protective services
Help for vulnerable
Protective services are government agencies or programs that investigate abuse, neglect, or exploitation of vulnerable populations.
Child protective services (CPS) handles cases involving minors; adult protective services (APS) serves elderly or disabled adults.
The term also covers security and law enforcement functions: The Secret Service provides protective services for the president.
- foster careSupervised substitute parenting
- child welfareProtecting minors' wellbeing
- fire departmentsOrganizations that extinguish blazes
- caseworkerAgency employee helping clients
- paramedicsEmergency medical technicians
conservatorship · social workers · elder rights · safe haven · adoption services · child advocacy · police departments · family counseling · homeless shelters · kinship care · group home · mandated reporters · safeguarding · domestic violence · assistance · intervention · court order · welfare check
- child lawchild custody, child welfare, child support, child rights, custody rights
- child welfarechild welfare, foster care, child services, foster home, child protective services
- elder abuseelder neglect, elder fraud, senior neglect, nursing home abuse, caregiver abuse
- Elder Lawelder abuse, elder rights, elder care, elder neglect, eldercare
- social workcase notes, person-centered, fieldwork, community development, clinical practice
- child custodychild custody, custody order, shared custody, sole custody, joint custody
protective servicesabuse
Cruel or violent treatment
exploitation · neglect · maltreatment · trafficking · predation
protective servicesneglect
Failure to provide care
abandonment · inaction · child abandonment · indifference · willful blindness
protective servicescriminal networks
Coordinated groups committing illegal acts
abusers · perpetrators · threats · menace · organized crime