ChildNet Youth & Family Services

Behavioral health Services provide community based Services to high risk children in the community. The program helps children and their families take charge of their lives through increased decision making utilizing a solutions focused approach. A total of 6,899,842 mental health minutes were provided.

The relative home assessment Services program provides support Services to relative caregivers who have primary care of children residing with them. Providing comprehensive support Services to relative caregivers will eventually result in positive Youth outcomes in education and career success. A long range goal is an increased rate of permanency for children who could not be reunited with parents. A total of 926 children were served in the relative home assessment Services program.

Foster Family network (ffn) was established in 1986 to address the growing need for quality foster homes for children of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and/or abandonment. Children are referred to ffn by county departments of social Services. The program places boys and girls, birth to 21 years old, in loving foster homes. Ffn recruits and trains families, including single-parents, who are willing to provide a warm, stable, nurturing environment for these children. Ffn's social work staff provides ongoing training and support for the foster families. A total of 106 children were served in the foster care program.

All other programs - adoptions and other misc. Small programs that benefit children.the adoption program allows children already in certified foster homes, as well as children waiting for adoptive homes to receive adoptive Services. These Services include the adoptive home study and subsequent Services to complete the adoption process. During the year covered, 21 children were adopted under this program.