In addition to benefit payments, local social service agencies offer a wide variety of services to meet social needs. If you have any questions or would like more details, please contact the Virginia Department of Social Services at The purpose of adoption services is to help children who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents become permanent members of a new family.
The Virginia State Department of Social Services maintains a registry of children available for adoption as well those families who have approved home studies. This Department engages in a variety of activities designed to find families for this community's waiting children and raise awareness including annual Adoption Celebrations and Heart Galleries.
Protective services are provided to aged, blind, and disabled adults who are unable to protect themselves from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Services are offered regardless of the person's income or financial resources. Persons may live alone, with relatives, or in nursing homes, adult care residences, hospitals, or with people to whom they are not related.
Adult Protective Service complaints may be made by calling during normal business hours. After-hours emergency complaints should be made to the local police department by calling or by calling the state hot-line at Companion services enable aged or disabled adults to remain in their homes rather than move to institutions. Other services protect adults from abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
If institutionalization becomes necessary, arrangements are made for appropriate care. Reports of abuse and neglect of children under 18 are investigated with the goal of protecting children from physical, mental, sexual, emotional, and medical neglect as well as from abuse and exploitation. Child Protective Service complaints may be made by calling during normal business hours. After-hours emergency complaints should be made to the local police department by calling or by calling the state hot line at Child Care Services provides low-income families with financial assistance to find affordable, quality child care for their children.
