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About
Us:
How can we help you?
How
can
we help you?
We offer families a wide range of options to meet their needs -- from
telephone counseling, information, and referral to home visiting,
support groups, and psychological counseling. Many services are
available in the privacy of your own home. Others are available at your
choice of convenient locations. Child care is often provided.
Family
Resources works to
ensure that all our services are accessible to families that may not
speak English fluently, offering emotional and social support,
counseling, help with life skills, coaching in parenting skills, and
advocacy in dealing with cultural and language challenges.
We
provide the following
services:
Child Abuse Prevention
- The Parenting WARMLINE at
Family Resources is a free
telephone service offering
confidential information, referral, and support for any non-medical
parenting question.
- Parenting support groups
are available in many Allegheny County neighborhoods where parents and
other caregivers can get information and meet other parents to share
concerns and experiences.
- Peer support groups in
an informal setting for parents of
young children,
school-age
children, and teenagers, groups for teen parents and grandparents
raising children provide an
opportunity for group members to
give and receive support; many ongoing groups meet weekly.
- The Nurturing Course
is a parent education series that teaches parents how to cope more
effectively with the challenges of raising children.
- Home visits
help
new parents to help with the transition to parenthood.
- The Parent-Teen Conflict
Program provides support for
parents, pre-teens, and teens
including parent education, support groups, and referral to additional
programs depending on the needs of the family.
- The Family Retreat Center
offers retreats for families and community groups to strengthen family
and neighborhood connections.
- At 1801 Centre Avenue,
The
Hill District Center for Nurturing Families
provides parent
education, parent support, family recreation, case management,
advocacy, and referral, with an emphasis on families with children ages
birth through five. Programs are designed and led by Family Support
Center members.
- High Fidelity Wraparound
(HFW), in partnership with Allegheny County Joint Planning Teams (JPT).
High Fidelity Wraparound is a process used to recognize the complex
needs of children and youth (0-21) with a mental health diagnosis and
their families who are involved with several service systems.
Wraparound is a way to improve the lives of children with complex
behavioral needs and their families. The integration process of
wraparound develops an individualized plan of care so that children and
youth grow up in their homes and communities.
Beverly
Jewel Wall Lovelace
Children's Program
- The Beverly Jewel Wall
Lovelace Children's Program (BJWL)
promotes children's safety
and well-being within their communities. BJWL supports families taking
care of their children year-round; after-school and summer activities
including social, emotional, academic, recreational and other resources
for families. BJWL strengthens community by engaging families and
enhancing the skills and knowledge in the community to increase the
safety of children. BJWL is located in 19 public housing communities --
serving children ages 5-18 -- throughout Pittsburgh and Allegheny
County.
Treatment
Services
- Outpatient Psychotherapy
Services include individual,
family, group, couples, and play
therapy -- and collateral sessions -- as well as therapy for adults who
experienced abuse and/or other forms of family violence as children;
treatment services for non-abusing partners; psychiatric evaluation.
- The Parent-Teen Conflict
Program offers crisis
intervention, assessment, in-home
counseling, advocacy, and problem solving and coping strategies to help
parents and teens or pre-teens manage conflict.
- Family-Based Mental Health
Services provide intensive,
team-delivered, and individualized
mental health services in the home for families with a child who is at
risk for out-of-home placement. Services include family and individual
therapy, crisis intervention, case management and family support
services.
- Family-Focused/Solution-Based
Services provide crisis
intervention, assessment, individual and
family therapy, resource coordination/case management, and support and
education about mental health issues for children, adolescents, and
adults to help family members cope and improve their relationships.
- Crisis Intervention
Services are offered for
families whose children are at risk for
being placed outside the home because of physical or emotional abuse,
neglect, or disclosure of sexual abuse; services include
support/education for families working toward reunification.
- The Therapeutic Parents'
and Children's Center
provides therapeutic preschool services
for children with developmental delay and/or emotional disturbance who
may have experienced physical or sexual abuse or severe neglect, or who
may have witnessed family violence. Supportive services are provided to
parents and caregivers.
Parent
Education and Training
- Professional
Conferences and
Consultation
- Child Abuse Prevention
Month and the Child Abuse
Prevention Month Awards Benefit
- One Kind Word
is designed to
help defuse parent-child conflicts in public settings. One Kind Word
gives anyone the words and actions -- in three simple steps -- to
recognize a situation, to pause, and to intervene with kindness. For
more information, including training for organizations, contact
412-363-1702 x1159.
- The Be
The Difference Campaign promotes
the many ways that each of us can
support parents and kids, especially in stressful situations.
For
more information, contact 412-363-1702 x1015
- The Parent Education
Network helps connect people
working at all levels in the parent
education field with resources, training, and information.
- Nurturing
Course Training is
available for staff in other agencies who are interested in offering
the Nurturing Course to their constituents.
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