The purpose of In-Home Family Services is to: Promote the safety and well-being of children and their families; Preserve family unity where children's safety can be supported; Maintain permanency for children; and Empower families to achieve or sustain independence and self-sufficiency. The goals of In-Home Family Services include: Enhancing the parents' ability to create a safe, stable, and nurturing home environment that promotes healthy child development; Preventing out-of-home placement of children when safety can be promoted to a sufficient proportion; and Providing, referring to, and coordinating services needed to achieve or maintain family safety, stability, independence, and unity. The Department provides a continuum of service programs designed to achieve the purposes and goals of In-Home Family Services and meet the needs of individual families. The programs include: Services to Families with Children—Central Intake (SFC-I) or Family Support Services (FSS), as described in Regulation .04 of this chapter; Services to Families with Children—Continuing (SFC-C), as described in Regulation .05 of this chapter; Intensive Family Services (IFS), as described in Regulation .06 of this chapter; Families Now, as described in Regulation .07 of this chapter; Continuing Protective Services, as described in Regulation .08 of this chapter; and Consolidated Family Services, as described in Regulation .09 of this chapter. In each program specified in §C of this regulation, services shall be: Child safety based; Family focused; Dedicated to work with families as partners; Built on respect of the family; Designed to build on family strengths and unity within the context of the family's culture and community; Dedicated to prevent, reduce, or eliminate behaviors, institutional practices, and community conditions that may place a child, family, or community at risk of maltreatment; Primarily provided in the home or community; Flexible and based on the changing needs of families and children at various times in their lives; Timely; and Designed to achieve measurable outcomes. The local department may terminate services with the family at any time during the course of the intervention when: The goals have been met and the safety issues have been resolved; There has been a referral to another unit or agency for service; or The family declines or fails to accept service, safety is not an issue, and other intervention is not warranted.