Safe families

When parents need a place for their child to go, weather it is because they lost their job and can't care for their child or more serious they have a drug problem and they want to become clean, the parents have an opportunity to put their child in a safe family. A safe family is a place a child can go temporarily without going into foster care. Safe families are a step before foster care (Lezman). "Safe families bring the number of kids going into foster care down. It allows parents to get it together before their kids are taken away. It also makes it easier for the biological family to get their children back," (Lezman). Safe families also allow frequent visitations which help the kids.