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After School AKAdemy offers an arts-based program to middle school girls from Booker T. Washington, Midtown Academy and Mt. Royal Middle Schools, to help improve their school performance and provide a safe environment after school. Members of the Rho Xi Omega chapter of AKA sorority act as mentors to participants.

Arena Playhouse: 410-383-2691

Children’s Permanency Program recruits and trains parents to foster/adopt medically fragile infants and children. We place drug-exposed, HIV-exposed or alcohol-affected infants in foster homes while offering counseling and case management services to birth parents. If birth parents are unable to create a stable home for their children, foster families move forward with adoption. Foster/adoptive parents are also recruited to adopt older children. FCS provides ongoing training and support to families after adoption.

Bolton Hill Office: 410-669-9000 ext. 317

School Outreach and Advocacy Program (SOAP) helps at-risk students succeed in school and make positive life choices through early intervention and prevention services, including counseling, consultation with teachers, and family therapy, in six Harford County elementary schools.

Bel Air Office: 410-838-9000

Services for Families
Abuse Treatment Services help people who have experienced sexual, physical or emotional abuse. Counseling is offered to victims and their families. Advocacy and support services in the home, school and community are also offered. Not all services are available at each center. Please call for details.

Anne Arundel Abuse Counseling Center
Annapolis and Glen Burnie Offices: 410-571-8341

Child Abuse Treatment Services (CATS)
Falls Road Office: 410-366-8145 and Woodlawn Office: 410-281-1334

Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Centers
Westminster Office: 410-876-1233 and Bel Air Office: 410-838-9000

Counseling helps couples and families create and maintain a safe and nurturing environment, promotes family cohesion and harmony, and makes it possible for individuals to function at the highest level possible.

Annapolis Office: 410-571-8341

Bel Air Office: 410-838-9000

Columbia Office: 410-997-3557

Falls Road Office: 410-366-8145

Glen Burnie Office: 410-571-8341

Laurel Office: 410-880-5917

Woodlawn Office: 410-281-1334

Westminster Office: 410-876-1233

Domestic Violence Programs offer counseling, case management, emergency shelter, and a 24-hour hotline for victims and their children. Abusers participate in group educational programs.

Woodlawn Office: 410-281-1334

Westminster Office: 410-876-1233

Healthy Families Howard County provides the home-visiting component of a comprehensive program designed to reduce child neglect and abuse by supporting first-time parents in Howard County.

Columbia Office: 410-997-3557

HIV Case Management supports Baltimore families dealing with HIV/AIDS in their efforts to function independently. Helps families address medical, employment, and housing needs and obtain health care.

Baltimore City Office: 410-366-1980

Park Heights Family Support Center is a community-based center for families with children under four years of age, offering literacy, parenting and nutrition classes; GED preparation and employment readiness services; health screenings; and referrals to community resources. Staff works with parents and their children to ensure that each child achieves developmental milestones.

Park Heights Office: 410-578-0244

Services for the Elderly and Disabled

Adult Day Centers are fully accredited adult medical day care programs providing stimulation, socialization, nutritious meals and nursing supervision for mentally and/or physically impaired adults in a pleasant and comfortable environment.

Carroll County Adult Day Center: 410-840-0406

Harford County Adult Day Center: 410-838-3222

Foster Grandparent Program provides low-income senior citizens with a stipend for work in community settings with special-needs children in need of a loving, attentive relationship with a nuturing grandparent figure. A federally-funded program.

Administrative Office: 410-366-6356

In-Home Caregiving and Case Management Services help individuals remain safely in their community, provide caregiver training and respite and promote family stability. Case managers coordinate health and personal care services individuals may need to avoid premature institutionalization. Certified nursing assistants, under the supervision of registered nurses, provide light house-keeping, meal preparation, laundry, shopping and personal care to elderly or disabled adults as well as those recovering from injury, illness or surgery. Sliding-fee scale services are offered throughout Central Maryland.

Baltimore City: 410-366-5614

Bel Air: 410-838-3222

Columbia: 410-997-3557

Glen Burnie: 410-571-8341

Laurel: 410-880-5917

Westminster: 410-840-0406

Woodlawn: 410-281-1334

Oscar G. Murray Program is a program that provides monthly grants or lump sum payments to help support widows and orphans of former B&O Railroad Company employees. The charitable trust is administered by the Baltimore Community Foundation and coordinated by Family and Children’s Services.

Administrative Office: 410-366-5614, ext. 269

Senior Community Service Employment Program offers low-income senior citizens work in a grant-funded training program in public or nonprofit organizations with the goal of moving workers to permanent jobs. This program is offerred in Baltimore City and Carroll and Howard counties.

Baltimore City Office: 410-366-5614, ext. 268
Carroll County Office 410-840-0406
Howard County Office 410-997-3557

West End Apartments offer independent living to low to moderate income Carroll County seniors in eight barrier-free apartments.

West End Place : 410-848-2433

Services for Employers

Employee Assistance Program With 160 years of experience in strengthening communities by helping vulnerable families and individuals, it makes sense to offer our services to the business community as well. Businesses, governments and institutions contract with Family and Children’s Services for employee assistance services.

The services we offer include:

  • employee assessment and counseling
  • 24 hour accessibility
  • consultation to supervisor and managers
  • customized workshops and training on a variety of topics
  • on-site critical incident stress debriefing (CISD)
  • program promotional assistance

Family and Children's Services has provided employee assistance services to large and small organizations, including:

  • Carroll County Public Schools
  • Delta Chemicals
  • Maryland Association of Nonprofits
  • Random House
  • SSA Federal Credit Union
  • State of Maryland

For information about how we can help your organization, please call 410-281-1334.

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