Causes: Adoption, Children & Youth, Family Counseling, Family Services, Financial Counseling, Human Services

Mission: The mission of The Village Family Service Center is to improve the quality of life through services designed to strengthen individuals, families and organizations.

Geographic areas served: North Dakota and Minnesota

Programs: Counseling: the village provides counseling services to individuals, families and couples. In addition to traditional counseling, the village provides play therapy and attachment therapy for traumatized children, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr) treatment for adult incest survivors, and inter-agency cooperative effort for the treatment of sexual abusers and their family members, and treatment for alcoholism and other drug dependency. Our professional counselors also provide groups and classes for depression and anxiety, anger management, children and divorce, parent education, and social skills for children. In addition to outpatient counseling, the village provides family group decision making (fgdm) and intensive in-home family based services (fbs). Fgdm brings together the child, parents, extended family, caregivers and service providers in order to resolve a child's safety and wellbeing issues. Fbs provides intensive services, in a family home, to prevent out-of-home placement of a child. The village also provides financial counseling services to include a debt management program, foreclosure counseling, bankruptcy counseling and education and housing programs.

village business institute (vbi): vbi is designed to provide worksite-based programs and products consistent with the purpose, resources and abilities of the village. Vbi services include employee assistance programs, human resource consultation, executive coaching, career transition, organizational consulting, crisis planning and management and workplace mediation.

nokomis child care centers: nokomis has two centers in fargo and plays a unique role in the community. While providing traditional child care in a nurturing, safe, and stimulating environment for families able to pay for the care, the program also fills a need for families with special needs, both financial and emotional. The daycare services were discontinued in may 2017.