Mid-Florida
Services Offered
Adoption of Children from Foster Care
A dedicated team of highly motivated professionals works closely with families to best serve the children in our care. In North Central Florida, more than 120 children are waiting for their forever families. Most are or older or may have siblings, and some have physical, emotional or mental challenges. All long for the love and security only a forever family can provide.
To learn more about the adoption process, please visit our
Adoption page.
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Crisis Response Team
The Crisis Response Team offers flexible services designed to address therapeutic and environmental issues in the family to stabilize crisis situations quickly, with the ultimate goal of promoting family stability, preventing out-of-home placements and preserving the family unit. This includes therapy, domestic violence information and referral, anger management, child behavior management, emergent mental health and/or substance abuse issues, financial crises, and linkage to community resources and supports.
Dependency Case Management
Offers full-service case management to children and families in which abuse and neglect has caused court involvement. Services include monthly in-home supervision, preparation of court reports and court representation, case plan development, permanency planning and staffing, case documentation and data management, and coordination with other providers and community resources.
Family Partners and Family Team Coaching
Intense in-home counseling for families whose children have been identified as being at risk for abuse or neglect. Program provides counseling, parent education and support services.
Family Treasures Thrift Shop
The Family Treasures Thrift Shop raises funds for CHS programs and helps families in our programs by providing them with donated items.
Family Visitation Centers
These warm, homelike centers provide a safe place for children and their parents to spend time together during court-ordered supervised visits. At Family Visitation Centers, caring caseworkers demonstrate positive role modeling for parents while ensuring children are safe. Additionally, these centers allow divorced parents to exchange their children in a neutral setting without seeing one another, saving the children from exposure to more parental acrimony.
Volunteer and Intern Opportunities:
For more information on volunteer and intern opportunities, please visit our
Get Involved page.
Haven House
After serving children and youth through Haven House for 11 years, we regret to announce that we have closed this program. Clients may request their records by calling Christy Gibbons at (866) 437-5451 or visiting us at 711 NW 1st Street, Gainesville, FL 32601.
Healthy Families
Healthy Families. Healthy Futures.
This voluntary in-home program helps increase positive parent/child interactions, improve parenting skills, ensure proper attention to health services, promote school readiness and develop self-sufficiency in parents. We offer services to qualified families expecting a child and to qualified families with children under age 5. Healthy Families provides information and guidance as well as emotional and practical support. Healthy Families is designed to help prevent child abuse and poor childhood outcomes.
Pictures from the 2009 Healthy Families graduation ceremony.
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READ!
READ! is an educational intervention program designed to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect for increasing numbers of children. Based loosely on the “Born to Read” program developed by the Florida Library System, READ! includes all youth (ages 0-18) Children’s Home Society of Florida serves.
When families spend time together reading and discussing issues in their homes, they develop an open forum for growth and development.
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If you're interested in the READ! program or would like to donate new or gently used books, please e-mail
READMidFlorida@chsfl.org or call 800.300.9567.