriate to their special needs when foster care is needed. Learn more: