What it does
Part I, line 1 community based care of brevard's mission is to protect children, strengthen families and change lives through the prevention of child abuse and the operation and the management of a comprehensive, integrated, community based system of care for abused, abandoned and neglected children and their families.
Case management is the coordination of services provided to children and their families that are designed to eliminate risk to the child and strengthen the family. This includes face to face visits with children, their caregivers and parents, coordinating services to assess and provide individual services to children and parents, and reports to the court. We served an average of 1,865 children through case management.
Adoption services are overlay services provided to children whose parents had their rights terminated. These services include completing an in-depth child study, child matching events, matching staffings, completing home studies on prospective adoptive parents, and court reports. During 2024/2025 there were 441 adoptions.
Out of home care services are an array of services that are available to children who are removed from the custody of their parents. Costs incurred in this program include the cost of placing children in licensed homes and facilities along with the cost of services to support them. Over the past year we served 1,561 children. No children under the age of 7 were placed in group care.