Home visiting programs provide parents and caregivers with emotional support, information, and referrals to community resources and services. Parent and Child Home Visiting Services connects parents and caregivers with a designated support person who regularly meets with them and their children in the home or another preferred location.
Relief Nursery Outreach
Care Coordinators regularly visit the homes of families with children 0-5 years old, helping parents recognize their strengths and abilities as parents, and to feel more confident about their parenting skills. Care Coordinators and parents work together to monitor children’s development with appropriate assessment tools, and to recognize and respond to children’s unique temperament, personality, communication styles and behavioral cues.
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up (ABC)
ABC is an evidence-based parenting intervention for caregivers of infants and toddlers who have experienced early adversity. ABC coaches work in the home with families with infants between 6 and 24 months of age. Coaches use positive feedback to support caregivers though a 10-week program, enhancing children’s emotional and behavioral regulation, and fostering the development of a secure attachment.
Grandmas2Go®
Grandmas2Go connects parents of young children (0-5 years old) with “women of wisdom” to whom parents can turn for well-informed advice, hope and encouragement. Grandmas2Go are volunteers who understand that parenting can be both stressful and joyful, and who are happy to hold a crying baby or change a diaper while they connect with parents about their hopes, dreams, and expectations for themselves and
their children.
Family Strengths in Practice
Family strengths in Practice is an ODHS referral program that utilizes a ‘whole family’ therapeutic approach to build cognitive skills parenting. This service is designed to support parents with increasing parenting competencies through multi-disciplinary models for emotional regulation, cognitive skills building, and practical life skills learning and application. The interventionist who provides this service accomplishes service delivery through in-home visits with the family and correlating goals
for outcomes.
In-Home Safety and Reunification Services (ISRS)
Participation in short-term, intensive home visitation services through our ISRS program requires a referral by Child Welfare. ISRS providers develop receptive, responsive, and respectful relationships with referred families, building on the unique strengths of parents/caregivers so that parents/caregivers, the Family Nurturing Center ISRS provider, and the Child Welfare caseworker can work together to ensure child safety.