Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services

BECAUSE GOOD ENOUGH IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Testing, analysis and evaluation of the following services of others for the purpose of certification-- addiction or chemical dependency counseling; adoption services; adult day care; adult protective services; case management services; child care services; child protective services; co-dependency counseling; community building; community education services; community organization; community prevention services; community supported living; counseling services; crisis intervention services; day treatment; debt counseling services; diagnostic, assessment, and referral service for substance abuse; domestic violence counseling; drop-in centers for the homeless; early childhood education; early intervention services for infants and young children; emergency telephone response service; employee assistance programs; employment and vocational services; family-centered casework; family child care homes; family life education; family strengthening programs; financial management services; foster care; foster care for medically fragile infants and children, foster family care; foster or group care for unaccompanied minors, therapeutic treatment, foster care group homes; group services for social development and enrichment; home visitor services; homemaker-housekeeping services; independent living for youth information and referral service; in-home aide services; immigration and citizenship assistance; intensive family preservation; intensive outpatient treatment; intercountry adoption services; kinship care; mental health services; opiod treatment; outreach services; partial hospitalization; pregnancy counseling and supportive services; psychosocial/psychiatric rehabilitation; rape crisis and/or battered women's service; refugee resettlement service; residential centers; residential treatment; respite care; runaway children and youth service; safe homes; scattered site housing; shelter services; short-term shelter care; social advocacy services; support groups; supportive services; substance abuse counseling; substance abuse treatment; therapeutic outdoor service; transitional housing; treatment-oriented day care; volunteer friendship service, for families and children, foster homes, adoption agencies, juvenile centers, counseling centers, substance abuse centers, and credit counseling services;The certification mark certifies that the services for families and children, foster homes, adoption agencies, juvenile centers, counseling centers, substance abuse centers, and credit counseling services, meet objective criteria of ethical practice, rights and responsibilities, continuous quality improvement, organization integrity, management of human resources, quality of the service environment, financial management, training and supervision, intake, assessment and service planning, service delivery, behavior management and administration and risk management, set forth by the certifier in the certification standards.;