• Overview
DHS' Community Supportive Services provides family preservation and family support programs, the Child Safety and Permanency Planning process, and several child welfare collaborative efforts.

• Zero to Three
This program is designed to promote strong, nurturing families and to prevent child abuse and neglect for families with children from birth to three years of age.

• Family to Family Initiative
In 2007, Michigan will finalize the implementation of the Family to Family Initiative in its remaining 18 counties. The Family to Family Initiative is part of Michigan's child welfare reform effort to improve the outcomes for children and families by placing an emphasis on safety, stability, permanence and well-being.

• Families First
Families First of Michigan offers families intensive, short-term crisis intervention and family education services in their home for four to six weeks using the Families First of Michigan model.

• Family Group Decision-Making
Family Group Decision-Making is designed to protect children at risk of abuse and neglect in a way that is culturally sensitive and family centered.

• Families Together/Building Solutions
The Families Together/Building Solutions (FTBS) program is based on the belief that many families can enhance their well-being and improve safety of the children with the assistance of long-term in-home services.

• WrapAround
Wraparound is a process based on collaboration and working with community resources. The parent(s) and child(ren) are integral parts of the team and must have ownership in the individualized plan.

• Preventive Services for Families (PSF)
This program is designed to preserve and strengthen family life in order to prevent child abuse and neglect. PSF promotes family strengths, solutions and success by providing voluntary support services, improving parenting, child-caring, homemaking, and money management skills; connecting families to community resources; and reducing family dependency on social services by increasing self-sufficiency.

• Children's Trust Fund Prevention Programs
The Children's Trust Fund currently partners with local prevention councils that serve Michigan's 83 counties.

• Before- and After-School program (BA)
The Family Independence Agency shall allocate, through grants up to $13,000,000 in TANF funds, for programming that provides kindergarten through ninth grade youth with a safe, engaging environment to motivate and inspire learning outside the traditional classroom setting.

• Child Protection: Working Together as Community Partners
Services are directed to at-risk children and families where there is a preponderance of evidence of child abuse or neglect

• Strong Families / Safe Children
Strong Families/Safe Children provides federal funding for on family preservation, family support, time-limited reunification, and adoption promotion and support services.