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

02/20/2026