Child Welfare Services
Family Connections
Family Connections is a community-focused program designed to support families in their homes, ensuring the physical, emotional, and developmental needs of their children are met. This evidence-based initiative incorporates trauma-informed care, problem-solving strategies and an empowerment approach. Key components of the program include:
- Addressing basic and concrete needs
- Developing outcome-driven service plans
- Implementing change-focused interventions
Nurturing Parenting
Nurturing Parenting is a community-based, family-centered and trauma-informed program designed to strengthen parenting skills. The program helps parents develop nurturing practices and improve their understanding of child development, including setting appropriate expectations, fostering empathy for children’s needs, clarifying parent-child roles, utilizing non-violent discipline and supporting healthy child independence and empowerment. Core components of the program include:
- Comprehensive assessment
- Development of a personalized Family Nurturing Plan
- Parenting sessions featuring education and preparation of nurturing activities
- Observation of parent-child nurturing activities
- Debriefing sessions with parents following observations
Triple P
Triple P, which stands for Positive Parenting Program, empowers parents with the skills to raise confident, healthy children and teenagers while building strong family relationships. This evidence-based program helps parents effectively manage misbehavior, prevent parenting challenges before they arise and create a positive home environment.
Triple P can be delivered to individual families or in group settings. Backed by decades of international research, the program has been proven to prevent and address behavioral, emotional and developmental challenges in children by enhancing parents’ knowledge, skills and confidence. Program goals include:
- Strengthening communication around parenting challenges
- Building competence and confidence in parenting skills
- Reducing maladaptive attributions for children’s behavior
- Setting realistic expectations for children
- Encouraging self-regulation
For more information, please call 602-257-9314.
