Provides information about local community services and resources, education on personal and child health and well-being and positive parenting, as well as general support for parents and children.Kids Closet offers free clothing for infants and children (birth-5 yrs). May be able to help with diapers 1x/month during PAL hours. Call for more information on the Cribs for Kids program.Lunch served on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the Month at 11:30 am

Provides free, confidential telephone assistance for moms and dads parenting apart. Parent Help's professional services are designed to defuse family conflicts that can lead to abduction and abuse such as: crisis intervention, conflict resolution, safety planning, communication/parenting skill-building and more.

* Provides a home-based visitation program for expectant and new parents which focuses on social-emotional health, security and nurturing in infancy and early childhood.

*Provides supervision for court ordered visitation
*Provides parenting education and classes.

Parenting Skills: eight hands-on, interactive sessions to foster family communication skills, such as encouragement, can do, choices, self-control and respecting feelings. FREE classes, snacks and childcare. Parenting Styles: 7 weeks, sessions on parenting styles and discipline, child development, cultural influences and environmental issues. Parenting Skills Facilitated Visits: pairs parenting educator with parent(s) and children working with the Tompkins County Department of Social Services' Children's Services Unit. Parenting Educator Facilitator Trainings: annual session for those using the curricula to increase quality parenting education in our community. Tompkins County Coalition for Families: ad hoc group of organizations and citizens creating a supportive community for children and families. Tompkins Families! Community specific programming in Dryden, Enfield, Groton, and Newfield. TF can also serve other communities in addition to the ones listed here. Thriving with Your Spirited Child: a seven week program with information about temperaments. Develop effective strategies for dealing with temper tantrums and power struggles.

Provides voluntary and court ordered services to assist families in providing a safe and appropriate living situation. Assists families in providing the basic needs of their children and compliance with court ordered services. Provides a prevention program to avoid out-of-home placement and family disruption in cases of serious youth misbehavior. Offers case management services to the entire family of the at-risk youth.

Provides home-based confidential family therapy services to at-risk youth between 11-17 yrs and their families. FFT is an evidenced based short-term family counseling model. The focus is to maintain youth in their homes preventing youth's out of home placement. Referrals through DSS and SPOA. No fee.

* Provides comprehensive, long term case management and counseling services to young parents and their children. Services include: Home visiting Parenting education Employment services Education support Peer support groups

* Provides resources and education by community health nurses to pregnant women, postpartum women, and pediatric patients that offer: Medical monitoring. Health education. Pre-and post-natal care. Case management for high-risk pregnancies. * Offers an immunization clinic. * Provides screening for lead poison. * Offers the Pediatric Home Visit Program for children with acute/chronic health needs. * Offers the Early Intervention Program for children with disabilities or delayed development. * Offers the Infant Child Health Assessment Program/CHAP that provides screenings for physical, social and language development.

Free, voluntary, confidential telephone-based services to help parents resolve conflicts over custody, visitation, parenting, child support and similar issues.

Provides in home social work services to families identified as having children, ages birth to 18 years, at risk of foster care placement or who are already in placement with the need for reunification or alternative permanency planning.

Services include in-home counseling, advocacy, supervised visitation, permanency planning assessment, education and support groups, collaboration, case management, and information and referral.

Helps lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in upstate New York build and sustain healthy families through support, advocacy, information and access to community and sensitive health care and services.Current programs and service: network of LGBTQ-led families offering support, education and a sense of community to adults and children educational programs for LGBTQ parents and aspiring parents resources for LGBTQ families to help create better health outcomes for adults and children programs and information on LGBTQ families and parenting to improve cultural competency of educators and health and human service professionals. individual assistance and referral, websites, regional parent discussion listserves, quarterly newsletters, email news online searchable database of 500+ welcoming community resources and health and human service providers. educating and empowering LGBTQ parents to be advocates for their families and speaking for LGBTQ families in schools, the media, the community and government

Provides a variety of services for infants, children, new moms, and parents. Services include home visits, breastfeeding support, family planning, child immunizations, parenting and child development education, and connections to resources like daycare programs, doctors and dentists, transportation assistance, public assistance programs (including WIC), and lead testing services.

Provides families with case support services to improve their parenting skills, family functioning and promote a healthy environment.

Provides a 12 week program for adult fathers and father-figures to gain a stronger understanding of their roles and responsibilities. Assists with skill development, confiedence, parenting attitude, and education around child development, and age-appropriate discipline techniques.

* Offers a home-based therapeutic program that offers support and information to expectant or parenting young mothers and fathers throughout their pregnancy and during the first year of their child's life.

* Provides resources, care, advocacy, and support for fathers and father figures in the Black community.* Brings fathers and father figures together to build skills and to support each other in their critical roles as parents. * Offers re-entry program for fathers.

Provides a program for families to help children who are at risk of placement or who are already in placement with a goal of uniting with their families.

Clients are seen at least once a week in their home with a trauma-informed approach. Services can include but are not limited to parenting skill building; anger management; stress management; problem solving; safety planning; supportive concrete services; case planning and school consultation.

*Provides supervision for court ordered visitation
*Provides parenting education and classes.

* Offers strength-based parent education services for new parents and young parents, quality care education offered to working parents as part of child care resource and referral services, and early childhood enrichment programs. Also provides supervised visitation with a trained supervisor. Able to accommodate family and attorney requests as well as court ordered visitation.

* Provides Early Childhood Programs that consist of the following three programs: Early Head Start: a community-based program for low-income families with infants, toddlers, and pregnant women, serving children from birth to age 2. Head Start: a program specifically for children ages 3 to 5, providing educational, health, nutritional, social, and family support. Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK): a state-funded program for 4-year-olds one year before kindergarten.

* Provides pregnancy counseling services and adoption services for domestic, international and older special needs children

Assists single fathers with children with information and resources to help with the development of their child(ren) in future endeavours.

Delivers high-quality interventions, improves family functioning, supports healthy relationships, and decreases the potential for out-of-home-placement. Family Partners and Family Aides provide direct family support, parent skills training, case management support, and parenting education opportunities. The PSI program is modeled after the 3SI program, and offers all the services that 3SI offers, incorporating supervised visits for youth transitioning home after foster care.

A free, education program that provides practical, emotional and spiritual support for women and men who are new or expectant parents. Includes parenting classes which are Broome County Family Court approved, and a one-on-one mentoring program to reinforce parenting and/or life skills.