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City Departments

Human Services

Older Adult Services

A licensed and certified social worker specializing in services for older adults is available through the Human Services Department to provide free professional assistance, supportive counseling, assessment, and consultation.

Counseling can be provided for older adults and their family members who might be dealing with long-term care issues and planning, issues of loss and grief, stress, depression, and general problems connected with aging and daily living.

Individual assessment and counseling as well as group counseling on issues affecting older adults is available to residents of the City of Southfield. Programs, services, and referrals are also available for adults who have physical challenges.

For further information, or to make an appointment to meet with the Older Adult Social Worker, please call Judith Ventura at (248) 796-4547.

 

Did You Know?

  • Effective March 2009, the Human Services Department has temporarily relocated to the Parks & Recreation Building (lower level with Emergency Management) at 26000 Evergreen Road at Civic Center Drive.
  • Southfield Community Foundation is sponsoring the 4th Annual Women's Fund Tea on April 25, 2010 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. at Plum Hollow Country Club. Tickets are $35 (proceeds to benefit victims of domestic violence) - for more information, contact (248) 327-6125.
  • Free tax prepartion for low-income Southfield individuals and families from Feb. 3 through April 7.
  • The City of Southfield is home to more than 9,000 businesses and over 80 “Fortune 500” companies.
  • The City of Southfield is Michigan’s undisputed business center – with more office space than the central business districts of Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis or Kansas City.
  • Southfield is an international city bustling with people from a rich array of cultural, racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds, including large Armenian, African-American, Jewish, Chaldean and Russian populations.