Child Welfare

Children's Family and Community Partnerships

Children's Family and Community Partnerships is a not-for-profit subsidiary of Children's Service Society of Wisconsin. Under contract with the State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Service, Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare, Children's Family and Community Partnerships provides ongoing case management and safety services to children and families in two (of three) child welfare regions in Milwaukee. Children's Family and Community Partnerships is dedicated to ensuring the safety and well-being of children and families.

Ongoing case managers provide services to children in out-of-home care, advocating for their safety, well being and timely reunification with birthparents or adoption, if reunification is not possible. Safety services case managers provide intensive in-home services to keep children safe in their homes and prevent out-of-home care placement.

In addition to the contracts for the child welfare sites, Children's Service Society also contracts with the state for the Special Needs Adoption programs in Milwaukee and Southern Wisconsin. The program's goal is to find loving, adoptive families for children who are currently in out-of-home care. Special needs refers to the physical, behavioral and emotional needs that the children have stemming from the difficulty some of them have seen in their lives.