You don't have to memorize all these. After a while you can almost guess what they stand for.

Maybe someday in my sparetime I'll make up new ones - we could have a contest!....

In the meantime.. In case you were wondering:

D&A: Drug and Alcohol

DA: District Attorney

DCS: Division of Child Support

DD: Developmentally Disordered

DHHS: Department of Health and Human Services

DHR: Department of Human Resources (same as DHS)

DHS: Department of Human Services


DN: Denied

DSHS: Department of Social and Health Services

DV: Domestic Violence


EI: Early Intervention

EIC: Earned Income Credit

EIP: Early Intervention Program

ESL: English as a Second Language

FA: Absent Father (where paternity has been established).

FACIS: Family & Child Information System

Family to Family: Initiative designed in 1992 from Annie E. Casey Foundation provides opportunity for states and communities to redesign and reconstruct their foster care system based on several goals. The Foundation assists with some of the associated costs.


FAST: Fast Adoption Studies and Training

FBS: Family Based Services

FC: Foster Care

FCP: Foster Care Prevention


FDM: Family Decision-Making meetings; being replaced by the new acronym TDM or Team Decision-Making meetings


FGH: Family Group Home


FP: Foster Parent

FPA: Foster Parent Association

FPAB: Foster Parent Advisory Board

FPS: Family Planning Services

FRRS: Fostercare Recruitment and Retention Specialist


FST: Family Support Team

FSAT: Family Sex Abuse Treatment

FSH: Family Shelter Home


FST: Family Support Team


FTS: Family Treatment Services


GAP: Guided Assessment Process (For Child Protective Service workers)


GIGO: Garbage In Garbage Out

HH: Head of Household

HHS: Health and Human Services

HS: Health Services

HSA: Human Services Assistant

HSS: Classification level in self-sufficiency known as Human Services Specialist

HUD: Housing and Urban Development

HV: Home Visit


ICR: Initial Court Report

ICWA: Indian Child Welfare Act.

IEP: Individual Educational Plan


IHS: Indian Health Services

IMT: Incest Management Team

ISP: Initial Service Plan


JCS: Juvenile Corrections System

JCSF: Juvenile Corrections Service Facility

JJC: Juvenile Justice Coalition

JRP: Juvenile Rights Project

JSC: Juvenile Services Commission

LAS: Legal Aid Society

LCSW: Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LD: Learning Disability


LFS: Lutheran Family Services


LV: Law Violation

Acronyms A and B



The Letter C

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