Family Support Services

Family Preservation Services - Family Support Services provides intensive home-based services to intervene and prevent maltreatment of children that have been identified as being at high risk by local counties' Child Welfare Departments; We teach skills to enhance positive child rearing behaviors so families avoid having their children placed in the Foster Child Care System. For the year 2023-2024, the Family Preservation Program provided services to 40 CAPIT Families, 15 SSA Families, and 108 FPP Families.

Kinship Support Services - In our Kinship and Support Programs families receive an array of services including information and referral, case management, family advocacy, workshops and training, support groups, and linkage to community resources for relatives and extended family members who are caring for a relative child, including fictive-kin. Family Support Services provided in-home services to 108 families during the fiscal year of 2023-2024. Support Groups for Caregiverso Provided 1095.75 support group participant hourso Provided 43 support groupso Averaged 11 caregivers per group 482 encounters Information and referral Callso Responded to 306 calls 149 crisis intervention calls 157 information and referral calls Programming for Kinship Children and Youtho Provided 4416.5 participants hours of programmingo Provided services 173 unduplicated children and youth o Offered 1 series of Making Proud Choices: 12 youth successfully completed the program Case Management Serviceso Provided case management to 165 unduplicated families 84% of the caregivers reported that FSS help reduce/manage stress Non-Case Managemento Provided 5675.75 non-case management hours Outreach:o Engaged in 6 community events during the fiscal year