Family and Children Services at Central Maryland ( FCS ) is a non-sectarian social service agency established in 1849. FCS addresses the problem from birth to the end of life with the goal of helping every individual reaches their highest potential. FCS is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization.
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Services
FCS offers counseling, case management, training, and recruitment of host families and community volunteers to vulnerable populations, including:
- A medically fragile baby (exposed to drugs, alcohol or HIV)
- Victim of child sexual abuse
- Victims of domestic violence and their children
- Teenagers at risk
- Young parents without high school degree or job skills
- Families dealing with AIDS
- Low-income and senior families
- Aged with dementia and disabled adults
Some services are offered at no cost; others are offered at shifting costs measured by earnings. Participation in some programs is a court order.
In fiscal year 2008, FCS served 8,000 families and individuals in Central Maryland.
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Location
In 2008 there were 13 FCS offices located in Baltimore City and surrounding counties Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, and Howard. Some services are offered at home or in community settings. Although general counseling and home help for disabled parents and adults are available throughout Central Maryland, not all services are offered in all jurisdictions.
FCS operates domestic violence programs in the Baltimore and Carroll areas, and adult day centers in Carroll and Harford County. Some special programs, such as After School AKAdemy, Childhood Immortality Program, Monitored Visits and Exchange Programs and Family Support Centers, are only available in one location or area.
Accreditation and acknowledgment
Family and Children Services in Central Maryland is accredited by the Accreditation Council (COA), an independent international accrediting body for child and family services and health care organizations. The COA accredits both private organizations and government agencies. FCS is one of nine private social service organizations in Central Maryland that have earned this accreditation.
In 2004 and 2005, United Way respected the FCS for the development of the outcome model to measure the impact of its program.
The Coalition of Geriatric Services (COGS) in Howard County, Maryland, awarded a Family and Children Partnership Service Award in 2004. In Baltimore City, the Commission on Aging and Retirement Education awarded the Barbara Mikulski Caregiver Award to the FCS in 2005.
In 2008, the Family Caregiver Alliance issued Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations at the Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver Legacy Award to the Carroll County FCS Adult Center Adults for Montessori-based training program for clients with mild to moderate dementia.
History
The organization now known as Family and Kids Service in Central Maryland is the result of a combination of its predecessor institutions since 1849.
- 1849: Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor (AICP)
- 1860: Baltimore Children's Assistance Society
- 1876: Name changed to Henry Watson Children's Aid Society (HWCAS)
- 1878: Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty and Authenticity (SPCCI)
- 1881: Charity Organization Society (COS)
- 1881: Shelter for Old and Exhausted People (SAICP)
- 1891: Electrical Sewing Machine Association (ESMS)
- 1910: The Charity Federation (FC) is formed by the merger of the Association for the Improvement of the Conditions of the Poor and Charitable Organizations
- 1919: Name changed to Family Welfare Association (FWA)
- 1942: Family and Society Children formed by the merger of Family Welfare Association and Henry Watson Children's Aid Society
- 1943: The Maryland Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty and Mormality joins the Family and Society of Children
- 1943: Shelter for Aging and Weak Parents who join Families and Society of Children
- 1945: Electrical Sewing Machine Society of Baltimore City Community joins Family and Children's Society
Notes from the FCS predecessor institution can be found in the Special Collection section of Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University (Ms. 360). Most of the content below is taken, by permission, from the archive.
Charitable organizations began to flourish as a major demographic shift took place in American society. As industrialization began to replace the agrarian economy, many residents left their rural communities only to find themselves unprepared for urban life. Subsequent events in the nation's history, including war and Depression, also led to similar de-stabilization in society. The influence of people in the transitional period greatly affects those who do not have adequate economic resources. Poverty, disease, addiction, and desertion leave families displaced, food and fuel.
FCS is one of only nine social service organizations in Central Maryland to be accredited by the Accreditation Council (COA), an independent international accrediting body for child and family services and health care organizations.
Initial reforms saw a correlation between morality and economic conditions, but as work with clients advanced, these assumptions were challenged. As social work theory and practice evolve, new approaches are used to solve welfare problems.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Baltimore Mayor Elijah Stansbury called on delegates from each of the city wards to meet and plan for efficient aid administration. The result was the establishment of the Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor (AICP) in 1849. The AICP is the third organization of its kind in the United States (after New York City and Brooklyn, NY).
In 1881, Daniel Coit Gilman, president of The Johns Hopkins University, helped found the Charity Organization Society (COS) modeled on a similar agency in Boston. The aim is not to provide assistance alone but to incorporate and develop all the charitable resources in society into a single institution. Services to clients may include referrals to other agencies, churches, or individuals, and usually include the concept of "friendly visits" to provide personalized service at clients' homes "to promote health, savings, and character building. Among the members of the COS are Amos Griswald Warner, Mary E. Richmond, Mary Willcox (Brown) Glenn, John M. Glenn, and Dr. Jeffrey R. Brackett, and each of them became nationally recognized for his contribution to the development and social work practices.
Other institutions established during this period provide special services to specific groups: children, women, African-American populations. After several decades it was recognized that combined resources and the allocation of public funds were needed. It started a series of mergers.
AICP and COS play an important role in legislation that creates Juvenile Justice, school compulsory regulations, non-support laws, child labor laws, and licensing of uplifting babies. The two bodies were formally incorporated as Charities (FC) in 1910. In 1911, the Bureau of Justice Assistance was organized as an FC department and remained so until it was separated as an institution in 1929. During this period (ca 1900-1920) the charity fund also became specialized and managed by one institution, the Baltimore Alliance (succeeded by the Community Chest in 1926).
In 1919, the Charitable Federation chose to change its name to the Family Welfare Association. FC's primary goal is to serve the family, including "getting medical care, finding a job, finding missing husbands, overcoming difficulties in the household, instruction in home economics, and strengthening connections with church and family." Prominent people in the Association during this period included Gaylord Lee Clark, Anna D. Ward, Doris Slothower, and Dorothy Pope.
Rehabilitation services were set aside during the early years of Depression as Agencies struggled to help the family and at the same time to make the City and State take some responsibility. Gaylord Lee Clark, president of the FWA in 1929, asked the Governor to appoint the Commission to investigate the social welfare needs of the State. Along with the implementation of the federal program, this leads to the Maryland State Department of Welfare now. When the Baltimore Emergency Assistance Committee was formed in 1933 with a pipeline to federal funds, the FWA moved to continue its function, "promotion of adequate family life through case services."
Social work as a profession had advanced in the 1930s. Social workers begin exploring new ideas about the psychology of human behavior, and community psychiatry services are tried.
In 1940, the Community Fund recommended the merger of four institutions. The Henry Watson Children's Aid Society and FWA joined in 1942 (Annual Report, 1942). Briefly known as the Family Welfare and Henry Watson Children's Aid Society of Baltimore, the more popular name is known as Family and Children's Society. The final merger joined the Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty and Immorality and Shelter for Old and Colored Persons in 1943.
Family and Society Children emerged in 1943 as a multi-service agency. The Society's service for extended families to include medical care, care, housekeeping, marriage counseling, adoption, home discovery, group counseling, and community mental health.
In 1985, the Children's Family and Society joined with Maryland Children's and Family Services and is now known as Family and Children Services at Central Maryland. In 1998, the Family Life Center, in Howard County, joined the FCS.
See also
- Child and family services
References
Further reading
- Agnew, Elizabeth N. (2004). From Charity to Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Creation of American Professions . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN: 0-252-02875-9. OCLCĂƒ, 51848398.
External links
- Official website
- Hopkins Collection Reflects the History of Social Work [2]
- Family Record and Society Society (1849-1977)
- The International Social Workers Federation, the definition of social work [3]
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