Family Intervention In-Home Program...
The purpose of the Family Intervention program is to prevent the abuse, neglect, or abandonment of children and to keep families together. Our counselors provide intensive in-home services – counseling and case management - to ensure the immediate and long-term protection of children’s permanency, safety and well being. Services are implemented with the ultimate goal of providing assistance to families in need so that children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of relatives. We will also provide parent education training using the Nurturing Skills curriculum, a component of Nurturing Parenting Program. 

Referrals come from ChildNet, the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Henderson Mental Health Center’s Family Resource Team, self referral, court, school social workers, or other community agencies. Staff are available by phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to respond to family emergencies. Services may be provided for up to 1 year per family. 

NURTURING PARENTING PROGRAM PHILOSOPHY

The Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP), a best practice model, emphasizes the importance of raising children in a warm, trusting, and caring household. It is founded on the belief that children who are cared for develop the capacity to trust, care, and respect themselves, other people and living things, and the environment. These are the seven principles of NPP (Copyright 2007 Family Development Resources, Inc.):

1.      Feelings of attachment

--Bond between parents and children … unconditional love leads to communication, trust and respect

2.      Empathy

--Parents’ ability to put themselves in their children’s place … leads them to respond to children in a loving and respectful way.

3.      Nurturing Oneself

--Adults who take of themselves can take better care of their children.

4.      Gentle touch

--Children who receive hugs, pats, and massages develop a positive sense of self and healthy relationships.

5.      Discipline

--Setting limits through rules, teaching right from wrong … not imposed or beaten into children … but modeled by parents.

6.      Expressing feelings

--Appropriate ways to manage and express feelings ... for adults and children … characteristic of a nurturing family.