Home-Based & Family Centered Services
CHS staff delivers in-home services designed to reinforce family values, resolve family conflicts and improve communication between family members. Programs seek to strengthen parenting skills and household management, integrate families into the community and create a safe, stable and nurturing home environment. This supportive assessment process provides tools necessary for parents to cope with the daily stress of family life.
Additionally, needs of children and families are met in neighborhood and school settings. CHS staff assesses the family situation, then link them to appropriate programs to help resolve individual and family issues. The personal and social development of youth is a primary focus of these community-based services, along with parenting education and the promotion of self-sufficiency and family stability.
Healthy Families
Birth to five years is the most important time in a child's life. Significant learning, emotional and physical development take place during these early years. But, for many parents, the demands of work, financial responsibilities, single parenthood and other factors prevent them from maximizing their children's growth opportunity at this time.
Through Healthy Families, CHS helps parents cope with the stresses of everyday life, recognize their roles as their children's first teachers, and become better role models. Experienced family social workers give parents the tools to nurture healthy child development and promote positive parenting. The voluntary services are delivered in the family home enabling parents to learn to succeed within their own environment.
Key services provided via Healthy Families home visitation approach are:
- Parenting Skills Training
- Problem Solving
- Infant Care
- Child Development Information
- Child Health Monitoring
Healthy Families works for parents and children. They learn new ways - better ways - to live and to thrive.
Healthy Start
Healthy Start is a voluntary program that promotes healthy pregnancy, good nutritional and medical care for young children, and positive parenting skills. Staff works closely with mothers to identify concerns that might be harmful to the baby including lack of prenatal care, health issues and lifestyle. Services are delivered in the mother's home, helping staff to more accurately assess her needs and make recommendations for greatest success in healthy child development.
Mothers receive such guidance and information as:
- Emotional Support and Counseling
- Family Planning
- Healthy Eating
- Substance Abuse Counseling
- Importance of Immunization
- Child Safety
- Parenting
- Childbirth Education
- Referrals to Other Resources
- And More
Family Visitation
Parents working to be reunified with their children must resolve personal and family issues in order to make their homes safe for a child's return. At the same time, these parents, who are committed to rebuilding their families, need opportunities to maintain a relationship with their child.
These families participate in safe, supervised visits that promote reunification and healthy family connections. Visits are extremely important for a child's development and allow the parents to reconnect with their child in a homelike setting. CHS staff or trained volunteers monitor and/or supervise all visits and provide role modeling for positive family interactions.
