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Services |
Approaches
Services
Adoption: Children
and families are assessed, prepared, and supported during
the adoption process. Children are referred from child welfare.
Specialized Foster Family Care:
A short-term transition before a child is returned to his
or her birth family, or kin, or is placed into an adoptive
family. Every Child values the special contribution of foster
parents, and carefully prepares and supports these families.
Family Based Mental Health Services:
Short-term, in-home therapy to stabilize families in crisis.
Supportive approaches are designed to empower families toward
positive change.
Family Focused Solution-Based
Services: Innovative therapeutic service offered
to families working with CYF. A Team Delivered Approach
is used to enhance family functioning and stability.
Family Preservation:
Referrals are received from CYF to work with families in
crisis who have at least one child who is at imminet risk
of placement. Staff and the family work together to stabilize
the crisis and keep the family together.
Family Reunification:
Referrals are received from CYF to work with families who
have at least one child in out-of-home placement. Together,
staff and family work to stabilize the home environment
to aid in the child's transition back home, as well as provide
after-care.
Medically-Related Wrap-Around:
Families with children who are medically fragile receive
support, resources, and education to gain confidence in
caring for their child at home.
Health Infants for Pregnant Teens
and Women: Staff, who are also trained as
Doulas, support women and teens with disabilities and special
health care needs. Support continues throughout their pregnancy
and the first year of their baby's life.
Post Adoption Support Services:
Once a child's adoption is finalized, Every Child provides
an array of supportive services to the family for as long
as it is needed through the Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption
and Permanency Network (SWAN).
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Specialized Approaches for Children,
and Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Families
PAT (Parents as Teachers Curriculum):
Staff who are certified Parent Educators increase the family's
knowledge of child development by using the Parents as Teachers
curriculum.
Living LARGE for Teens and Young
Adults: A life skills curriculum designed
to provide hands-on and creative learning opportunities.
Mentors for Children with Incarcerated
Parents: Children who have incarcerated parents
and a special need are matched with caring and understanding
volunteer mentors.
Doulas (certified to support the
parents during labor, delivery, and post-partum):
Staff provides physical, emotional, and informational support
to women and families during and after childbirth.
Rebuilding Families for Children
with Incarcerated Parents: Supportive interventions
with children and families when a parent is incarcerated.
Structural Family Intervention
Approach: Strategies of a structural nature
are used throughout our organization to enhance assessment,
intervention, service, and treatment.
Respite: Respite
is offered as a brief, temporary break from the responsibilities
of parenting for birth, foster, and adoptive parents. Respite
families are trained and assessed to provide a therapeutic
environment for the child.
Family Retreats:
A therapeutic weekend adventure, family retreats are offered
for birth, foster, and adoptive families to spend time together.
Family Support Groups:
Every Child provides several support groups for families
who have children with challenging behaviors.
Attachment Therapy:
Techniques are used to treat adopted children who have experienced
serious abuse, neglect, and losses due to multiple moves
early in childhood.
Resource and Referral:
Staff help to identify resources, advocates, and services
for families and organizations who are not currently served
by the agency.
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