Health & Human Services
Franklin County’s Human Services Administration oversees a variety of programs and services that pertain to the county’s youngest residents to its oldest and other groups in between.
The Area Agency on Aging, Children and Youth Service, Drug and Alcohol, Veterans Affairs, Mental Health, Intellectual Developmental Disabilities and Early Intervention are just some of the departments that fall under Franklin County’s Human Services umbrella.
The field of human services is broadly defined, uniquely approaching the objective of meeting human needs through an interdisciplinary knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining a commitment to improving the overall quality of life of service populations. The human services profession is one which promotes improved service delivery systems by addressing not only the quality of direct services, but also by seeking to improve accessibility, accountability and coordination among professionals and agencies in service delivery.
