Division of Child and Family Services

Adoption in Nevada

The goal of State adoption programs is to provide safe and permanent homes for children whose birth parents cannot care for them.

Report Child Abuse & Neglect

Possible warning signes of abuse*: Bruisses, welts, or other injuries without plausable explanation ...

Child Protective Services

Possible warning signs of abuse*: Bruises, welts, or other injuries without plausible explanation ...

Cental Registry

The Nevada Central Registry is a list of individuals who have been substantiated for child abuse or neglect. The Registry is maintained to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Foster Care in Nevada

Foster care provides a family life experience, in a licensed home, for a child removed from their own home due to abuse and neglect.

Children's Mental Health

DCFS Community Services programs include mobile crisis response and stabilization services, community-based mental health therapy, medication management, early childhood day treatment, child care consultation, and wraparound care coordination services to children and adolescents and their families in Clark and Washoe Counties.