Funded through a grant with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, the Family Preservation Grant provided social casework in 18 counties including Berkeley, Braxton, Fayette, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Jefferson, McDowell, Mercer, Mineral, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Preston, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers, Webster and Wyoming Counties.  The Family Preservation team provides services to families which ensure safety to the child(ren) and support to the family.

A Family's Story:

Eileen's family was referred to the Society's Family Preservation Program because CPS was considering removing her grandsons from the home. Eileen's daughter is a drug addict and has shown hostility at home, threatening the children. Family Preservation services helped Eileen improve her parenting skills through the STEP Parenting Program, obtain psychiatric evaluations for her grandsons and begin the legal process to gain full custody of the boys. Eileen writes: "When they first came into our house, we were a wreck from the way my daughter treated us (drug abuse, verbal abuse, etc.). CHS Family Preservation has helped me to learn to cope better with life's stressors and re-establish a working relationship with my Grandsons.
I have learned so much. Like ways to correct and understand what is going on instead of over compensating for things that happen, as I always did before in the past. [The staff] have helped me develop self-control and have showed my why the boys act the way they do sometimes and have taught me effective ways of dealing with their behaviors.
This program is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. [They care] about what happens to the family unit and they are the best help I could ever have asked for."