The Department of Child Safety (DCS) exists to ensure that children thrive in healthy environments, and that’s true for every family and child without exception.
The process of helping children and families originates when someone contacts DCS with a concern over a child’s welfare. DCS responds to reports, which are most often made through its Child Abuse Hotline at 888-SOS-CHILD.  ...
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - Foster families in Pima County are getting some much needed help from local churches, thanks to a program called the CarePortal.
There are 15,000 Arizona children in licensed foster homes or kinship, with more than 5,500Â of those children coming from Pima County.
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This new program connects foster families and the Department of Child Safety...
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -Â Each year, the Arizona Department of Child Safety removes more children from their homes.
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Right now, the state reports 19,000 children across Arizona no longer living with their parents because officials have determined it is no longer safe for them to stay there. Reasons vary from neglect to physical abuse to sexual abuse.
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Families in the child welfare system are getting divine intervention through a Tucson-based program which connects social service workers with charitable churches.
A year ago, Ana Cepero was pregnant with her fourth child, unemployed, and about to be homeless. The Department of Child Safety stepped in and temporarily took custody of her kids.
"The worst thing was...
PHOENIX (Monday, March 14, 2016) – The Arizona Department of Child Safety continues to show significant productivity gains with the backlog of inactive cases continuing to drop, and wait times for family services showing tremendous improvement. As a result, DCS caseworkers are being freed up to focus more time on the children and families in need.
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The director of the Arizona Department of Child Services joins us on set to talk about the need for Foster...
PHOENIX (Thursday, March 10, 2016) – Wednesday’s discovery of an abandoned newborn girl in Mesa brings attention to the importance of Arizona’s “Safe Haven” law and the continuing critical need for more foster parents.
In desperate circumstances where a baby’s parent believes they simply can’t care for their child, babies are abandoned as occurred in Mesa this past week. It is...
Every child deserves a safe and loving home, yet some children enter the world without either. The Department of Child Safety is dedicated to the mission that all Arizona children should be safe and belong in strong forever families. Â
When a newborn child is abandoned as occurred this week in Mesa, Arizona goes to work to protect these vulnerable infants. In desperate circumstance...
Yesterday various news agencies reported the closure of the DCS placement center with an emphasis on children “once again sleeping on the floors” of state agency offices.Â
The “story behind the story” is that the placement center was needed due to an average 30-hour wait time for children to be placed. To solve the root problem, the Department of Child Safety has beefed up staff,...
