Catholic Community Services 2/22/2017

City of Everett Human Needs Grant January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 Catholic Community Services Family and Children Services EXHIBIT A: Program Summary The Foster Care Program of Catholic Community Services recruits and licenses foster families for placement of children currently in State-dependent care. We provide nurturing out-of-home care for children ages birth to 18. Unfortunately, the demand for foster homes always outpaces the supply, such that we could continue to license as many homes as are interested and meet all requirements in order to serve more children and never actually meet the depth of need. We provide professional case management to ensure the supports necessary for children to thrive in stable foster placements. We also provide basic clothing to those children in need as well as school supplies to all school aged children in this program. Our goal is to retain 90% of our licensed homes annually, knowing that attrition will occur due to changing family circumstances, such as completed adoptions, family moves, etc. Adequately trained and supported families are the most stable and dedicated to continue fostering and thereby positively impacting the life of a child. The Layette program seeks to serve 100% of clients referred to CCS for assistance with supplies and resources for low-or-no income or homeless mothers of newborns. We provide diapers, formula, baby food, basic clothing and various local resources to pregnant and parenting mothers. Both of these program services align directly with the City of Everett focus on Youth: Abuse/ Neglect in seeking to provide goods and services to children at high risk for abuse and/or neglect by parents struggling to meet their most basic needs either due to financial hardship or family dysfunction.