Resource Families
Partner.
Protect.
Support.
Our Mission
Monterey County’s Family and Children’s Services provides a holistic, collaborative, and community-engaged approach to working with children and families involved in the Child Welfare System.
Our goal is to:
We need community partners to care for children in our community in an effort to achieve strong outcomes;
Recruit a large pool of qualified and nurturing Resource Families to meet the children’s needs;
Place with relatives and near-kin and support efforts to maintain family connections;
Reunification
[ree-yoo-nuh-fi-key-shuhn]
is the process of returning a child in foster care to their parent or guardian when appropriate. Monterey County Family and Children’s Services supports families through services like counseling, parenting classes, and substance use treatment. Social workers and the Juvenile Dependency Court work together to ensure the home is safe and stable before the child returns.
