Our mission is to lead the community in the protection of children at risk of abuse and neglect. This is accomplished by working with families, service providers and community members to assess risk and coordinate community-based services resulting in safe, stable, and permanent families for children.
Our Mandate
Lucas County Children Services gets its mandate from state of Ohio law. According to the Ohio Revised Code, public children services agencies shall do all of the following:
- Investigate allegations of child abuse, neglect or dependency
- Make reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of children from their homes
- Accept custody of children from courts with juvenile jurisdiction
- Provide temporary emergency shelter when necessary
- Find family foster homes for children
- Implement a system for assessing risk to children
- Administer federal adoption assistance funds