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Welcome!
Child & Family Services is one of the largest private not-for-profit family
service agencies in the country, and is recognized as a national leader in innovative
programming and services.
The agency provides children, adults, families and businesses with a vast array
of mental health and human service programs including: family counseling, family
mental health services, preventive services; foster care, special needs adoption
and after-hours protective services; residential treatment services for youth; special
education programs; domestic violence prevention, treatment and intervention services;
employee assistance programs; senior services; family loan; community-based services;
and family life education.
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...counseling for myself or a loved one.
...in-home support for my family and children.
...help for an offender or victim of a crime.
...help in resolving or arbitrating a dispute.
...information on becoming a foster or adoptive parent.
...information on group homes for my child.
...programs and services for seniors, workplaces, etc.
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Counseling Programs
When individual families understand their problems and themselves better, their
lives can change. Working with highly trained, experienced mental health specialists,
the people we serve develop that understanding and improve their coping skills.
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Service Coordination Programs
Child & Family Services coordinates intensive multi-agency, at-home support
for families with children at risk for out-of-home placement.
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Restorative Justice Programs
Restorative Justice philosophy represents a very different lens to view, understand
and respond to crime and victimization. It is a new way of thinking about how a
community can respond to crime. It holds offenders accountable and places emphasis
on repairing the harm done to the victim and the community.
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Dispute Resolution/Arbitration Programs
Child & Family Services Center for Resolution & Justice offers mediation
and arbitration services for parties involved in community disputes which often
include neighbors, families and friends. The Center offers a total of nine programs
- seven of which were previously offered by the Dispute Resolution Center under
the auspice of the Better Business Bureau.
View Dispute Resolution/Arbitration Programs
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Children's Services
Children and foster parents receive specialized services, including family-based
treatment and counseling, therapeutic foster care for severely emotionally disturbed
children, and a special-needs adoption program for children who are difficult to
place. In addition, Child & Family Services offers ' after-hours child protection
services in the evening, on weekends and on holidays.
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Residential Treatment Programs
Child & Family Services offers intensive residential treatment in small group
homes to children with serious emotional disturbances.
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Other Programs and Services
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Current Issue of Portraits of Hope
Agency Staff Receives Cutting-Edge Training In Trauma-Informed Treatment
The field of counseling is undergoing dramatic changes with the introduction of
Trauma Informed Treatment, a state-of-the-art method of treating mental health issues
by recognizing and addressing trauma as a key underlying cause of a person’s negative
behaviors.
Over the next two years, Child & Family Services will provide agency staff with
cutting-edge Trauma Informed Treatment Training to give staff new tools to deliver
the most effective treatments for children and adults who are acting out because
of past trauma or loss. The training is funded and made possible through a grant
from the Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation.
Click here to read more from the current edition of Portraits of Hope.
Click here to read past editions of Portraits
of Hope.
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Upcoming Events
Latest News
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Child & Family Services Receives $9,400 grant
Click here to view all the latest news at Child
& Family Services.
Click here for Child &
Family Services’ Annual Reports.
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