Program Focuses on Child Welfare

When children are involved in the courts or human services systems, the process can get complicated. Addressing the needs of the child or children and of the parents involved becomes a balancing act of needs and related responses.

Guardian Light Family Services (GLFS) is designed to families and children. GLFS works with the courts and the Department of Health and Human Services. Among the services offered by GLFS, staff work with families in the child welfare system. Their primary goal, according to Probation and Foster Care Supervisor Melissa Misegadis, is to keep the family unit in the same...