The Intensive in Home Family Preservation Program is designed to provide immediate crisis intervention and stabilization to families with child (ren) at imminent risk of placement into foster care. Features include:â¢Response to referral within 24 hoursâ¢24-hour-a-day availability â¢Maximum caseload of two â four families per counselorâ¢Services located in the natural environmentâ¢Services responsive to client values and lifestylesâ¢Appointments scheduled at the convenience of clientsâ¢Intensive servicesâ¢Skills-based interventionsâ¢Provision of concrete services for meeting basic needs

Provides collaborative support services to families of children with disabilities using a strength-based, family-centered approach to problem solving, and working in coordination with other community providers.

A Family Assessment Response helps ensure that children are safe, while at the same time setting aside the issue of fault and negative labels for parent and caretakers.

Provides in-home and community care coordination services to at risk youth and families with a clinical and family preservation focus.

Preventive services are supportive and rehabilitative services provided to children and their families to avert disruption of a family which could result in an out of home placement for the child, to enable a child who has been placed in foster care to be reunited with his or her family at an earlier time than would otherwise be possible, or to reduce the likelihood that a child discharged from foster care will return to such care.

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

Works with Oswego County families who have youth at risk for possible placement due to issues related to PINS or JD behaviors. Offers casework services to assist families in identifying issues that place children at risk and developing goals to address those concerns. Provides both home-based and school-based counseling services, crisis intervention, advocacy, and referral to other support services in the community.

* 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.

Provides help with the prevention of placing a child out of the family home or ensuring the successful return of a child to the family home from an out-of-home placement. Program staff help families alleviate the immediate crisis and improve family functioning so that the risk of placement or re-placement is reduced.

Provides two-hour group training sessions to families who have children who meet HCBS waiver eligibility requirements under age 18. Topics vary and are geared toward families who have children with developmental disabilities. Call for more information.

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 process designed to help families organize services from several agencies, as well as family and friends. Goal is to help families receive the supports and services necessary to prevent the out of home placement of children. Process helps the family identify and obtain needed services and helps the service providers become more in touch with the goals of the family.

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.

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.

Intensive program teaching parenting skills in order to prevent the placement of children in foster care or to expedite their return from placement. Also located at: 1750 Pine Avenue Niagara Falls, NY, 14301

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.

Provides customized services to youth and families. Services are tailored according to needs (i.e. family work, skill building support, education) so as to help improve coping skills, prevent out-of-home placement, and help improve family functioning.

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

Responsible for providing assistance to families affected by child abuse/neglect or adoption of a Seneca child. Offers parenting classes for foster parents and biological parents. Program strives to prevent out of home placement of Native children; goal of the case plan is to reunify the family. Program provides case management services and referrals to other agencies that will help the family serve the best interests of the child.

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.

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.

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 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.