Mission Statement: Family Care Network's mission is to promote wholesome family life through services that emphasize personal growth and family empowerment, believing that strong families build strong communities.

Vision Statement: Family Care Network's vision is to be recognized as the region's pacesetting provider of home-based services that enable people to avoid the breakup of their home and family life and to strengthen their capacity to deal independently with the future.

History: In 1962, the United Way Community Services charged a Blue Ribbon committee to investigate the need for a service organization that would "team professional and paraprofessional staff together to help families stay together in times of stress, would prevent unnecessary institutional placement, and would promote positive home life with services provided in the home". Family Care Network, a minority corporation, was established in 1965 with funding from United Way Community Services and the City of Detroit Poverty Program, serving Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. Throughout our 40-year history, Family Care Network utilized paraprofessionals and social workers to keep families together and prevent out-of-home placement of children and seniors. We addressed problems such as homelessness, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, family reunification and health needs of seniors. Family Care Network has a history of collaborating with other agencies to address the needs of the community. We were partners with the Michigan Department of Social Services in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Our partnerships continued to grow, so that we now provide a continuum of prevention and protective services including our core teaching home-maker service, parenting education and groups, intensive child placement prevention, stabilization of homeless families, therapeutic counseling and home health care to seniors - all programs home and community based. A major initiative in the past 25 years has been our work with seniors. As many extended families no longer lived closely together and no one was available to provide help at home to seniors, we developed programs to provide homemaking, personal care, skilled care, education and respite to seniors. In everything we do, it is our vision to provide services that enable people to avoid the break up of their home and family life and to strengthen their capacity to deal independently with the future. Today, as the cost of out-of-home placement continues to spiral, we are able to provide quality multi-disciplinary support services to high-risk families. We are the most experienced home-based social service agency in Michigan and our programs continue to bring hope and healing to many.

Core Values: Family Care Network is characterized by, and committed to, integrity, compassion and respect . These three core values are prominent in our employees and in our work. We understand these values to be the desire for our organization, as well as the personal desires of the employees, in providing services. We share these core values with our staff, customers, funding sources and the community.