United Family Services, Inc
Our mission is to provide comprehensive alternative services to juveniles and their families to prevent lock-up and out of home placement.
Our approach
United Family Services, Inc. (UFS) is a non-profit agency that is devoted to developing programs that prevent the separation of families whenever possible and if separation is necessary, re-unite families as soon as possible. Our goal is to continue to develop programs that will help reduce the number of juvenile commitments to the State Youth Services Center and juveniles placed in foster care in the state of Arkansas, and a national level as well. We realize that this goal is achievable through community-based education, treatment, and aftercare services.
Over the past 32 years, our agency has provided services that have influenced the state’s dependency on institutionalization and out of home placements. We have developed community based treatment programs that allow young people to remain in their home keeping families intact. This ensures that bed space is available for those who are in dire need of secure confinement (violent offenders that requires removal from the community). We intend to continue our mission over the next five years, and advocate for legislation to re-invest funding saved from reduction in youth commitments to institutions back into community based treatment services for families.