Department of Family Services

Background

Our Family Services Field Offices provide specialized human services to children, adults, and elderly whom are experiencing abuse, neglect or crisis and to help maintain healthy and stable families on the Navajo Nation. In addition, we provide quality services to individuals and households experiencing temporary financial hardship in meeting their short term basic needs, immediate emergency and home energy needs.

Goals

• provide quality casework services that address each person’s cultural needs,
• explain information to the consumer in the language the consumer is most familiar and;
• provide services in the consumers’ own community.
• Use wrap around method of intervention and the system of care model to deliver services to individual and families.
• assist individual and households to become self-sufficient through education of financial management, home energy saving and referral to programs that would assist the families in overcoming financial hardship.
• administer services in accordance with all applicable Navajo, Federal and State laws, rules, regulations and policies.