The mission of Bauer Family Resources is "Creating brighter tomorrows by strengthening children and families today."

Family Services , Human Services

See schedule o head start and early head start are federally funded programs that offer free pre-school and child care services to families living at or below the federal poverty guidelines. Special consideration is given to children with disabilities; living in foster care, homeless, or receiving public assistance. Services include case managers to support families be successful. Services include pregnant women's program, homebased early head start services, centered based early head start classrooms and head start preschool classrooms. In 2014 early head start served 174 children and families (including pregnant women and home based families). The head start program served 317 families. Of these 6% were foster children, 1% were homeless and 6% were receiving public assistance. The organization received 16,282 in in-kind support from the community in 2014. see schedule o family centered services includes programs and services funded by state contracts and grants. In bauer's counseling division, master's level therapists and bachelor's level case managers provide services to families involved with the child welfare system. Services, provided in-home, including counseling, case management, supervised visitation and support for fathers. In 2014 295 families participated in counseling division services. Of these, 160 had their cases successfully closed during the calendar year. Homebuilders, a short-term, intensive case management program for families with involvement with child welfare or juvenile probation, provided services to 186 individuals in 2014 for a total of 1,022 units of service. Community partners is a child abuse prevention program that offers case management services to families with children. In addition to case management, the program can meet concrete needs of families. In 2014 more than 17,069 adults and children were impacted by community partners. The program paid more than 117,000 for concrete needs (utilities, buying beds, etc. ) and counseling fees for participants. Voca provides advocacy services to victims of crime. In 2014, 457 individuals were reached and 2,105 units of services were provided. youth and family services include the remainder of the organization's programs and in 2014 included youth development and teen court. A food pantry was offered in partnership with a local church. During 2014, youth development offered both after school and summer programming. There were 524 youth who were members of the youth development program, receiving more than 50,000 units of service throughout the year. Meals and snacks were provided to participants during all programs. Services include homework help, stem and art activities, and recreation. A reading program and basketball program also is available to participants. The summer includes weekly field trips. The food pantry, operated in partnership with church women united, served 128,556 meals to 17,306 individuals in 2014.

children and families.