Apex Community Services is dedicated to supporting children and families through advocacy, education, and community engagement, fostering a safe and nurturing environment for their success.

Our History

Apex Family Care was founded in 1999 as a treatment foster care agency. From the beginning, the organization has remained responsive to the evolving needs of families in our community—expanding, adapting, and launching new services to meet gaps in the system.

In 2015, Apex Family Care created the Integrated Family Care (IFC) program as a response to a troubling pattern: families doing everything right—finding employment, following case plans, showing up for their children—yet still unable to reunify because of poverty or housing instability. IFC was designed to fill that gap by offering short-term housing and wraparound support to families at risk of separation, helping stabilize them before foster care became necessary.

As the program grew, it became clear that the vision for IFC went beyond the traditional child welfare framework. Founders Trisha Behrens and Marlon Brewer believed deeply that this kind of prevention should be rooted in the community—not dependent on state systems, but driven by neighbors, mentors, and local partnerships. In 2023, they launched Apex Community Services as a sister organization to carry this vision forward.

Apex Community Services was created to give the community a place at the table—to empower everyday people to play an active role in keeping families together. Today, we operate the IFC program and the Community Closet, providing hands-on, relationship-based support to families in crisis. By meeting families where they are and walking alongside them, we help prevent removals, break cycles of poverty, and protect the most powerful resource a child has: their family.