Manatee Childrens Services Incorporated

Residential services are comprised of an emergency shelter and 3 group homes. The program accomplished 100% of annual goal to provide safe shelter to abused children to over 100 children in 4 residential settings. All homes meet the needs of children suffering from abuse, neglect, and abandonment. The emergency shelter, includes 24 hour awake staff that serves children ages 6-17 temporarily until a stable placement is found for them. Group homes serve children ages 11-17 on a long-term basis for youth that often have behavior issues.

The child protection team provides alleged child victims of abuse with specialized, non leading interviews and expert court testimony. A trained child abuse medical provider provides medical exams to collect physical evidence of abuse as well as expert testimony.