![[photo, Former site of Frederick County Citizen Services Division, 520 North Market St., Frederick, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/36loc/fr/images/1198-1-1300b.jpg)
The Citizens Services Division oversees the Child Advocacy Center, Family Parnership, the Local Management Board, and the Scott Key Center, as well as four departments: Aging; Housing and Community Development; Human Relations; and Workforce Services.
In Frederick County, the Local Management Board is known as the Office for Children and Families. The Board coordinates a system of local services for Frederick County children, youth, and families (Code Human Services Article, secs. 8-301 through 8-305). Health, education, social and justice services are provided to young people who may be moved from their home because of abuse, neglect, delinquency, or special needs. In the community, the Board coordinates services so that children, placed in programs out-of-state, may be helped closer to home.
SCOTT KEY CENTER
For persons with developmental disabilities, the Scott Key Center provides day habilitation, vocational services, supported employment, and family individual support services.
Social service and public assistance programs in Frederick County are the responsibility of the Department of Social Services. The Director of the Department administers these programs subject to the supervision, direction, and control of the Social Services Administration, and the Family Investment Administration.
With the approval of the Secretary of Human Services and the advice of the Frederick County Social Services Board, the County Executive with County Council consent appoints the Director (Code Human Services Article, secs. 3-101 through 3-303).
On a regular schedule, the Board reviews each guardianship that a public agency holds, and makes recommendations on whether to continue, modify, or end the guardianship.
The Board's eleven members are appointed to three-year terms by the County Executive with County Council consent (Code Family Law Article, secs. 14-401 through 14-404).
CITIZEN REVIEW BOARD FOR CHILDREN
The Citizen Review Board for Children reviews cases of children in foster care to evaluate what progress has been made towards their permanent placement. Cases are reviewed in accordance with priorities established by the Frederick County Department of Social Services and the State Citizens Review Board for Children and contained in a memorandum of agreement. For each child reviewed, a recommendation is sent to the County Department of Social Services and the local juvenile court. With concurrence of the Social Services Administration, the State Board may establish categories of foster children for whom a satisfactory permanent arrangement has been made and who may be exempt from local review.
Each local review board has seven members. They are appointed by the Governor to four-year terms (Code Family Law Article, secs. 5-540 through 5-547)
SOCIAL SERVICES BOARD
Fourteen members constitute the Board. Thirteen are appointed by the County Executive with County Council consent to three-year terms. One member representing the County Council serves ex officio (Code Human Services Article, secs. 3-501 through 3-503).
In March 1966, the Scott Key Center began operations as a private center for individuals with disabilities. When responsibility for children with disabilities transferred to the Board of Education in 1978, the Center became an adult developmental center (P.L. 94-142). Thereafter, the Center's Board of Directors, in December 1979, entered into an agreement with the Board of County Commissioners to make the Center a County agency under the Health Department. Formerly under the Health Services Division, the Center became part of the Citizens Services Division in 2015.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
When the Department of Social Services started as the Department of Public Welfare in 1939, the Welfare Board was the local administrative agency for public assistance (Chapter 99, Acts of 1939). The Department of Public Welfare assumed welfare responsibilities from the Welfare Board in 1967, and was renamed the Department of Social Services in 1968 (Chapter 148, Acts of 1967; Chapter 702, Acts of 1968).
![[photo, Dept. of Social Services, 100 East All Saints St., Frederick, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/36loc/fr/images/1198-1-449.jpg)
The Department of Social Services formerly was in the Governor William Donald Schaefer Government Service Center at 100 East All Saints Street in Frederick. On July 31, 2017, the Department opened its new offices two miles away at 1888 North Market Street, Frederick.
Department of Social Services, former site at Governor William Donald Schaefer Government Service Center, 100 East All Saints St., Frederick, Maryland, July 2003. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
ADULT PUBLIC GUARDIANSHIP REVIEW BOARD
The Adult Public Guardianship Review Board was authorized by State statute in 1984 (Chapter 552, Acts of 1984), and established by County Resolution in 1985 (Resolution 85-03).
In 1978, the Citizen Review Board for Children originated as the Foster Care Review Board (Chapter 980, Acts of 1978). The Board reformed under its present name in 1999 (Chapter 355, Acts of 1999).
Until the Great Depression, public assistance and welfare functions of the Social Services Board were administered by the Board of County Commissioners. Under the Board of State Aid and Charities, the Welfare Board assumed those duties in 1933 and became the local agency to direct public relief (Chapter 222, Acts of 1933). The Board also began to certify eligible persons for employment in the federal Works Progress Administration, the Public Works Administration, and the Civilian Conservation Corps (Chapter 586, Acts of 1935). When the State Department of Public Welfare replaced the Board of State Aid and Charities in 1939, the Welfare Board was overseen by the State Department (Chapter 99, Acts of 1939). The Board reformed in 1967 with many of its administrative duties transferred to the County Department of Public Welfare (Chapter 148, Acts of 1967). In 1968, the Board was renamed as the Social Services Board under the Frederick County Department of Social Services (Chapter 148, Acts of 1967; Chapter 702, Acts of 1968).
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