Purpose is to prevent children from being placed in either congregate residential care or foster care. Home Safe works with families that need strengthening and other assistance. Children must be referred through Suffolk County Department of Social Services. Program provides in-home parenting skills and case management services to families who have DSS/CPS involvement. Services are offered weekly for a period of six months.

Provides services for children in need of a temporary home until their parents gain enough stability in their lives to have them returned. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is strictly adhered to.

Early Learning Specialists meet with children and guardian(s) twice a week for 30 minutes in the family's home. Each Early Learning Specialist brings a new, developmentally appropriate book or toy that is used to foster cognitive and social development in the child. Early Learning Specialists provide fun learning resources for the low-income household, equipping parents as their child's first teacher and laying a foundation for long-term academic success.

A family-driven service in which caregivers partner with a Family Peer Advocate 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.

A program that helps educate and/or enhance parenting skills as a means of resolving parent/child conflict and improving communication. Parents are educated on child development, age appropriate behavior, and child management. Helps to decrease stress in the family and increase parents' coping skills.

Offers services to families currently homeless, facing potential homelessness, or displaced by domestic violence. Helps parents of children ages 0-8 understand their children's development, improves parenting skills, offers opportunities for parents to build their protective factors, provides support for parents feeling isolated, and offers a safe, supportive space for parents to focus on bonding with their children. Parent Promoters work with parents in group settings and one-on-one sessions to ensure parents have the opportunity to enhance their parenting skills. Sessions focus on child development and social-emotional competence in infants and young children. Services include: - Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ): Designed to assess a child's development in regards to communication, fine motor, gross motor, problem solving, and personal-social abilities, in order to detect learning delays early on. Linkages to early intervention services offered when necessary. Parent Promoters can show parents how to engage with their child in the different developmental areas and provide parents with age-appropriate activities to do with their child. - Positive Solutions for Families (PSF): An evidence-based curriculum designed for parents with children ages 3-7. Assists parents in learning positive and effective techniques to promote their children's social and emotional development. Involves only the parents and facilitators; child care offered to participants when needed. Typically offers one session per week for six weeks. - Parents Interacting with Infants (PIWI): A parent-child playgroup designed for parents and their children ages 6 weeks to 3 years old. Offers a fun, interactive setting where parents can play with their children, learn about their child's development, and build connections with other parents. Typically offers one session per week for five weeks. PSF and PIWI can be offered in a group setting within a homeless shelter, domestic violence program, at an agency, or in the community. They can also be offered one-on-one with a parent and Parent Promoter at an agency or in a home.

A family-driven service in which caregivers partner with a Family Peer Advocate 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.

* 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 Nurse-Family Partnership free maternal and child health services in Chemung County for first-time mothers. Clients receive health care guidance and education during pregnancy and after the birth of the baby until the child’s second birthday, to ensure healthy outcomes for both mother and child.

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).

Offers home-based services focusing on prevention and parent education to expectant and new parents beginning prenatally or shortly after the birth of a child. Provides participants with information on a variety of topics including child health and development, parent-child relationships, child abuse and neglect along with strategies on how to enhance family stability and self sufficiency.

Healthy Families of Sullivan is a comprehensive primary prevention program that focuses on the safety and healthy development of children while at the same time preserving and supporting families. The program provides in-home visiting services, which are easily accessible to isolated at risk families and are respectful of cultural and community diversity.

An intensive school-readiness home visitation program for toddlers and parents. Trained Early Learning Specialists visit families in their homes for one half-hour twice a week for a minimum of 23 weeks, for up to two program years. The Early Learning Specialist bring educational books and toys, which are used to develop early literacy and school readiness skills, increase the parent-child verbal interaction, model positive parenting, and promote pro-social behaviors. Learning materials gifted to the family serve the additional purpose of creating an educational environment in the home that generalizes to other siblings and serves as a bridge to starting school.

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

Provides assistance to parents and caregivers to take on an educator role within the home with assistance through weekly home visits, wellness education, screenings, and socialization opportunities.

* Uses personal visits, group connections, developmental screenings, and linkages to community resources to support parent participants in becoming more aware of early child-development information. Includes: Monthly Personal Visits usually conducted in the home. Elements of each visit include parent/child interaction, family well-being, and development-centered parenting Group Connections offer opportunities for families to meet and develop supportive networks. They are offered at various times and locations to allow wider access to families. They address the needs of expectant participants and parents of newborns Screenings are provided to help ensure early detection of any potential health or early-learning issues or developmental delays Resource Networking and connection to available community resources appropriate to the family's needs

Provides a home visiting program to pregnant and parenting mothers with toddlers to assist them with parenting skills. Parents are also assisted in securing medical services for their children along with educational and employment opportunities for themselves.

Provides a home visiting program to pregnant and parenting mothers with toddlers to assist them with parenting skills. Parents are also assisted in securing medical services for their children along with educational and employment opportunities for themselves.

Assists families in reducing children's risk of foster care placement and provide supports necessary to reunify or develop an alternate permanency plan for children when out of home placement becomes necessary.

* Provides education on pregnancy, nutrition, labor, delivery, infant care, growth and development, breastfeeding, etc. Case management Locating a physician Accessing Medicaid, WIC, other services

Educational Home Visiting provides home visits conducted by trained family support workers to enhance parent-child interactions and promote positive child growth and development. Families are enrolled in services early in pregnancy or immediately after birth to assist in promoting a healthy pregnancy, labor and birth. Curriculum-based home visits provide parents with skills needed to raise healthy resilient children. Families are provided with information referrals and connections to other community supports (i.e. WIC, health insurance, continuing education, literacy services.) Community Health Nurse visits continue for the first year.

Montgomery County offers first-time mothers and high-risk mothers a home visit. During this visit the nurse gives guidance and information on parenting and baby care. A packet of topics such as immunizations, family planning, breastfeeding, formula preparation, and safety issues is given to the family. Referrals are made to other agencies as needed.