(1) As used in this act:(1) “Department” means the Department of Human Services.(2) “Family preservation services” means intensive, short term concentration of comprehensive support coordinated by professional social workers to stabilize family cruises, foster family self-sufficiency, and to reduce or avoid the need for unnecessary and imminent foster care placement.(3) “Foster care” means the placement of a child by the Department in a home or facility designated by the Department's rules and regulations as a “foster home”.(4) “Imminent” means a decision has been made by the Department that, without family preservation services, a petition requesting the removal of a child from the family home will be immediately filed in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, or that a voluntary placement agreement will be immediately initiated.
(1) “Department” means the Department of Human Services.
(2) “Family preservation services” means intensive, short term concentration of comprehensive support coordinated by professional social workers to stabilize family cruises, foster family self-sufficiency, and to reduce or avoid the need for unnecessary and imminent foster care placement.
(3) “Foster care” means the placement of a child by the Department in a home or facility designated by the Department's rules and regulations as a “foster home”.
(4) “Imminent” means a decision has been made by the Department that, without family preservation services, a petition requesting the removal of a child from the family home will be immediately filed in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, or that a voluntary placement agreement will be immediately initiated.