Wyoming GLOW Family Support - Hillside Family of Agencies | Hillside Family of Agencies at 96 West Buffalo Street
A family-driven service in which caregivers partner with a Family Peer Advocate (FPA) who has lived experience helping parents navigate systems more effectively, learn from the experiences of other families, decrease isolation, and gain hope, ideas, and information. Families can enroll in one or all of the following service components to best meet their needs: - Individual Mentoring & Skills Development: Can be delivered in the home, community and/or office. A Family Peer Advocate provides mentoring, skills development, support, and information on community resources and linkage to other services. - Empowerment Groups: These services are support groups offering community resources, parent connections, and skills development. This service gives parents/caregivers an opportunity to connect and build natural community supports with other parents/caregivers with similar challenges. - Family Advocacy: This service is short term and provides instruction and support around advocacy in areas such as School and Committee of Special Education (CSE), court (preparedness and support), and systems navigation (working with providers in various systems of care). - Parent Education: Offers a variety of trainings and parenting classes throughout the year. Also offers GLOW Youth Peer Support, in which youth partner with a Youth Peer Advocate (YPA) who has lived experience navigating systems of care. The YPA supports youth in their resiliency, recovery, and wellness efforts by providing assistance in the following areas: - Skill Building - Coaching: Enhancing resiliency/recovery oriented attitudes (i.e., hope, confidence, and self-efficacy) - Engagement, Bridging, and Transition Support - Self-Advocacy, Self-Efficacy, & Empowerment - Community Connections & Natural Supports
Categories
Data provided by
211 Western New York
Physical Address
96 West Buffalo Street, Warsaw, NY 14569
Hours
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Application process
Call for more information.
Fee
Free.
Eligibility
Any parent/caregiver with a child up to 21 years old who is experiencing social, emotional, developmental, medical, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges in their home, school, placement, and/or community. For Individual Mentoring & Skill Development as well as GLOW Youth Peer Support, the child must have non-Medicaid insurance; these families can be served in Child & Family Treatment & Support Services. Call or email with questions. Service Area: Wyoming County.
Service area
14591, NY 14083, NY 14536, NY 14113, NY 14549, NY 14569, NY 14066, NY 14536, NY 14039, NY 14130, NY 14550, NY 14167, NY 14550, NY 14530, NY 14113, NY 14009, NY 14427, NY 14082, NY 14024, NY 14145, NY 14011, NY 14011, NY 14145, NY 14550, NY 14037, NY
Agency info
Hillside Family of Agencies