Siskiyou County Human Services

Siskiyou County Human Services is a U.S. local government entity that provides social services to residents of Siskiyou County, California. Through federal grant sub-awards, Siskiyou County Human Services administers programs related to foster care, adoption, food assistance, child welfare, adult protective services, and transitional services for former foster youth.

Specifically, Siskiyou County Human Services has received federal funds to provide supplemental nutrition assistance services, outreach for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), emergency food assistance, foster care maintenance payments, adoption assistance, subsidized guardianship assistance, family preservation and reunification services, child welfare case management services, adult protective services investigations, transitional housing and support services for former foster youth, and job training/employment search assistance for SNAP recipients. The prime grantees for these federal funds have been the California Department of Social Services and select California food banks. The federal grant programs supporting this work have included the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, and Guardianship Assistance Programs, the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program (PSSF), the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), and the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).