Since its founding in 1891, Child & Family Services (C&FS) has served over 250,000 people with a broad array of services for children, families and adults of all ages. From 1891 to 1971, the programming of C&FS (then known as the Michigan Children’s Aid Society) was exclusively in the sphere of the well-being of children (adoption, foster care, pregnancy, counseling, residential treatment of adolescent girls). A 1971 merger with the Berrien County Family Counseling Service (family counseling, homemaker service) and the new name of Child & Family Services began a trend of program diversification that has continued to the present.