Services Offered

Finds forever families for children through special needs, traditional and international adoption services.
Contact: Adoptions Jocelyn.Gilbert@chsfl.org

Provides services, assistance and resources for children who are waiting to reunite with their parents or join an adoptive family. The program helps coordinate visits for siblings who have been separated in foster care, supervises parental visits, offers training and support for adoptive parents, and provides life books and other resource materials.
Contact Jocelyn.Gilbert@chsfl.org

Provides intensive counseling to families in crisis.
Contact Frieda Flowers for further information, or call 850-266-2700.

Offers case management for children and their families experiencing difficulties that interfere with school performance.

Provides a safe, neutral, friendly environment in which children and their families can work toward building positive, healthy, nurturing relationships.

Recruits, trains and offers comprehensive support to foster families and children.

Provides voluntary in-home services to parents raising young children. This program offers emotional support, education, parental coaching, referrals to other critical resources and more. By promoting positive parenting and healthy child development, the goal is to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Contact: Stacey.Petrosevich@chsfl.org
 

Provides counseling and services to build upon and enhance family strengths, opportunities and skills while promoting the safety of children. Counselors specialize in the needs of abused and neglected children, especially those in foster care.
Contact Diana Born at (850) 266-2797

Provides case management services for people with developmental disabilities to help them achieve their optimal level of independence.
Contact Jocelyn Gilbert

Provides comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention through a series of presentations in the schools and throughout the community. This program also offers educational and support services to expectant and parenting teens. Participants are encouraged to develop individual skills that will enable them to become responsible, productive citizens.
Contact Phyllis.Curl@chsfl.org

Part of our Kugelman Counseling Program, this is a collaborative project of Children's Home Society of Florida and the Florida Mental Health Institute, in cooperation with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. This program will demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of sustainable, culturally competent, trauma-focused interventions and trauma-informed system approaches to ameliorate adverse consequences of complex trauma experiences for abused and neglected youth in foster care and out-of-home family care, along with youth and families at risk of entering the dependency system. The TRI project will focus on how to address child and family trauma issues to promote stability, expedite permanency and prepare youth to successfully transition to independent living when they "age out" of foster care. The TRI program will also demonstrate innovative approaches to trauma screening, training and treatment for foster parents, adoptive parents, relative and non-relative caregivers, and involvement of biological parents in the Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy intervention. TRI will serve abused and neglected adolescents ages 10-14 who have been removed or are at risk of removal from their homes by the protective services system and in out-of-home family care, including foster homes, therapeutic foster homes, relative care, non-relative care and adoptive families.
Contact Kelly Stone

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Provides an array of flexible services to youth who may be at risk of dropping out of school, and to youth who are already out of school, in order to facilitate the completion of education and transition into employment. This program goes beyond the school environment to reach eligible youth and offers them opportunities for recreation and group learning experiences with their peers. YouthWorks helps teens discover and develop their unique skills, abilities and interests, guiding them to develop educational and career goals that optimize their strengths and meet their needs.