Short-term, family-focused, and community-based services designed to help families cope with significant stresses or problems that interfere with their ability to nurture their children. The goal of family preservation services (FPS) is to maintain children with their families or to reunify the family, when it can be done safely. These services are applicable to families at risk of disruption/out-of-home placement across systems and may be provided to different types of familiesbirth or biological families, kinship families, foster families, and adoptive familiesto help them address major challenges, stabilize the family, and enhance family functioning. (www.childwelfare.gov)
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