What is the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS)?
The Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) is Kentucky’s primary human services agency. We protect and support vulnerable children, adults, and families in every county.
DCBS administers and is responsible for child and adult protection, guardianship services, violence prevention resources, foster care and adoption, permanency, and services to enhance family self-sufficiency, including child care, Medicaid, food benefits, social services, public assistance, and family support.
DCBS is proud to enhance services through close relationships and coordination with community partners.
Mission
The mission of the Department for Community Based Services is to build an effective and efficient system of care with Kentucky citizens and communities to:
•Reduce poverty, adult and child maltreatment, and their effects;
•Advance person and family self-sufficiency, recovery, and resiliency;
•Assure all children have safe and nurturing homes and communities; and
•Recruit and retain a workforce and partners that operate with integrity and transparency.
Vision
The DCBS vision is threefold:
•A human services system of care that operates with integrity and loyalty to a code of ethics requires courage to take responsibility for providing the highest quality of service to the vulnerable.
•DCBS is an innovative, solutions-focused learning organization built on a foundation of transparency in action and with accountability for results. Both in the organization and among our partners, we thrive on a culture of respect for diversity of opinion that is nurtured through open communication.
•Highly performing and committed, we are unified in our goal of excellence in achieving outcomes for those we serve with the level of quality we would demand for our own families.
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