Services Offered

Serves birth mothers who desire pregnancy counseling and/or assistance in creating an adoption plan. Also serves prospective adoptive families who wish to pursue infant or public adoption. Public adoption includes children in foster homes, Joshua House and other residential programs who are eligible for adoption. Program social workers provide MAPP (Model Approach to Partnership and Parenting) training to prospective adoptive parents.

Provides full-service dependency case management to children who have been victims of abuse or neglect. Hillsborough Kids Care Management utilizes a "wrap-around" philosophy to ensure the safety and well-being of children. The goal is to find safe, permanent homes for children in a timely manner.

Services to children and families include investigations of alleged physical and sexual abuse or serious neglect. The team provides forensic interviews, in-depth psychosocial assessments, medical exams, case consultation and planning for the Department of Children and Families and local law enforcement agencies.

A child-friendly center where child abuse victims and their relatives receive child and family interviews, mental health services, medical services, victim advocacy, and crisis intervention.

Provides full-service case management to children who are victims of abuse or neglect. ThisCommunity Based Care program provides support, referrals and a variety of services to children and families to ensure the safe, permanent placement of children.

Services include recruitment, training, licensing and support to foster families. Foster parents provide guidance, nurturing and stable parenting to children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned and, as a reult, removed from their homes.

An emergency residential shelter providing group care and shelter services for up to 12 girls ages 13-17 who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. Staffed by caring workers who provide 24-hour awake supervision, Hansen Center is located on a five-acre campus and includes therapy, case management, behavioral interventions and recreational activities.

An emergency residential shelter providing group care and shelter services for 60 children ages 6-17 who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. Staffed by caring workers who provide 24-hour awake supervision, Joshua House is located on an 11-acre campus comprised of several ranch-style homes and includes therapy, case management, behavioral interventions and recreational activities.

Do you have what it takes to be a role M.O.D.E.L.?

More than 11,000 children in the Tampa Bay area have at least one parent currently incarcerated in state or federal prision.

Children's Home Society of Florida's Mentors Opening Doors and Enriching Lives Program (M.O.D.E.L.) is a one-to-one, community-based mentoring program providing support to children who have a parent incarcerted in state or federal prison. Youth ages 4-18 are matched with mentors who guide and help them develop to their fullest potential. The mentor relationships last at least one year.

For more information on becoming a mentor e-mail us or call 813-740-4266 ext. 223.

Provides a neutral and safe setting for court-ordered supervised visitation between children in the custody of the state and their families.