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Programs & services - To make a referral or request more information, call (203) 624-2600 x300
Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Needs CCCC partners with families and providers to link children and youth with special health care needs and their families to services and resources in a coordinated effort to maximize the potential of children and youth, optimize health outcomes and improve quality of care. Comprehensive, patient-centered services are provided by four Care Coordinators responsible for completing initial assessments, developing an individualized, comprehensive and coordinated Care Plan, helping families and providers to understand, support and implement the Care Plan, making needed service referrals and addressing barriers to provision of needed services, monitoring and updating the Care Plan and providing information, education and supportive counseling to children, youth and family members and working closely with the regional and statewide Family Support Networks. Parent Education ProgramThe Parent Education Program is designed to prevent child abuse and neglect and keep families together by providing free, home-based parent education, support, role modeling, family advocacy, referral and case management services to families. Parent Educators make weekly home visits to educate parents about child development, limit setting, behavior management, child safety and other related aspects of positive parenting and to strengthen parenting skills and to provide skill building in areas such as parent-child communication and daily living skills including household management and budgeting. Parent Educators act as role models, decrease parental isolation and link families to other needed services. Parent Educators are certified in the Parents As Teachers program. Family Violence Outreach PreventionThe Family Violence Outreach Program works to increase the safety of child and adult victims of family violence and reduce the effects of traumatization by providing specialized outreach, therapeutic and support services to abused women and their children. Emphasis is placed on risk assessment and safety planning to protect children, prevent unnecessary removal of children and youth from their families and keep non-offending parents and children together whenever possible. Individual and group counseling, advocacy, referral to other services and case management to women in abusive relationships and their children and to sexually abused children and their family members are provided.
Nurturing Families Network The Nurturing Families Network offers a comprehensive array of primary prevention services to first-time parents to prevent child abuse and neglect. Services include the provision of critical health information, weekly telephone support, a parenting education and support group and home-based parenting education and advocacy. All Parent Educators are certified in the Parents As Teachers program. Neighborhood Victim Advocacy ProgramThe Neighborhood Victim Advocacy Program works to increase the safety of crime victims and help them stabilize their lives through safety planning, short term counseling, linkage to other community resources and victim advocacy. Services are provided to New Haven victims of domestic violence, elder abuse, robbery, assault and hate and bias crimes. These services are coordinated with the New Haven Department of Police Services. New Haven Family PartnershipThe New Haven Family Partnership works to end the cycle of homelessness by providing case management to help find housing and other needed community services, assessment of the family system, developmental and behavioral assessments of children and short-term counseling for children. Services are provided to families that are currently homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and who are coping with HIV/AIDS, mental illness or substance abuse. The Partnership is a collaboration between CCCC and Also/Cornerstone, Inc., The Connection, Inc. and New Haven Home Recovery. The Family Support CollaborativeCCCC partners with ALSO-Cornerstone in The Family Support Collaborative to provide home-based parenting skill education, supportive housing and intensive case management to parents with a mental illness, cognitive limitation, addiction, homelessness or other challenge to family preservation. The Family Support Collaborative works to prevent child abuse and neglect and strengthen families. The CCCC Parent Educator is trained in the Parents As Teachers program which helps teach parents about child development and how to meet the needs of their young children. The Parenting Support and Parental Rights Initiative The Parenting Support and Parental Rights Initiative provides help to parents with psychiatric disabilities to educate parents about their parental rights, maintain custody of their children, help make informed choices around their children’s care, obtain needed services, develop temporary guardianship plans and promote values of personal empowerment, family stability and recovery. Key program components include individualized, home-based services, parenting skill training, education about mental illness and symptom management, legal advice and advocacy, linkage to other needed community resources, group support and peer mentoring. Coordinating Council For Children In Crisis, Inc. collaborates with Troup Middle School to implement the Teen Outreach Program, a science-based program model first developed in 1978 and shown to be highly effective in preventing risk factors that contribute to drop out rates, academic failure, teen pregnancy and other negative behaviors. TOP teens gather weekly throughout the school year for curriculum-guided discussions about relevant issues and making good decisions for the future, and they participate in regular community service learning and neighborhood improvement projects. After-school activities will also be available. The structured community service allows the students to become “help givers”, develop positive and supportive relationships with adults and other peers and promotes a sense of purpose and healthy behavior and decision-making. Motheread/Fatheread Family literacy classes to help parents use reading and story sharing
techniques as a way to connect with their children. Motheread/Fatheread
teaches comprehension, critical thinking, problem solving, speaking and
writing skills while helping parents and children explore their own needs
and feelings through the use of multicultural children’s literature.
This program is made possible through a partnership between The Community
Foundation for Greater New Haven and The Connecticut Humanities Council.
Comments or suggestions to info@ccccnh.org
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