Specifications include, but are not limited to: Therapeutic family preservation services and reunification services are designed to protect, treat, and support families including those whose children may be living at home, placed with kin, or in the Department of Children’s Services’ (DCS) custody and placed in foster care. Services include a range of activities directed towards: • increasing the safety of children so they can remain in or return to their own homes, • decreasing the risk of placement in state custody, • decreasing the length of stay in foster care, • increasing the family’s ability to safely maintain the child in the home when returned from foster care placement or released from state custody, thereby • decreasing the likelihood of a re-entry into foster care.