Family Support Team - Olmsted County Child and Family Services

Offers long term child welfare for parents and their children, designed to empower families and provide a new pathway to achieving economic self-sufficiency. Families of Color With a Child Under 5 Years

- Case management services that help provide opportunities for early childhood education

- Connections to community resources

- Family support and advocacy

- Home visits

Families With at Least 1 Child Under 10 Years

- Participants are parents and their children who are experiencing complex challenges: Disproportionality, generational poverty, historical trauma, homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness, truancy, poor school outcomes, child welfare involvement, economic and employment instability, etc.

- Access to stabilizing federal economic programs

- Collaboration with Public Health

- Comprehensive case management services

- Early childhood/other educational supports

- Early Intervention services

- Home visits

- Ongoing support and information regarding child development, housing, budgeting, parenting, goal setting and decision making

- Workforce development resources

First Time Parents 18 Years or Older

- Families are enrolled during pregnancy through early infancy

- Collaboration with Public Health for home visits

- Monthly family activities

- Ongoing support/information regarding healthy pregnancy, child development, housing, budgeting/finances, health care, child care, education/employment goals, parenting and decision making

Pregnant and Parenting Teens Up to Age 18

- Pregnancy and parenting support program for adolescent moms, dads and their child

- Collaboration with Public Health

- Families receive support and information regarding parenting options, healthy pregnancy, child development, housing, budgeting/finances, child care, education/work goals and referrals to community resources

- Home or community visits