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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.

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).

Offers inter-agency approach to provide a variety of support services to children at risk of out-of-home placement and their families. Works with families to determine what services are needed in each individualized case.

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

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.

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.

Assists parents with children who have behavioral problems. Develops plans to deal with behavior problems and screens for eligibility for immediate family court referrals for PINS (Persons In Need of Supervision) runaways. Other services include information and referral, assessment and case planning, casework services, parenting classes, and preventative services. Program is strictly voluntary.

Serves children/youth at-risk for out-of-home placement due to educational, community or home-based concerns. Also serves children/youth who are currently in out-of-home placement whose discharge could be accelerated if preventive services were in place. Primary Goal is to safely maintain children in their own homes whenever possible and to greatly enhance the prospect of that permanence.

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.

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.

Collaborates with community agencies and service providers to support families based on their cultural and individual strengths and needs to provide preventive and foster care services. Provides child welfare program, adoption services, preventive services, and foster care resulting from voluntary or court placement. Preventive services are supports and assistance to help a family learn skills (such as coping skills, parenting skills, budgeting skills, anger management, etc.) that will prevent a child from being abused and therefore removed from the home.

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.

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 support services to families of at risk youth, with community and home-based intervention, family preservation services, support groups and more.

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.

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.

Provides support services to families with children at risk for out-of-home placement due to child abuse, neglect, or returning home from residential treatment. Services include home visits, helping families in strengthening skills and creating positive parent-child relations.

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.

Preventive services are supportive and rehabilitative services provided to children and their families to avert disruption of a family which could result in an out of home placement for the child, to enable a child who has been placed in foster care to be reunited with his or her family at an earlier time than would otherwise be possible, or to reduce the likelihood that a child discharged from foster care will return to such care.

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.

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

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