The Child and Family Work section of Helsinki Deaconess Institute offers non-institutional and foster care in the area of child protection. These units are located in Pitäjänmäki (Helsinki) and Pellas (Espoo).

Foster care services include small children's reception, periodic and rehabilitating intensive care, longer-term foster care, and continued treatment, and detoxification treatment and rehabilitation of young people showing symptoms of the use of intoxicating substances.

Family work is divided into family rehabilitation (whole-family care), which means that the families live in the Deaconess Institute's housing facilities, and non-institutional family work, which means that the service function is provided at the client's home. Family work aims at strengthened family's own resources and finding new ways of coping with various life situations.

Intensive care is where child protection and psychiatric care converge. The objective is to bring about a comprehensive change in the situation involving the child and the child's family. Continued treatment means continuing with the rehabilitating process.

Treatment targeting on young people involved in intoxicant abuse is a combination of expertise in child protection, intoxicant medicine, and psychiatry.

The need for this service form comes mainly from municipalities in the metropolitan area, and it is provided based on outsourcing service agreements. Some services are such that the clients benefiting also include persons from other parts of the country with their municipality of residence bearing the costs.