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Provides intensive home visiting services for parents who are active with DSS and have children who are identified as at-risk for or placed in foster care. Parent Aides teach basic living and parenting skills in the home setting in addition to connecting families to various community resources and supports.

Astor works with families who are at risk of having a child with an out-of-home placement. The program helps the family through supportive and advocacy services, create a structured family plan, and link to other needed services.

Provides in-home weekly case planning and referral services, parent service aides, child safety, appropriate discipline and supervision, household management, budgeting assistance, child developmental education, parent/child relationship education, parent role education, and therapeutic treatment for families at risk of foster care placement. Reunification services available for families with children in foster care.

Provides referrals to help children with serious emotional disturbances by supporting families connect, and link with community resources, to prevent out-of-home placements by providing case management support to families.

Astor works with families who are at risk of having a child with an out-of-home placement. The program helps the family through supportive and advocacy services, create a structured family plan, and link to other needed services.

An engaging, alternative approach to providing protection for children by focusing on engaging families in informal and formal support services to meet needs and increase the family's ability to care for their children. Program addresses situations in which families are reported to child protection services for issues such as educational neglect, where the child's safety is not at risk. Provides strength-based in-home services tailored to the family's needs to address the identified problem. Supports the role of families in determining what services will benefit their children. Families work with FAR for approximately 30-90 days.

Offers preventive services to avoid child placement in foster care, future child abuse, and the need for child protective services intervention. Provides services for families to achieve reunification when their children have been removed to foster care or other out of home placement. Also included are home-finding and adoption services.

Teaches families core life skills: parenting skills, household management, cooking, budgeting, time management.

Designed to prevent out-of-home place for youth. Focuses on at-risk youth ages 7 to 15 years residing in Jefferson County. Assists youth and families reach their health, safety, and service needs to refuse the risk of child abuse and neglect.

Provides home-based family and individual counseling, as well as advocacy and case management services for families where children are at risk of placement or where children have been placed but will be returned home in a short period of time. Helps families navigate behavioral challenges and traumatic experiences through home-based intervention and support.

Responsible for providing assistance to families affected by child abuse/neglect or adoption of a Seneca child. Offers parenting classes for foster parents and biological parents. Program strives to prevent out of home placement of Native children; goal of the case plan is to reunify the family. Program provides case management services and referrals to other agencies that will help the family serve the best interests of the child.

Provides assistance to the low income community and to the community at large in organizing issues which affect the community such as housing, education, employment opportunities, drugs and youth violence. Call for more information. Also offers Youth Council, Summer Youth Program, Youth Soccer Program, Senior Citizen Program and Immigration Assistance.

Offers school-based and family-based approaches to preventing out-of-home placement of at-risk youth in all school districts throughout Cattaraugus County. (Families & Schools Together, Truancy Prevention, Family Group Conferencing, etc.) CPS Contract Cases: A program designed to prevent the need for future CPS involvement by engaging families who are experiencing challenges early, providing support to build family resiliency, and helping families develop neighborhood and community-based supports. Referrals are accepted from CPS county-wide. Home Visiting Program: An in-home parenting program that provides parenting skills and structure in a one-on-one setting. Program addresses safety and risk in the home and works on identifying goals within the family. Parenting Workshop: A seven-week parenting class that uses the Active Parenting model. Parenting skills are taught in classroom/group settings. Supervised Visitation: Arranged and set up such that non-custodial parents have access to their children in a safe environment. Supervised visits are utilized as a safety measure to ensure that children are safe, while also allowing parents to build relationships with their children. Parenting skills and support are provided to both the parents and the children during the visits. New Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood Initiative: The focus of the group is to promote fatherhood and the importance of being a positive male role model for children. The group is open to any male who plays a role in a child's life (Father, Step-Father, Grandfather, Uncle, Friend).

Aims to prevent and/or reduce the length of stay of youth in psychiatric and residential care. Assists families in identifying and strengthening the protective factors known to be associated with resiliency in their children. Helps to identify and decrease those factors that impede resiliency. Increases a family's skills in order to reduce acute service utilization. Increase a family's ability to access appropriate community resources.

Designed to keep families together through active and early intervention. Operates two Preventive Services Programs: The Family Treatment and Rehabilitation Program and Special Medical Program. These programs are intended to serve families with either a child with special medical needs, a child and/or parent with a developmental disability, or a child in need of early or future permanency planning due to a parent’s substance abuse, mental illness or terminal illness.

Intensive case management program for substance abusing families who are at risk for recurrent child abuse and/or foster care placement. Each intensive case manager works with 8-10 families at a time for 6-9 months and provides 24 hour accessibility, frequent home visits, comprehensive assessments, development of a service plan for all family members and linkages of service needs with appropriate service delivery.

A Family Assessment Response helps ensure that children are safe, while at the same time setting aside the issue of fault and negative labels for parent and caretakers.

Provides services to avoid placement of children and youth outside their homes. Family- focused case management services. Helps to keep families intact and to avoid problems that may cause children to be at risk. PERSONS IN NEED OF SUPERVISION (PINS) in cooperation with the Dept. of Probation, provides intensive case management services to youth placed into the Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) Diversion Program. Support services are offered to families.*PINS* parent orientation & information session conducted monthly for parents/guardians interested in finding out more about program. Orientation registration is through Dept. of Probation Call 845-638-5544.

Provides supplemental instruction for students who are having difficulty with their coursework or who want to get more out of their regular educational program.

Provides in-home and community care coordination services to at risk youth and families with a clinical and family preservation focus.

A preventative program that provides the appropriate and necessary support to help parents keep their family intact. This is a long term program that assists the parents in identifying any barriers that prevent them from maintaining stability in the family unit and keeping the children safe from abuse and neglect.

Supports families by providing services and resources needed to strengthen the family unit, enable families to remain intact, and avoid unnecessary placement of children in foster care.

Works to prevent children from being placed in Foster Care. Child Welfare Caseworkers assist families in need of service provisions. They provide assessments, referrals, and case management while working with families through the Family Court process. If a child has been placed in foster care, they work with the families to overcome barriers that prevent a child from returning home.

Provides youth and their families with intensive support in the home, school, and community. Services include case management, crisis intervention services, and skill development.