Child & Family Services of Eastern Virginia

Child & Family Services of Eastern Virginia is now:

Celebrating 125 Years

The Up Center understands the complex struggles individuals and families face. From foster care placement and parenting classes, to family financial counseling and assistance for seniors, we offer an array of creative programs and services to help prevent and solve problems. Each year, we touch the lives of more than 10,000 people in Hampton Roads and Eastern Virginia.

We’re here to give a hand Up.

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to view a brief video on the services The Up Center offers to people all over Hampton Roads.

Media Coverage

The Up Center’s CEO appears on Norfolk Neighborhood Network
(our segment begins 22 minutes into the show)

Edward J. Welp awarded the excellence in nonprofit leadership prize” Media Release, February 2008

WAVY TV-10 promotes Team Up
February 6, 2008

Inside Business, January 14, 2008 (PDF download)
Agency steps in to keep child mentorship program The Virginian-Pilot, January 8, 2008

Child & Family Services becoming The Up Center
The Virginian-Pilot, December 31, 2007

The Up Center congratulates Board Member Maurice Jones on his appointment as publisher of The Virginian-Pilot. Click here for more information.

The Up Center has expanded to five locations. In early April the agency opened its newest office in Norfolk near the Virginia Beach border. Earlier this year, the agency also opened an office in Suffolk.

Click here for a list of our locations.

The Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Prize was presented to Edward J. Welp, president & CEO of The Up Center, at the 7th Annual Hampton Roads Institute for Nonprofit Leadership Conference on February 27. Welp received $1,000 for professional development and an additional $1,000 was presented to The Up Center. Click here for more information.

April is National Prevent Child Abuse Month! Below are some documents you may find useful:

Advice for new moms and dads

Communicating positively with your kids

Comunicacion positiva con sus hijos

Restaurant behavior

Teaching children to be humane