Children's Service Society of Utah is committed to meeting the growth and developmental needs of children, fostering quality child care, and promoting positive relationships in biological, adoptive, and kinship families without regard to ethnicity, race, income, gender, age, or religion.

Description:
Adoption services include infant, special needs, and international adoptions, birth parent services, home studies, post placement supervision, and a confidential, intermediary search and reunion service.
The Infant Adoption Training Initiative provides free training for community professionals on infant adoption, Utah adoption laws, and information about adoption as a choice for women who are expperieincing an unplanned pregnancy.

Grandfamilies is a relatives-as-parents program that serves children in relative care and their caregivers by providing informational/support groups for caregivers, psycho-educational groups for children, case management, and crisis intervention.

Utah Parents As Teachers (UPAT) provides personal family visits, parent group meetings, child developmental and health screenings, and community resource referrals.

Child Care Resource & Referral ~ Metro serves Salt Lake and Tooele Counties and provides child care recruitment and training for child care providers and free child care referral services for families.

History:
Children's Service Society of Utah is the oldest, non-denominational child welfare and family support agency in Utah.

On October 13, 1884, in the Territory of Utah, a meeting was held to organize a day nursery in Salt Lake City. Thirty-four women were in attendance. The purpose was to provide assistance and relief to destitute children and "to obtain such temporary and permanent homes as may be practicable."

Donations were sought from local merchants for bread, fresh meat, produce, and milk. The parents were charged ten cents daily for each child. Special arrangements were made to board children for $.75 per week.

This was the beginning of Children's Service Society of Utah.

Contact person: Lara Deveraux, Director Of Adoptions, (877) 355-7444, (email)
Office fax number: (801) 355-7453

Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Address:

124 South 400 East, Suite 400 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.cssutah.org

Miscellaneous Information

Services
	Pregnancy Counseling Infant Adoption Special Needs Adoption Post-Adoption Services Parenting Classes
Funding
	United Way of SLC, State contracts, foundations, private funds and donations, client fees
Affliations
	Private, nonprofit corporations, child care referrals, Utah Adoption Council, Utah Children, Utah Nonprofit Association, Child Care Resource and Referral.