Community Health and Counseling Services (CHCS)
Community Health and Counseling Services
Provides treatment foster care, mental health, behavioral health, and crisis services in eastern and northern Maine. Recruits and trains professional treatment foster parents to help children heal from trauma of past abuse and neglect.
Who can use this?
Adults interested in becoming treatment foster parents can contact CHCS to learn about requirements. Youth are placed through the Maine DHHS child welfare system.
About this resource
Community Health and Counseling Services (CHCS) is a major behavioral health provider in eastern and northern Maine. Their treatment foster care program recruits and trains professional foster parents to care for children with complex needs who are in DHHS custody. CHCS provides training, ongoing support, and compensation designed for their professional treatment foster parents, helping children heal from the trauma of past abuse and neglect.
Services offered
- Treatment foster care
- Foster parent recruitment and training
- Mental health services
- Behavioral health services
- Crisis services
- Adult residential services