Spero Family Services

The bright start program is a daycare center that is licensed for 122 youth ages infant through 5. Approximately 50% of the families are low income and their fees are subsidized by the project child grant.

The rap immersion site program provides intensive community-based services and support through team facilitation and service coordination to families involved in department of children and family services intact or reunification services.

The group home program promotes healing and provides a compassionate environment with the support of caring people. Youth are cared for and supervised by a multi-disciplinary treatment team that includes therapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses (certified in mental health), case managers and other trained para-professional staff. A consulting psychologist is also available. This program serves 8 youth (males and females) and places them in youth homes on a 25 acre campus. Youth in the program range from 12 to 18 years of age. Spero family services consistently strives for excellence as they seek to help youth and families grow through services provided in a nurturing environment of trust and open communication.

The independent living program is a department of children and family services program that assists successful transitional living program youth in achieving independence by moving the youth into a community based apartment and out of the on-campus housing.

The traditional foster care program allows spero family services to oversee department of family and children services cases when youth are placed in a licensed foster care home or in a home of a relative or fictive kin.

The specialized foster care program allows spero family services to place youth in a licensed foster care home which provides a loving and structured home for the youth.

The transitional living program is for youth ages 17 1/2 to 21 years of age who live on campus while continuing their education, gaining employment and developing life skills to live independently.

The adolescent foster care program allows spero family services to place youth in a licensed foster care home which provides a loving and structured home for the youth.

The flex funds cash assistance program is a fiscal agent program. Spero family services is the fiscal agent and receives an administrative fee for the services provided.

The parents as teachers program provides an evidence-based approach to building strong families and communities. It also matches parents and caregivers with trained parent educators who make regular personal home visits during a child's earliest years from prenatal to 3 years old.

The youthbuild program helps high school dropouts who are unemployed or live in low-income households obtain their ged and provide them with the skills to get a job or obtain post-secondary education.

Spero counsling and wellness provides outpatient counseling and training services to individuals, families and groups of all ages on a fee for service basis.

The mental health juvenile justice program helps youth who are involved with the juvenile justice system or are at risk of involvement in juvenile justice through mentoring and connection to referral sources in an attempt to minimize involvement or re-involvement in the justice system.

The in-home intensive services program provides intensive in-home crisis intervention, counseling, and life skills education for families who have children at imminent risk of placement in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems.

The nurturing parent family first program is an extension of the nurturing parent legacy program which is a preventative program that provides in-home counseling to at-risk families who have youth with social and/or emotional needs.

The nurtuing parent legacy program provides in-home counseling to at-risk families who have youth with social and/or emotional needs.

Family foundations is a preventative program that provides in-home counseling to at-risk families who have youth with social and/or emotional needs.