Children & Families Community Services

Family Service provides a comprehensive array of community based programs to address concerns impacting children and their families. Services range from case management to therapeutic home-based interventions to center based specialized partial care programs.

The Charles Yates Center for Children and Families provides a state-of-the-art facility for many programs. Services offered at the Yates Center engage consumers in experiential learning activities, group-based interventions, and educationally oriented trainings to enhance parenting and self sufficiency.

Maquellage's Story...

Maquellage grew up in foster care after her grandmother passed away when she was 13. Her life began to spiral out of control. After becoming a teen mother, the Division of Youth and Family Services removed her two children from her home due to extreme financial hardship and homelessness...click here to read the full story

Maquellage's Story...

Maquellage made the decision to do everything possible to successfully reunite with her children but without a positive support system she struggled to meet the requirements. With little hope, she enrolled in the Intensive Supervised Visitation program at the Charles Yates Center for Children and Families on March 12, 2009.

In the Intensive Supervised Visitation program, Maquellage received case management services and successfully completed the Nurturing Parenting program. She enrolled in a Medical Assistant program to begin a career and create financial stability for her family. Determined to succeed, she graduated this spring with a high grade point average and quickly secured a job. From there, Maquellage moved into a stable housing environment through the Haven program.

During her 15 months with Family Service she showed remarkable improvement in her parenting ability and maturity level. On May 7, 2010 she was proudly reunified with her two children. Today the family receives therapy with our Family Preservation Services program and her daughter, Chanelle attends our First Step pre-school program. Despite the challenges she faced, Maquellage found the courage and drive to turn her life around.

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Home & Community Based Interventions:

Family Preservation Services (FPS)
Strengthening Families (SFSS)
FOCUS (Family Outreach: Creating, Understanding and Stability)
FLEX
TAPP(Teenage Parents Program)
Intensive Supervised Visitation Program

Partial Care, Case Management and Counseling

First Step
Youth Partial Care
Passages
Family Learning Center (FLC)
Youth Case Management (YCM)
Children’s Outpatient Program

Adoption Services

The Jean Fredrickson Adoption Support Program (JFASP)
Adoption Support Bridge Program
Act II

Transitioning Young Adults and Adolescents

On My Own
Youth Permanency Demonstration Project
School Based Youth Services (SBYSP)

Foster Care Support

Foster FLEX
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Foster Home Support Specialist (FHSS)