FY2024 Adopted Operating and Capital Budgets

FY2024 Adopted Budget Organizational Budgets

Division of Family Services

Office of Children and Families Mission Statement

Enhance the quality of life for children, youth and families. This encompasses planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating a comprehensive, integrated human service delivery system for children, youth and families and building on their capacity to be self-sufficient, safe, and healthy.

The Office of Children and Families (OCF) seeks to create a more efficient and effective system of care for the children and families of Frederick County through developing service, community, and financial partnerships; designing goal directed services that are client centered and family focused; targeting resources to families with the greatest needs; and implementing a monitoring system to determine client and cost outcomes. s ! Improve outcomes for disconnected/opportunity youth; 3) Reduce youth homelessness; 4) Prevent out of state placements, as well as long standing local priorities including: 5) Access to mental health services; 6) Home visiting programs for first time parents. The OCF is home to the Frederick County Local Management Board (LMB), which guides the OCF in governing, allocating resources, monitoring, and evaluating family services in the County. Each county in Maryland is legislatively required to have a Local Management Board operating with the focus of improving results for children, youth, and families. The Frederick County LMB is composed of both private and public members. Private members can include parents, business leaders, private providers, and other citizen representatives while public members include the Frederick County Department of Social Services, Frederick County Public Schools, Frederick County Department of Juvenile Services, Frederick City Police Department, Behavioral Health Authority, Frederick County Family Partnership, Frederick County Finance, Frederick County Division of Family Services, and the Frederick County Health Department.

A subcommittee of the LMB, the Local Care Team (LCT) is an interagency forum for parents and service providers to seek assistance with problem solving for the individual child and family unit, as well as addressing the systemic needs of the community. The LCT strives to ensure that children and their families receive the necessary supports and resources to live in the community successfully. Through discussion, the LCT assists with the identification of potential resources to meet identified needs of the child and parents.

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