Child & Family Services

Mission Statement 

The mission of the Child/Family Services Division is to provide a comprehensive quality family support service system that includes a collaborative effort with other community resources agencies in the endeavor to enhance the quality of life for the clients served.

Guiding Principles and Goals

Provide a comprehensive family support service

·      To recruit, hire and support knowledgeable, experienced staff that reflect the linguistic and cultural background of the children and families served.

·      To ensure that program activities and services are age appropriate and meet the development needs of each child.

·      To ensure that program activities and services meet the cultural, linguistic and special needs of children and families served.

·      To utilize comprehensive internal and external communication systems.

·      To meet the identified training needs of staff on an ongoing basis.

·      To provide families with available resources that meet their specific, identified needs.

·      To provide all current and potential child care providers with resources and assistance as resources allow and as needs are identified.

Establish collaborative efforts with community partners

·      To forge and strengthen partnerships with businesses, organizations and agencies to ensure responsiveness to families’ needs.

·      To ensure that staff promote the need to support early childhood programs in the community.

·      To facilitate and encourage family involvement in the community.

·      To encourage community awareness of the need for and the availability of child care services.

Enhance the quality of life for the clients served

·      To administer all programs in an efficient, effective and timely manner so that high quality services are delivered to children and families.

·      To seek new program opportunities that enhance our services to children and families.

·      To assist parents to become active partners in all aspects of their children’s development.

·      To develop and maintain high-quality family child care homes.

·      To support sound program implementation through effective management practices/procedures in order to maintain fiscal integrity and compliance with program regulations.

·      To provide a physical environment that is safe and appropriate to the ages of children.

·      To determine the relevancy and accountability of new and existing services.

·      To maximize the use of technology for our internal and external clients.

·      To continually maintain resources that identify services and resources available in our service area to assist families.

·      To identify and maintain a resource of community services that are available to assist families.