Joyce Hossian

Family Outreach Center, founded in 1979, is a private and nonprofit agency. The agency offers social programs for the underserved and disenfranchised people. It provides counseling and support services to children, youth, adults, and families in the areas of mental health, family intervention, prevention and education, and substance abuse assessment and treatment. Its outreach counseling program, includes individual therapy, family therapy, psychiatric evaluation and treatment, education classes, referral to self-help groups and supportive services. The organization offers various education programs, including confident parenting, family basics and juvenile court parent workshop. It gets funds from Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Network of West Michigan, Kent County Family Independence Agency and the Heart of West Michigan United Way. Family Outreach Center is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Founded in 1887, D. A. Blodgett for Children is a foster care and adoption agency located in Grand Rapids, Mich. It provides various services to orphan, homeless, sick and disabled children. The agency is a member of the Federation of Social Agencies. It runs several programs, such as parent therapist and big brother and big sister programs. The agency has a short-term foster group home for juvenile detention. It also offers the sisters-in-support program to assist adolescent mothers and the family reunification project to support permanency planning and family preservation. D. A. Blodgett for Children has won the Best Foster Care Agency Performance Award and the Best Agency Adoption Performance Award. The agency is approved by the Council On Accreditation of Services for Families and Children.