Child & Family Services of Northeast Michigan

Sometimes family situations are such that it is in the best interest of all family members for children to be temporarily placed in a foster home to receive day-to-day care, affection and security. Foster care parents work as part of a professional team by providing a family living situation and implementing a treatment plan developed by the child's treatment team. The plan lists the requirements for all involved parties with the focus for returning children to their home.

We designed the Child & Family Services foster care program for children who have been removed from their homes due to abusive circumstances and/or delinquency. They can be placed in a regular
or intensive foster care home. Children in our care often have behavioral and/or emotional problems and need extra support and attention. We provide a wide range of services to these children, their families and their foster care parents.

Children and teenagers are referred for a number of reasons by The Family Independence Agency or the Family Courts. The children may have been neglected, abused or delinquent. All children in foster
care need a loving and sensitive foster family committed to helping them through a difficult time.

The treatment team develops a treatment plan for all parties involved. The plan lists all the necessary requirementswith a focus on returning the children to their home. In some cases, the court
may terminate the parents rights because returning the child home may not be in the childs best interest. In this case a foster care worker would work with the adoption worker to place the child in an appropriate adoptive home. more