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Relief Nursery is designed for families with children ages 0–5 that may have risk factors for child abuse and neglect. The program aims to build successful and resilient children, strengthen parenting skills, and preserve families. Relief Nursery provides an array of customized direct services to families. Through its various services, Relief Nursery seeks to help families expand child development knowledge, increase parent-child attachment, broaden social supports, foster healthy coping strategies, and access basic needs and resources. Families select one or more of the following Relief Nursery services: outreach (home visiting and respite care), parenting education, mental health and counseling, substance use disorder recovery support, and therapeutic early childhood education. Relief Nursery staff members may be involved in more than one service and typically include home visitors, parenting educators, mental health professionals, child and family therapists, classroom teachers, early special education experts, and supervisors.
Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK™) aims to assess and address psychosocial problems to strengthen families, support parents, and promote children’s healthy development in their first 5 years. Parents complete a brief Parent Questionnaire before selected well-child visits. The questionnaire is used to identify parenting and family risk factors for child maltreatment such as depression, substance use, parental stress, intimate partner violence, food insecurity, and harsh punishment. SEEK is delivered by primary care professionals (PCPs) who use motivational interviewing techniques to engage parents as partners. Then, PCPs and parents develop a plan utilizing the families’ strengths to address identified risk factors and barriers to engagement. At the end of the well-child visit, parents receive handouts for each identified risk factor. The handouts provide basic information and resources in a user-friendly way to reinforce what was covered during the visit. PCPs then refer consenting families to community resources, as needed, often with the help of clinical social workers and mental health professionals.
SafeCare is an in-home behavioral parenting program that promotes positive parent-child interactions, informed caregiver response to childhood illness and injury, and a safe home environment. SafeCare is designed for parents and caregivers of children birth through five who are either at-risk for or have a history of child neglect and/or physical abuse. The program aims to reduce child maltreatment. The SafeCare curriculum is delivered by trained and certified providers.
SafeCare Augmented is an in-home behavioral parenting program that aims to promote positive parent-child interactions, informed caregiver response to childhood illness and injury, and a safe home environment. It is designed for parents and caregivers of children age 5 and younger who are either at-risk for or who have a history of child neglect or physical abuse. The program aims to reduce child maltreatment and to support clinical care by adding training for SafeCare providers.
Seeking Safety is a coping skills intervention to help adults or adolescents attain safety from trauma and/or addiction. The intervention can be delivered individually or in groups. Seeking Safety offers up to 25 treatment topics that address cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, and case management domains. The model is highly flexible and can be delivered by peers as well as professionals. Providers can choose how many topics to cover with clients and for how long. It can also be delivered in any setting and level of care. Seeking Safety offers various training and certification opportunities to providers, but formal training is not required (except for research studies).
Solution Based Casework (SBC) is a partnership-based practice model of assessment, case planning, and casework for families with children who are 17 years or younger who have been (or are at-risk for being) referred to child welfare services. Caseworkers and families work together to identify developmental challenges that inhibit management of everyday activities (e.g., supervising and teaching children, creating a safe home environment) as well as other individual issues (e.g. anger, substance use) that make it difficult for the family to manage everyday challenges in child rearing. The family, provider, and caseworker then create individualized specific Plans of Action to address the family’s and individual caretaker’s concerns. SBC is typically delivered in homes, community centers, schools, hospitals/clinics, or other care facilities. SBC does not specify frequency or duration requirements, and providers have the flexibility to vary program dosage based on the needs of individual families. There is a standard two and a half day SBC training for caseworkers, staff and supervisors.
The Strengthening Families Program – 12-16 (SFP 12-16) is a parent and family skills training program designed to serve families with teens ages 12–16. The program is designed to serve the general population and at-risk families, including families experiencing parental substance use issues, teen substance use, and teen behavioral problems. SFP 12-16 aims to help parents increase their teen’s protective factors, such as coping skills; reduce their teen’s risk factors, such as behavioral problems; and communicate with their teens about peer pressure, sex, and relationships.
The Strengthening Families Program – 3-5 (SFP 3-5) is a parent and family skills training program designed to serve families with children ages 3–5. The program is designed to serve the general population and at-risk families, including families experiencing parental substance use issues and child behavioral problems. SFP 3-5 aims to help parents increase their children’s protective factors, such as coping skills, and reduce their children’s risk factors, such as behavioral problems.
The Strengthening Families Program – 6-11 (SFP 6-11) is a parent and family skills training program designed to serve families with children ages 6–11. The program is designed to serve the general population and at-risk families, including families experiencing parental substance use issues and child behavioral problems. SFP 6-11 aims to help parents increase their children’s protective factors, such as coping skills, and reduce their children’s risk factors, such as behavioral problems.
The Strengthening Families Program – Birth to Three (SFP B-3) is a parent and family skills training program designed to serve families with children birth through age three. The program is designed to serve the general population and at-risk families, including families experiencing parental substance use issues and child behavioral problems. SFP B-3 aims to help parents increase their children’s protective factors, such as coping skills, and reduce their children’s risk factors, such as behavioral problems. SFP B-3 consists of multi-family group sessions. Before each session, families and trained group leaders have a sit-down meal together where group leaders provide support, guidance, and praise and get to know families on a more personal level. During the first half of each session, group leaders teach parents about child development and skills to promote positive child behavior. Skills taught include how to use rewards, set limits, communicate, and problem solve. Childcare is provided separately.