Mission: Improving the quality of life in Michigan by providing services to vulnerable children and adults that will strengthen the community and enable families and individuals to move toward independence.
Vision: Compassion. Protection. Independence.

Description:
The Department of Human Services (DHS) is Michigan's Public Assistance, Child and Family welfare agency with over 100 county department human service offices around the state. Local offices administer applications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families(Family Independence Program), Food Assistance (Food Assistance Program), State Emergency Relief, and Child Day Care Assistance. The agency administers the child support collection and client welfare fraud investigation programs. In addition, the agency provides other services to children, adults and families in the state.
Services to adults include protective services, adult placement services, home help services and assistance with health, housing, transportation and educational needs.
Family services include referral for employment and training, independent living services providing housing assistance, family planning, counseling, health-related services, volunteer services, refugee assistance, foster family care, transitional services for youth exiting out of foster care, child day care, migrant services, Native American services, and domestic violence prevention and treatment programs. These services are provided to help maintain and strengthen family life and help families become self-sufficient.
A wide range of service programs is available for families and children. They include protective and preventive services for children who are neglected, abused or exploited. The agency also provides a wide range of institutional and non-institutional social services for the care, training, and treatment of neglected and delinquent children committed as state wards and temporary court wards. Such services include casework and counseling, adoption, foster care, and the operation of centers for institutional residential care and group homes.
The Department of Human Services also administers a number of special and autonomous entities including the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board and the Children's Trust Fund.

Contact person: Karen Urquhart, Program Coordinator, (586) 412-6114, (email)

Address:

19700 Hall Rd. Suite A Clinton Township, MI 48038 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.michigan.gov/dhs

Directions:

On the south side of Hall Rd. 1/4 mile east of Romeo Plank

Last updated on June 6, 2013