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Provides support and assistance for individuals at risk of losing custody of their child, have lost custody of their child, or are in need of parental support.

* Helps families with children who are returning from or are at imminent risk of placement in out-of-home care by offering a short-term intervention to these families meant to achieve stabilization.

The Intensive in Home Family Preservation Program is designed to provide immediate crisis intervention and stabilization to families with child (ren) at imminent risk of placement into foster care. Features include:â¢Response to referral within 24 hoursâ¢24-hour-a-day availability â¢Maximum caseload of two â four families per counselorâ¢Services located in the natural environmentâ¢Services responsive to client values and lifestylesâ¢Appointments scheduled at the convenience of clientsâ¢Intensive servicesâ¢Skills-based interventionsâ¢Provision of concrete services for meeting basic needs

Provides two-hour group training sessions to families who have children who meet HCBS waiver eligibility requirements under age 18. Topics vary and are geared toward families who have children with developmental disabilities. Call for more information.

Offers a very structured program for families on medicaid, whose child is at risk of being placed outside their home, to avoid the removal of their child.

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.

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

The Human Services Division provides families and individuals with services that will enhance the ability of families to live together, enable individuals to remain in their homes, minimize the risk of abuse or neglect, and provide for specialized care in residential settings when necessary.

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

Provides services to prevent out of home placement for children whose families are referred by Nassau County DSS.. Outreach services include assessment of family concerns, intensive counseling, clinical services including individual and family therapy, referral to other necessary agencies, advocacy, parent education/groups, social/educational activities for the whole family.

Provides help with the prevention of placing a child out of the family home or ensuring the successful return of a child to the family home from an out-of-home placement. Program staff help families alleviate the immediate crisis and improve family functioning so that the risk of placement or re-placement is reduced.

Engages young adults to work through challenges they face living with a disability, mental health or substance abuse disorder with peers who have struggled with similar experiences.

Works with Oswego County families who have youth at risk for possible placement due to issues related to PINS or JD behaviors. Offers casework services to assist families in identifying issues that place children at risk and developing goals to address those concerns. Provides both home-based and school-based counseling services, crisis intervention, advocacy, and referral to other support services in the community.

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 services which can help prevent families who have had or are at risk of having their children placed in foster care. Families receive support for stress related issues, such as case management, daycare services, homemaker services, parenting aides, transportation, recreational services, and more.

* Provides the Regular Intensive KO/ACT Program which offers wraparound services to keep families together in situations where children with a mental health diagnosis are at imminent risk of out of home placement. Services are team based and include:

• Comprehensive strength based treatment plan
• Behavior Management
• Mentoring
• Psychiatric consultations
• Intensive supervision
• Special therapy

* Offers the Step Down Program for families that may not be in such imminent risk of out of home placement yet require assistance and support in achieving their goals. Services include:

• Team based approach
• Individualized treatment
• Collaboration with community partners

Provides an intensive, home-based program designed to reduce out-of-home placement for the most at-risk youth and families. Services include counseling, respite services, mentoring, community supervision, recreation, school and community advocacy, psychiatric and psychological services, and linkage to other community support and programs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Offers a range of intensive mobile services such as individual and family counseling, psychiatric consultations, crisis intervention and prevention, recreation, respite, parent education and training, tutoring, mentoring, case management, and vocational opportunities.

Provides in-home instructional services to families who children are at risk for foster care placement or as part of family reunification planning. Focus is on parenting skills, home and money management, conflict resolution, behavior management and negotiating the social service system.

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.

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.