The Fort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter provides shelter & care, in a safe & structured home-like environment to foster care children, ages 6 & older, who have been removed from their home due to neglect and/or abuse. Each child served by the Children's Emergency Shelter is a victim & in emergency need of care. In addition to the CES home, the CES lifeskills program, GetREAL24 provides services to foster youth 18 & older who have aged out of foster care.