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Social Services Administration



Our mission is to support and enable local departments of social services, in cooperation with community partners, to employ strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect, protect vulnerable children, support family stability and promote customer independence.


Our programs are State supervised and State administered. All services are provided through twenty-four local departments of social services in each county and in Baltimore City. Click here for local departments.

To find out more information on the programs we offer, select from the program hyperlinks to the left.


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This Page Last Revised on August 4, 2008