The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is a state government agency responsible for overseeing child welfare, foster care, adoption services, juvenile rehabilitation, early learning, and family support programs. Its mission is to protect children, strengthen families, and promote positive outcomes for youth through prevention, intervention, and supportive services.
Child welfare and protection, foster care and adoption services, juvenile justice and rehabilitation, early childhood education and childcare regulation, family preservation, child abuse prevention, and youth behavioral health services
State legislative appropriations supplemented by federal grants and funding
State child welfare advisory committees, juvenile courts, public school systems, community-based service providers, and federal agencies such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Government agency
