Reunification and Therapeutic Family Time
Our Reunification and Therapeutic Family Time program provides intensive support services for families with children in DCF custody whose permanency goal is family reunification.
Program Category: Parenting Education & Family Strengthening
Fatherhood Engagement Services
Fatherhood Engagement Services works to help strengthen father-child bonds and enhance the level of involvement of fathers in their DCF case planning, provision of services and positive parenting.
Parenting Education Program (PEP)
Our Parenting Education Program (PEP) helps you and your child adjust in a healthy way after divorce or living apart from a parent/caregiver.
Parenting During and After Divorce (KIDSAFE)
KIDSAFE’s Parenting During and After Divorce classes educate and train parents on how to help children adjust in a healthy way to divorce or living apart from a parent.
Spring Street Family Center
Our Spring Street Family Center is a place where you and your family can enjoy your community, access resources and grow and learn in a safe environment.
Attachment & Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC)
Our Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) program can help you provide nurturing care and secure attachment to your baby, understand your baby’s behaviors as they become more independent, and learn how to nurture your distressed child by following their lead….
Parent PALS (Postnatal Assistant Lending Support)
Our Parent PALS (Postnatal Assistants Lending Support) home-based program, offered through Stronger Families Stronger Futures Prenatal and Early Childhood Home Visiting Network, is “fourth trimester” support for you and your family during your baby’s first year of life, designed to help you build healthy, nurturing parenting skills, including concrete tasks, empathetic listening, companionship and connecting to community resources.
Community Support for Families
Community Support for Families is a voluntary, family-driven program that helps families strengthen natural and community support systems to maintain safe and healthy home environments, reducing the risk of child abuse and neglect.
Supervised Visitation
Our program provides private supervised visitation services to non-custodial parents so they may visit their children in a neutral and appropriate setting.
Words Count
Words Count is a short-term, play-based program that builds on creativity and caregiver-child bonds to help young children increase their vocabularies and enhance their conversational abilities.
Child First
Child First, designed by Darcy Lowell, MD, helps reduce the impact toxic stress can have on your child’s development by strengthening your relationship with your child and addressing your family’s basic needs, such as shelter, food, medical care or employment.
Early Head Start
Our Early Head Start Program provides you with parent education, child development information and learning activities with weekly home or virtual visits, using the Growing Great Kids curriculum.
Parents as Teachers
Our Parents as Teachers home visiting program will help you build parental resilience and knowledge of parenting and child development to help your child thrive and be healthy, safe and ready to learn. Trained professionals will make regular personal home or virtual visits during your child’s earliest years in life, from prenatal through kindergarten.