Family Support Center of the Uintah Basin

Meet the Director

Pam Bird Execute Director, Family Support Center of the Uintah Basin Pam was born and raised on a farm near the Ute Reservation in the Uintah Basin, she attended elementary and Jr. High in Ft. Duchesne Utah. Because of her upbringing she is knowledgeable of differing views and cultures of the Uintah Basin population. She uses this knowledge to help better her community through her work. She has worked extensively in the social work field as Director for Northeastern Services for 10 years prior to starting her career at the Family Support Center. Pam has worked for FSC UB since 2000. Holding every position from Nursery Staff, Parent Educator, Staff Trainer, Administrative Assistant and now Executive Director. She is also an active part of the local Prevention Advisory Coalition. She is passionate about her work and the mission of the Family Support Center.  

Pam and her husband, Tracy, have three adult children, ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren. In her spare time Pam enjoys spending time with her Family, reading, watching cooking show, crocheting, camping, and hunting.

History & Impact

The Family Support Center of the Uintah Basin has been open since April 1989. The center was originally established in a house on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in a small area called Independence. Since that time, there have been a couple of building changes, but we are currently located in a comfortable house in Roosevelt, UT, that has had some additions and remodeling to better house the crisis/respite nursery.  

Mission: Support and Strengthen Children and Families  

Vision: To be well-known for individualized encouragement and support for all families

This center has provided many different services to families in the tri-county area for over 27 years. There have been several different parenting classes, a food pantry, supervised visits with non-custodial parents, marriage counseling, tobacco cessation classes, pick up-drop off center for children going on visitation with non-custodial parent, resource referrals, speaker’s bureau, lending library, information dispersal, inter-agency collaboration and cooperation, individual therapy, babysitting classes, teen parenting for pregnant teens, and community participation in local events. We currently offer our crisis respite nursery, Active Parenting classes which consist of 5 different classes; Birth to Five, NOW 5-12, Teen, Cooperative Parenting, and Kids with Incredible Potential. We are also training a new parent educator to offer online classes.  

One of the main goals we are working on is to establish a standards team comprised of current staff that has taken the Quality of Standards Training. This team will be going through self-evaluation to determine areas that we can improve on. munity. Once this team is established, the goal is to form a Parent Advisory Committee consisting of parents in the community. The Standards Team and Parent Advisory Committee will collaborate to ensure the Family Support Center is providing quality care with the entire communities’ needs in mind. The population we serve is the Uintah, Duchesne, and Dagget counties. These are rural areas comprised of the Ute Indian Tribe Reservation, oil and gas industry, and tourist areas.