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Family and Community Services Department Budget Highlights

family services The Family and Community Services Department offers a range of services designed to strengthen families, improve neighborhoods, and enhance the quality of life for community residents, particularly for low and moderate-income individuals and families.

The services offered by the Department directly or by contract with nonprofit providers include: social services, health care, child care, early childhood education, before and after school care, youth services, therapeutic recreation, child nutrition, gang intervention and prevention, substance abuse treatment and prevention, family service centers, community recreation centers, public housing, rent assistance, affordable housing development, fair housing, and human/civil rights education and enforcement. Services are incorporated within program strategies to allow for performance measures and to align specifically to City Goals and Desired Community Conditions.

Family and Community Services Department Budget Highlights

Mission

To improve the quality, delivery, and effectiveness of health, social, recreational, nutritional, educational, housing, and other human service programs for residents of the Albuquerque metropolitan area; to increase the available services through resource sharing and coordination; and to improve the quality of life for low and moderate income residents.