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Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a short-term mental health program designed for child, adolescent, and adult survivors of traumatic experiences such as childhood abuse, war, torture, sexual assault, rape, and other forms of violence. Goals of NET include reducing clinical symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, suicidality, substance use, self-harm, aggressive acting out, guilt, and shame. NET also aims to improve functioning at social, occupational, scholastic, and emotional levels.
Nurturing Parenting Program for Parents & Their Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers (NPP-ITP) is a group- and home-based program that focuses on addressing parenting needs. NPP-ITP is designed for families with children younger than five years who are referred for parenting education by Social Services/Mental Health for child abuse and neglect and/or family dysfunction. Families attend group-based sessions for two and a half hours weekly for 16 weeks. Families who receive child welfare services also receive seven home-based sessions, each lasting 60 to 90 minutes. Group sessions involve activities and discussion that are designed to help parents (1) set appropriate expectations, (2) empathize with their children, (3) reduce their use of harmful punishments, (4) develop positive parent-child roles (i.e., where the parent, not the child, acts as the caregiver), and (5) empower their children (e.g., offering children choices and tools to effectively voice opinions). While parents are in their group sessions, children attend concurrent groups.
Nurturing Parenting Program for Parents & Their School Age Children 5 to 11 Years (NPP 5-11) is a group-based program designed for families with children between 5 and 11 years who are referred for parenting education by Social Services/Mental Health for child abuse and neglect and/or family dysfunction. Families attend group-based sessions for two and a half hours weekly for 15 weeks. Group sessions involve activities and discussion that are designed to help parents (1) set appropriate expectations, (2) empathize with their children, (3) reduce their use of harmful punishments, (4) develop positive parent-child roles (i.e., where the parent, not the child, acts as the caregiver), and (5) foster suitable levels of child independence. While parents are in their group sessions, children attend concurrent groups. Two facilitators are needed to implement each of the groups. There is a break in each session where children and parents come together to do a group activity meant to foster positive relationships between parent-child dyads. Facilitators must attend a 3-day training. Additional trainings and supports are also available.
Nurturing Skills™ for Families is a program designed to improve parenting skills and prevent child abuse and neglect in families with children ages 0–19. The program aims to (1) build self-worth; (2) develop empathy and a sense of caring; (3) promote positive, non-violent discipline practices and techniques; (4) have appropriate family role expectations; and (5) help adults and children increase their personal power to positively influence their lives.
Ohio’s Kinship Supports Intervention/ProtectOHIO is designed to promote and support kinship placements. The goal of the intervention is to meet children’s physical, emotional, financial, and basic needs by connecting kinship caregivers with federal, state, and local resources. The kinship caregiver support plan is a key component of the intervention. This plan focuses on case management activities and may address topics such as financial assistance, referral services, and training for kinship caregivers. This plan is intended to be individualized, incorporating information from tools such as the home assessment and needs assessment, and to be reviewed and updated regularly. Monthly home visit services with a kinship coordinator are also offered. These face-to-face interactions are an opportunity to establish trust between the kinship caregiver and coordinator. They are designed to promote more effective communication, education, assessment, planning, and support for the family.
On the Way Home® (OTWH) is designed to support families with youth ages 12–18 as youth transition from residential out-of-home care to home, school, and community settings. OTWH supports this transition by empowering families, enhancing family relationships, and supporting academic engagement and success. The program integrates three interventions: Check & Connect , Common Sense Parenting (CSP), and homework support.
Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) is a home visiting and case management program for pregnant women and mothers with substance use disorders. PCAP aims to support and maintain recovery from substance use disorders, promote healthy families, and prevent prenatal substance exposure. To meet these aims, PCAP case managers work with clients to build independence and life skills. PCAP is designed to serve clients who are pregnant or have given birth within the past 12 months (or 24 months if program space allows), have self-reported problematic drug or alcohol use during pregnancy, and require assistance connecting to community service providers. PCAP can also serve clients who meet these three criteria: they already have a child with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, are still drinking, and may become pregnant again. Clients cannot be unenrolled due to noncompliance or relapse. Instead, case managers ask clients to learn from mistakes, identify triggers, and implement new behaviors.
Parent-Child Care (PC-CARE) is a parenting program designed to provide brief support to caregivers with children ages 1–10. PC-CARE aims to help caregivers improve relationships with their child and learn new child behavior management strategies. The caregiver and child participate in one pretreatment session, six treatment sessions, and an optional booster session. During the pretreatment session, the provider gathers information about the caregiver and child and shares information about the purpose of PC-CARE. The provider then conducts a behavioral observation while the caregiver and child play. After the observation, the provider gives the caregiver feedback on the interaction.
In Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), parents are coached by a trained therapist in behavior-management and relationship skills. PCIT is a program for two to seven-year old children and their parents or caregivers that aims to decrease externalizing child behavior problems, increase positive parenting behaviors, and improve the quality of the parent-child relationship. During weekly sessions, therapists coach caregivers in skills such as child-centered play, communication, increasing child compliance, and problem-solving. Therapists use “bug-in-the-ear” technology to provide live coaching to parents or caregivers from behind a one-way mirror (there are some modifications in which live same-room coaching is also used). Parents or caregivers progress through treatment as they master specific competencies, thus there is no fixed length of treatment. Most families are able to achieve mastery of the program content in 12 to 20 one-hour sessions. Master’s level therapists who have received specialized training provide PCIT services to children and caregivers.
Parenting Now!TM is an adaptation of Make Parenting a Pleasure® designed for any parents of children ages 0–6. The parenting program aims to help parents build healthy relationships with their children and to help families identify and pursue value-based goals for children to succeed and thrive. The Parenting Now! curriculum teaches child development and parenting skills. Parenting Educators deliver Parenting Now! to groups of parents in 7 sessions. The group format is essential to program delivery so that parents can connect with other parents, normalize their experience, and build a support network. During the sessions, Parenting Educators use discussion and activities to teach parents key concepts such as stress management, communication skills, foundations of discipline, positive discipline strategies, and strategies for addressing challenging behaviors. After each session, parents complete a “home practice assignment” intended to help them apply the knowledge and skills from the session in their own life.