Child-Adult Resource Services, Inc., (C.A.R.S.) is a not-for-profit agency dedicated to providing services for children, families and adults who have a variety of support, education, and rehabilitation needs.  C.A.R.S. provides services in eleven counties in West Central Indiana:  Clay, Fountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Morgan, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo and Warren.  C.A.R.S. started providing services to individuals, families and the community in 1969.

C.A.R.S. utilizes both State and Federal funding, in addition to self-generated funding through private enterprise and contributions.  It is most important to note that since 1969, C.A.R.S. has more than doubled its service area, and the number of people it directly serves has increased by more than 400%.  In a similar comparison, C.A.R.S.'s entire 1969 annual budget, is now spent in one month.  All of these comparisons translate into thousands of individual/family lives that have been touched by C.A.R.S.; thousands have benefited from the efforts of hundreds of staff and volunteers.