Resource Family Services
Resource Family Support services is a program aimed at training, supporting, caring, advocating, and linking foster parents, approved parents, approved relatives or approved non-relative, or extended family with resources they need to provide and maintain children in a safe environment. The program is to provide a child with a feeling of safety, permanence, and well-being wherever the child is placed. Our role is to work diligently to preserve, support, and stabilize foster family home placements, and to promote the well-being of children, youth, and families. Such support or skills can include:
- Home visits.
- Coordination of services.
- Conflict management.
- Emergency/crisis services
- Child development education
- Developmental/behavioral effects of trauma education
- Parenting education/training
- Parent training with children present
- Monitor progress of parenting skills
- Family communication
- Foster family support
- Community service information
- Community referrals and follow-up
- Develop structure/time management
- Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) support.
This program is also offered in Kiswahili.