Mission

*Mission/History*
Mission
	Our mission is to strengthen individuals and enhance families by providing an array of prevention, education, counseling, and therapy services to members of the extended Stateline Community
A Brief History of our Agency
	This year marks the 70th anniversary of service to the Stateline Community and provides a clear vantage point from which to survey the past years of service and peer into the future. In 1934, Ms. Borghid Boe was hired as the director of the Welfare Committee of the Visiting Nurse Association. The director of the agency for more than twenty years she would leave a legacy of excellences in social service delivery. The agency, then known as the Family Welfare Association of Beloit, was incorporated in 1935 with an annual budget of $5,764. Services were provided at the Pleasant Street Community Center. In 1947, the agency changed its name to Family Service Association of Beloit to emphasize its role in providing services "rather than relief". The agency provided counseling specific to economic relief issues, "draft investigations," milk to school children, and child welfare services. The 1950's saw Family Services providing counseling for family relationships as well as "individual personality adjustments," a foster care program, and financial assistance in the from of milk for children, "food and fuel," clothing and medical cost reimbursements. Services provided in the 1960's and 1970's included counseling to families, (entailing a focus on "unwed mothers") and special services such as homemaker classes, traveler's aid, and recreational camp programs. Family Services developed an Employee Assistance Component for local employers in the 1980's. Other services included a "Just Say No!" drug abuse prevention program to supplement the agency's mainstay counseling program. During the 1990's, the agency continued to expand its out-patient mental health services and EAP contracts while bringing "on board" the Tobacco Free Kids program to promote non-tobacco use among youth.
And within the past several years
	.Family Services developed the Sexual Assault Recovery Program to assist and advocate for victims. The county-wide program was subsequently invited to expand services to Green County. Through the generous support of the Beloit Foundation, Mercy Health System, Ken and Diane Hendricks, and the Stateline Community Foundation, the agency acquired and renovated the Beloit Domestic Violence Center shelter. The agency contracted to provide scattered-site transitional living services to survivors of domestic violence. The Consumer Credit Counseling Service Program processed annually over $2,000,000 of local consumer debt and partnered with community social service providers to offer individual financial counseling. Family Services acquired (through the generous support of John Patch and the City of Beloit) the old domestic violence shelter building. Klobucar Construction Company, Inc. and numerous other benefactors supported its renovation. Renamed the Kathy Reynolds House, the facility hosts the "My Sister's Place" initiative, a transitional living project for survivors of domestic violence. The agency pursued development of an advocacy program for abused and neglected children in the Rock County juvenile court system. Family Services' employs over 25 individuals with an annual agency budget to exceed $1,100,000.