Children, Youth & Families (CYF)

Mission

Our mission is to help families remain together. By assisting them in the development of skills in problem solving, communication, relationship building, and trust building, we seek to ensure a safe, nurturing environment for all family members. This unit serves children and families that have a variety of needs. Families may be referred by law enforcement, mandated reporters or community members. The unit is the statutory agent for juvenile delinquency and child protection concerns. The process includes assessment, engagement, service delivery and coordination. We manage a continuum of services to protect both children and the community. We utilize statutes, administrative rules and best practice standards to provide quality services.

Services

Information & Referral

Provides information about and referrals to other departments, programs and community organizations.

Birth to 3

The Birth to 3 Program (B-3) provides early intervention services to children from birth to age 3 who are determined to have a diagnosed physical or mental condition, with a high probability of a resultant developmental delay, or with a cognitive, physical (including vision and hearing), communicative, social or emotional delay.

Court Ordered Studies

We complete step-parent adoption and child custody studies when ordered by the Green County Family Court. 

Child Advocacy Center

The Green County Child Advocacy Center ensures that children are not further victimized by the intervention systems designed to protect them. We provide a child-focused, child friendly facility in which representatives from many disciplines, including law enforcement, child protective services, prosecution, family and victim advocacy work together, conducting joint forensic interviews and making team decisions about the investigation, treatment, management and prosecution of child abuse cases. The combined knowledge and experience of professionals from different disciplines result in a more complete understanding of case issues and the most effective child and family-focused system response.

Child Welfare

Child Abuse/Neglect Assessments evaluate a child's safety in the home and determine the best way to prevent and remedy at-risk situations in families. Intake for mandated reporters and community members with reports of child maltreatment.

On-going Services help families remedy stressful situations.

Home Studies and Courtesy Services for other counties

Children's Long-Term Support (CLTS)

The Children’s Long-Term Support (CLTS) Program helps children with disabilities and their families through supports and services that help children grow and live their best lives. This is a Medicaid Wavier program that funds services for kids with disabilities

Coordinated Services Teams (CST)

Coordinated Services Teams is a community-based team process that assists families by promoting collaboration among their service providers. This process allows a team of providers to work with parents and natural supports to achieve goals and meet the needs of youth and families.

Foster Care Licensure and Training

Kinship Care

Kinship Care is a program to help support a child who lives outside of his or her home with the relative.

Prevention Services 

Includes respite care, teaching of parenting skills, and referral to counseling and other community resources.

Youth Justice

• Delinquent Youth/Juvenile Court Services provide intake, processing and disposition services to the court in cases of delinquency, truancy and other status offenses.
  
• Community Supervision

For More Information:

For more information call 608-328-9384.

To Report Child Abuse or Neglect:

• Call 608-328-9393, Monday through Friday, 8 am to 4:30 pm
• Call 888-552-6642, After-Hours, Holidays and Weekends