1. Child Protective Services

   Learn more about Child Protective Services, a unit within the Department of Social Services that assesses abuse, neglect, and dependency of children from birth to 18 years of age.

2. Foster Care

   Learn more about Foster Care Services, which provide a temporary living arrangement for abused, neglected, and dependent children who need a safe place to live when their parents or another relative cannot take care of them.

3. Adoption Services

   Discover the need for adoptive parents in Rowan County and learn more about the process to get started.

4. Infant Safe Sleep

   Learn more about Infant Safe Sleep and how these simple steps can help reduce the number of sleep-related deaths in infants due to preventable causes including suffocation, entrapment, and asphyxia.