The Community Optional Preventive Services Plan, or COPS, of the Westchester County Department of Social Services is designed to serve youth

• "who are not at imminent risk of foster care, but as a group are considered at general risk of further foster care by virtue of one or more problematic behaviors" or
• presence of a cluster of youth risk indicators identified as early predictors of future risk for foster care placement or
• involvement in the juvenile justice system

COPS funding for the Youth Bureau will be used to support community/neighborhood based youth services and parenting programs aimed at reducing youth risk-taking behaviors.