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Mission: Family Service & Guidance Center provides quality behavioral healthcare for children and families.
FSGC is a nonprofit community mental health center that specializes in meeting the unique needs of children up to 18 years old. We provide direct clinical services, prevention education and outreach to over 10,000 children, teens and families from more than 30 Kansas counties every year. Today, FSGC is an innovator and recognized leader in children's mental healthcare services, employing 250 staff members on a centralized, three-building campus and a separate Crisis Resolution Program building.
FSGC has been changing lives of children in Shawnee County and across Northeast Kansas for the better since 1904. The agency was originally established to aid Topeka flood victims. The organization changed its focus from basic welfare needs to that of a social service agency in the 1940s. The 1950s saw FSGC focus on mental healthcare services, and in 1984, FSGC became committed itself exclusively to serving children and families.
Family Service & Guidance Center offers a broad range of services, including:
- Outpatient individual, group and family therapy.
- Child and adolescent psychiatry.
- An anxiety treatment program, one of just two in the state of Kansas.
- Therapeutic groups for preschool-age children with severe emotional and behavioral challenges.
- Community-based services, including case management.
- Crisis services available 24/7/365.
- Outpatient substance use disorder assessment and treatment.
- Autism testing.
- The Youth Development Program for school-age children and teens.
- Screenings to determine the need for in-patient hospitalization.
- Transitions to Adulthood Program for young adults with mental health challenges.
- The Happy Bear sexual and physical abuse prevention program.
