Family Support Services offered at Transformational Ministries

Provides a variety of services to foster children and their families. Family Time Specialist Provides parent-child, sibling, or transportation only services for children, youth and families (DCYF). Serve and support clients in the following manners: ​ - Develops transportation schedules to transport client(s) to and from family time/sibling visits. ​ - Ensures and maintain the safety and well-being of program participants during visits.

• Facilitates engagement between parent(s), and sibling(s) with an atmosphere that supports the parent-child, or relationship between siblings.
• Supervise/monitor the family time/sibling visit with the professional working with the family.

Family Preservation Services Provides family-focused, behavior-oriented, in-home counseling, and support to youth who are at substantial risk of placement or for children returning to the home from out-of-home care. Services provided include: ​ - Crisis Stabilization –services delivered by Professional Staff that are short-term, acute, and use an active and systematic approach to stabilization.

• Engagement – activates aligned with the principles and skills associated with Motivational Interviewing.
• Parenting Strategies –helping and teaching parents and caregivers to learn and use the skills they specifically need to safely parent their children.

​ - Family Resources - Engaging families to strengthen parent advocacy, identify personal growth opportunities, and identify accessible and supportive natural supports and community resources that directly support child safety in the home. The Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) Provides professional level services to improve family functioning to promote the child’s or adolescent’s health, safety, well-being, and welfare, supporting the family to remain intact and allow children to remain or return home. The benefits of this program include:

• Increased appropriate parenting skills.
• Increased appropriate parental discipline and behavior management.
• Improved parent-child relationship.
• Decreased child behavior problems.

Promoting First Relationships Provides early support for infants and toddlers​ up to the age of three years old who have been diagnosed with a physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in developmental delays. Families eligible for this program will receive services to strengthen the following capabilities and skills for their children including:

• Cognitive delays.
• Physical (fine or gross motor) delays.

​ - Communication (receptive or expressive language) delays. ​ - Social or Emotional delays.

• Adaptive delays.

In-home Family Therapy and Counseling Services Performed by licensed professionals and are delivered consistent with cognitive behavioral treatment modalities. Therapy and counseling services are focused on the needs of the family as they directly relate to child safety. Benefits of these services include:

• Support for a family managing difficult child and teenage behaviors, including monitoring and safety concerns.
• Family discipline support for caregivers in monitoring pre/teenage youth.
• Support for moderate to high family conflict, youth is displaying some high risk behaviors.
• Support with adolescent behavior problems including self-destructive behavior and provoking dangerous reactions in caregiver.

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