Alameda County Social Services, Department of Children & Family Services, is responsible for assuring the safety and well-being of approximately 1,200 children, youth, and young adults who are unable to live with their birth parents, adoptive parents, or legal guardians due to child abuse and/or neglect. Our primary goal is to reunify children and youth with their families when it is safe to do so. When that is not possible, we make every effort to find a “forever family” for them through adoption or legal guardianship.