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Family & Children Services
The Family House program, together with our childcare center, addresses the needs of both mother and children. The main areas of focus are to increase parenting capabilities, mother child bonding, improve family functioning, and to increase children’s competence. Pregnant women receive prenatal care, life skills counselors and other women in the Family House provide support during birth, and post partum women continue to receive treatment while having centering time with their newborn.
In the Halfway House, where women reside without their children, the Parenting services are less hands on, but focus on building trust, a mother’s love, and teaching children to work toward progress, not perfection. If reunification is possible, we require that mothers attend parenting groups to prepare for the eventuality and offer case management services, referrals and other services for children not in treatment.
- Parenting groups
- Individual parenting sessions
- Informal observation and support of parenting
- Linkages to outside parenting supports
- Mother mentors
Parenting education includes information on child development; positive discipline; how to communicate with one’s children; how to get down on the floor and play; proper nutrition; balancing work, meetings, housework, homework, and other responsibilities; and how one’s own values and experiences impact parenting, among other topics.
- Medical referrals and support
- Behavioral and psychological assessment referrals and services
- Prevention programming
- Kids Groups
- Schooling at local elementary schools, Head Start, tutors and educational assessments
- Specialized Family Center curricula
- Recreational Activities – Boy/Girl Scouts, summer camp, trips to the theater, museums, movies and more
Children’s Prevention Programming
Children’s Group (for ages 6 to 12)
- Create a healthy and safe environment for children to discuss their past experiences of living in an addictive home
- Help children identify positive and negative relationships in their lives
- Promote healthy conflict resolution skills through open communication
- Build self-esteem through group activities and positive experiences in kid’s group
- Help children identify their feelings and explore how their feelings and emotions manifest themselves physically in their bodies.
- Allow children open forum to discuss fears and frustrations related to their parents’ addiction.
- Model healthy, fun alternatives to using drugs such as drug-free parties, field trips, and participation in physical activities
- Encourage children to take personal responsibility in their actions by assigning children weekly tasks, and follow through with positive reinforcement
Family Activity (daily bonding experience for mother and child)
- Daily developmental and educational activites to increase the bonding between mother and child
- To teach mothers how to enjoy their children and have fun with them
- Provides a daily, consistent, structured activity where mother can be fully present to her child/children
Evidence Based Prevention Groups
- Beginning Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug education program geared for children in grades K to 4
- Increase a child’s self-image
- Addresses peer-pressure and bullying
- Promote positive communication and problem solving
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Social Services
The Social Service Department provides comprehensive case management services and life skills counseling. Through a collaborative process of assessment, planning and advocacy, services are identified and provided to assist each woman in achieving her recovery goals.