Family Support Services

FOCUS (Family Options that are Coordinated, United, Shared) keeps families together and averts the need for child placement with comprehensive, in-home family services and wrap-around collaborative efforts among Rensselaer County Human Services.

With the involvement of a Parent Advocate , FOCUS assists parents in making their households work.





CAST (Community And School Together) in Troy brings services to support children and families to P.S.2,a neighborhood school, during afternoon and evening hours. Vanderheyden also offers respite services to empower and support families and children by maintaining open lines of family communication. It provides an opportunity for families to improve their social skills and increases a child's ability to function within the community.


For more information on family support services, contact our Parent Advocate.

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