
Child & Family Services
Prenatal through Five
Prenatal through Five
For more information regarding services for expecting families and families with children through age five.
Early Childhood Services
Early Childhood Intervention
Six through Twelve
Six through Twelve
For more information regarding services for families with children ages six through twelve...
Thirteen through Seventeen
Thirteen through Seventeen
For more information regarding services for families with youth thirteen through seventeen.
The Child and Family Services’ vision is to create a Child and Family Services division that enhances the families’ capacity to support the growth and development of the entire family – adults, youth and children.
Guiding Principles: CFS CARE
Community partners / leader / collaborator
Family-centered approach / values families and sees as integral to the program
Strengthening families’ framework / building protective factors
Cultural respect and individualization
Analyze data continuously and modify programs to ensure quality and address gaps in services
Relationship-based teaming and respect / inclusion of all family members
Evidence-based practices and everyday experiences
The Principles of Family Support Practice:
- Staff and families work together in relationships based on equality and respect.
- Staff enhances families’ capacity to support the growth and development of all family members – adults, youth, and children.
- Families are resources to their own members, to other families, to programs, and to community.
- Programs affirm and strengthen families’ cultural, racial, and linguistic identities and enhance their ability to function in a multicultural society.
- Programs are embedded in their communities and contribute to the community-building process.
- Programs advocate with families for services and systems that are fair, responsive, and accountable to the families served.
- Practitioners work with families to mobilize formal and informal resources to support family development.
- Program are flexible and continually responsive to emerging family and community issues.
- Principles of family support are modeled in all program’s activities, including planning, governance, and administration.