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.

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.

Provides home visiting services for pregnant women and new parents. The program provides prenatal information to support a healthy pregnancy and support new parents by offering education and information to encourage healthy child development.

Provides early childhood education and family support services to children and families. The program goal is to offer a wide range of social and educational experiences to help prepare children and families for a successful transition into kindergarten. Also offers home visitors to families of program participants and to families who do not have a Head Start within their school district. Visits are designed to strengthen family protective factors and encourage family resilience using supportive services, education on child development, offering community referrals, and supporting families with their goals.

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.

Services include helping families access community resources and services, sharing strategies and research based on education with families on parenting and child development, connecting families with medical providers, and assessing children at all stages of development.

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).

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.

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.

Offers public health nurses to provide education, support and case management services to pregnant and new parents, including those with other infants and young children. Health and social assessments and breastfeeding education and support services are also offered.

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.

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 early childhood education and family support services to children and families. The program goal is to offer a wide range of social and educational experiences to help prepare children and families for a successful transition into kindergarten. Also offers home visitors to families of program participants and to families who do not have a Head Start within their school district. Visits are designed to strengthen family protective factors and encourage family resilience using supportive services, education on child development, offering community referrals, and supporting families with their goals.

Assists new parents through a range of services from teaching about child development to assisting in accessing resources relevant to their strengths and needs.

Provides early childhood education and family support services to children and families. The program goal is to offer a wide range of social and educational experiences to help prepare children and families for a successful transition into kindergarten. Also offers home visitors to families of program participants and to families who do not have a Head Start within their school district. Visits are designed to strengthen family protective factors and encourage family resilience using supportive services, education on child development, offering community referrals, and supporting families with their goals.

Assists new parents through a range of services from teaching about child development to assisting in accessing resources relevant to their strengths and needs.

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.

Provides an evidence-based, preventive, home visiting model that follows a nationally recognized maternal child health home visiting curriculum.The program helps first-time mothers have healthy pregnancies, become knowledgeable and nurturing parents, reach education and employment goals, and provide their children with the best possible start in life. Each woman is paired with a registered nurse who makes home visits from pregnancy and up to the child's second birthday.

Provides a short-term and in-home prevention program for support and skill-building services to families with children at risk of being removed from the home. Children at risk may exhibit behaviors such as assaulting others, running away, engaging in theft, vandalism, or drug abuse, and may be disruptive in school.

Services include, but are not limited to, strengthening the family unit by teaching adaptive parenting and safety skills to parents-guardians, teaching self-management, decision-making skills with identified youth, assistance with transportation, budget, and housing, and case planning for child development.

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 prenatal and post partum support to individuals, parents and guardians through education and visitation as may be merited and desired.

* Provides a home visiting program that promotes parenting skill acquisition in the family's natural environment to reduce abuse and neglect. Designed to be completed in 18 sessions.

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 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.