Provides support services to families of at risk youth, with community and home-based intervention, family preservation services, support groups and more.

Designed to keep families together through active and early intervention. Operates two Preventive Services Programs: The Family Treatment and Rehabilitation Program and Special Medical Program. These programs are intended to serve families with either a child with special medical needs, a child and/or parent with a developmental disability, or a child in need of early or future permanency planning due to a parent’s substance abuse, mental illness or terminal illness.

Offers preventive services to avoid child placement in foster care, future child abuse, and the need for child protective services intervention. Provides services for families to achieve reunification when their children have been removed to foster care or other out of home placement. Also included are home-finding and adoption services.

Offers a number of programs designed to meet the needs of children with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. Services include: - Respite Services: Offers planned short-term and time-limited opportunities for families and care providers to have some personal time. - Employment Services: Helps adults and youth to obtain and retain competitive employment through vocational counseling, employment training programs, work experience acquisition, soft skills development, rehabilitation services, and support services to help youth obtain, maintain, or advance in competitive employment or self-employment. - Children's Health Homes/Care Management: Includes care coordination, comprehensive transitional care, individual and family support, and referral to community and social support services as needed. - Community Habilitation: Assists youth living at home with a loved one or independently in the community to maintain or develop the highest level of independence possible for them. - Community Based Day Habilitation: Promotes community inclusion and integration. - Family Reimbursement Program: Covers expenses for goods and services needed to care for a loved one with a developmental disability who lives at home. - Self-Directed Services: Enables individuals to make choices about their staff, supports, and services. - Preventive Services: Provides support to help families learn the necessary skills to ensure their children remain at home and out of foster care placement. - Behavioral Health Services: Includes community habilitation, caregiver/family supports and services, pre-vocational services, and supported employment. - Project C.O.A.C.H.: Provides telephone counseling, referral, outreach, and intervention/prevention for individuals and families.

Provides in-home weekly case planning and referral services, parent service aides, child safety, appropriate discipline and supervision, household management, budgeting assistance, child developmental education, parent/child relationship education, parent role education, and therapeutic treatment for families at risk of foster care placement. Reunification services available for families with children in foster care.

Provides home-based family and individual counseling, as well as advocacy and case management services for families where children are at risk of placement or where children have been placed but will be returned home in a short period of time. Helps families navigate behavioral challenges and traumatic experiences through home-based intervention and support.

An engaging, alternative approach to providing protection for children by focusing on engaging families in informal and formal support services to meet needs and increase the family's ability to care for their children. Program addresses situations in which families are reported to child protection services for issues such as educational neglect, where the child's safety is not at risk. Provides strength-based in-home services tailored to the family's needs to address the identified problem. Supports the role of families in determining what services will benefit their children. Families work with FAR for approximately 30-90 days.

Offers school-based and family-based approaches to preventing out-of-home placement of at-risk youth in all school districts throughout Cattaraugus County. (Families & Schools Together, Truancy Prevention, Family Group Conferencing, etc.) CPS Contract Cases: A program designed to prevent the need for future CPS involvement by engaging families who are experiencing challenges early, providing support to build family resiliency, and helping families develop neighborhood and community-based supports. Referrals are accepted from CPS county-wide. Home Visiting Program: An in-home parenting program that provides parenting skills and structure in a one-on-one setting. Program addresses safety and risk in the home and works on identifying goals within the family. Parenting Workshop: A seven-week parenting class that uses the Active Parenting model. Parenting skills are taught in classroom/group settings. Supervised Visitation: Arranged and set up such that non-custodial parents have access to their children in a safe environment. Supervised visits are utilized as a safety measure to ensure that children are safe, while also allowing parents to build relationships with their children. Parenting skills and support are provided to both the parents and the children during the visits. New Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood Initiative: The focus of the group is to promote fatherhood and the importance of being a positive male role model for children. The group is open to any male who plays a role in a child's life (Father, Step-Father, Grandfather, Uncle, Friend).

Provides services which can help prevent families who have had or are at risk of having their children placed in foster care. Families receive support for stress related issues, such as case management, daycare services, homemaker services, parenting aides, transportation, recreational services, and more.

A preventative program that provides the appropriate and necessary support to help parents keep their family intact. This is a long term program that assists the parents in identifying any barriers that prevent them from maintaining stability in the family unit and keeping the children safe from abuse and neglect.

Collaborates with community agencies and service providers to support families based on their cultural and individual strengths and needs to provide preventive and foster care services. Provides child welfare program, adoption services, preventive services, and foster care resulting from voluntary or court placement. Preventive services are supports and assistance to help a family learn skills (such as coping skills, parenting skills, budgeting skills, anger management, etc.) that will prevent a child from being abused and therefore removed from the home.

Provides the following: - Preventive services to families to assist with budgeting, discipline, parenting, etc. - Foster care services for children placed in foster care - Adoption services for families looking to adopt

Assists parents with children who have behavioral problems. Develops plans to deal with behavior problems and screens for eligibility for immediate family court referrals for PINS (Persons In Need of Supervision) runaways. Other services include information and referral, assessment and case planning, casework services, parenting classes, and preventative services. Program is strictly voluntary.

Offers preventive services to avoid child placement in foster care, future child abuse, and the need for child protective services intervention. Provides services for families to achieve reunification when their children have been removed to foster care or other out of home placement. Also included are home-finding and adoption services.

Provides referrals to help children with serious emotional disturbances by supporting families connect, and link with community resources, to prevent out-of-home placements by providing case management support to families.

Designed to prevent out-of-home place for youth. Focuses on at-risk youth ages 7 to 15 years residing in Jefferson County. Assists youth and families reach their health, safety, and service needs to refuse the risk of child abuse and neglect.

Supports families by providing services and resources needed to strengthen the family unit, enable families to remain intact, and avoid unnecessary placement of children in foster care.

Children and Family Treatment and Supportive Services that support youth and their families to live their best life.The services that are offered are the following:- Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR)- Community Psychiatric Supports and Treatment (CPST)- Therapy Services with Licensed Practitioner (OLP)- Family Peer Support Services (FPSS)- Planned Respite Services

Provides youth and their families with intensive support in the home, school, and community. Services include case management, crisis intervention services, and skill development.

Supports families by providing services and resources needed to strengthen the family unit, enable families to remain intact, and avoid unnecessary placement of children in foster care.

* Investigates allegations of child abuse and neglect received by NYS Central Registry of Abuse and Maltreatment. Services may include: Foster care placement for abused or neglected children. Preventive Services for families in crisis to avoid foster care placement. Casework/referral services. Family preservation & support programs. JD & PINS programs. Foster parent recruitment. Foster parent training and certification. Certification of adoptive families for children in foster care. Adult Protective services works with individuals 18 years and older, with physical and/or mental impairments, and no support system to help meet basic needs. On call caseworker for after hours emergencies.

Engages young adults to work through challenges they face living with a disability, mental health or substance abuse disorder with peers who have struggled with similar experiences.

Provides supplemental instruction for students who are having difficulty with their coursework or who want to get more out of their regular educational program.

Provides referrals to help children with serious emotional disturbances by supporting families connect, and link with community resources, to prevent out-of-home placements by providing case management support to families.