Franklin County Children and Families Community Resource Board
2011 Services Funded through the Putting Kids First Children's Services Fund
Community Based Services
ALIVE will be expanding their children's treatment program by partnering with the Juvenile Office, Children's Division, Family Court, local police departments and other social service agencies by providing counseling to children and youth who are victims of domestic violence in order to break the generational cycle of violence.
Catholic Family Services will provide counseling and therapy services to youth of Franklin County.
Catholic Family Services will offer psychiatric services to youth in Franklin County. Psychiatry would include diagnosis, treatment, and medication management.
Catholic Family Services in partnership with the Juvenile Justice System in Franklin County will work together to give an option to the judges of the county in which status offenders could be placed in 30 day respite/residential instead of in the custody of the Juvenile department. This program would allow for the child and the families to have time in order to put into place better skills so that the child has the ability to remain at home rather than being put into incarceration with juveniles who are felons.
Catholic Family Services will serve children identified by Foundations for Franklin County or Drug Court. This children will receive appx. 10 counseling sessions a piece. The children from Foundations would be children of parents who are addicted to drugs who would benefit from counseling services to help break the cycle and assist the child in understanding the issues associated with a parent with an addiction disorder.
Lutheran Children and Families Services will provide counseling and therapy services and case management to children and youth in need using the Multimodal Emotion-Focused Treatment Program and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Lutheran Family and Children's Services will provide respite up to 30 days for families with small children that need a break in order to avoid a child being removed. These services would be provided in a family home by a provider that has been certified by LFCS. Lutheran Family and Children's Services will also provide case management services for the children that are in respite care in order to assist a smooth transition back to the family home.
Lutheran Family and Children's Services will provide services to pregnant and teenage parents. Their services are comprised of three components; case management, group sessions, and direct assistance. In case management each youth will develop an individual action plan with goals. The case managers work with the youth on problem solving techniques such as prioritizing and budget management. They also work to link the youth and their child to appropriate community services such as medical care, housing, and food assistance. Groups for pregnant or parenting teens encourages social connections and peer sharing. Groups are used to improve teen's connections to community resources and to others who share their concerns, they also build more self confidence as young parents share their experiences and learn that they are not alone. The final part of LFCS proposal is direct assistance to teen parents. Direct assistance may be in the form of goods to baby proof the home, furniture for the infant that is safe, car seats, etc. It could also be used to meet the families basic needs such as utility assistance.
Currently, the CAC has one full time Family Advocate position at their Sullivan office. The Family Advocate works with non- offending parents and the child to provide supportive services during the time of immediate crisis, criminal investigation and throughout the prosecutorial process. The Family Advocate also continues to help the family and child deal with the aftermath of the sexual and physical abuse. The funding will be used to provide these services to children and families from Franklin County.
Crider Health Center will serve additional families in their Partnership with Families program. Partnership with Families uses a strength based, wrap-around approach to serve youth with serious emotional disorders and their families. The Care Coordinator is responsible for helping the families create a team of individuals to assist in meeting the goals of the family. The Care Coordinator works with the entire family in order to help them achieve their goals, strengthen their relationships and create an environment which empowers the family to gradually take on the responsibility. In coordination with Crider Health Center, FACT will provide Parent PARTNERs for families served through Partnership with Families. This is a component of the Partnership with Families program. A Parent PARTNER is a parent of a child with disabilities or SED that has already been through the ups and downs of working in multiple systems. Many families of children with SED are weary of “professionals”. Having another parent that has “been there, done that” to help guide them and mentor them in skills of parenting and advocacy makes the whole program much more effective and efficient.
CASA will implement a Life Skills Partnership Project specifically aimed at youth 14 years of age and older who are in the foster care system. They will work to assist these youth in finishing their high school education, getting into college or trade school, finding jobs, and everyday life skills such as budgeting, obtaining a drivers license, etc. An additional service of a Girls Circle Support group would be available to work on issues such as self-esteem and body image.
Preferred Family Healthcare will provide Achieving Recovery Through Creativity (A.R.T.C.) to high risk youth in Franklin County. ARTC is an art therapy program that works with the creativity of youth including through painting, sculpture, drawing, music, poetry, etc. to help the youth work through their emotional illness. A.R.T.C. serves as a means of healthy recreation, self-discovery and expression. It helps youth engage actively in their recovery and increases self-worth and confidence. This helps provide continuous intervention through-out the youth's life because they will learn a hands on way to express themselves and help themselves in a time of emotional doubt.
Preferred Family Healthcare in conjunction with the Juvenile office, DYS, Foundations for Franklin County, and Franklin County Drug Court will assess youth that enter these systems for substance abuse. The would use the SBIRT model “Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment”. Preferred Family Healthcare would be able to serve many of the youth through the Team of Concern In-School Counselors, youth that need intensive outpatient services may be linked to PFH’s CSTAR program in Franklin County, youth that need residential treatment may be linked to PFH’s residential programs in St Charles, Jefferson City, Joplin, Kansas City or Kirksville.
| School Based Services
Catholic Family Services will provide a counselor for the Catholic grade schools and Borgia Regional High School in Franklin County. They will provide a counselor one day a week to each of the parochial elementary schools and a counselor two days a week to Borgia Regional High School.
Crider Health Center is providing School Based Mental Health Specialist to schools in Franklin County. The School Based Mental Health Specialist are embedded in the schools to work with children and youth that have mental health or behavioral issues.
Crider Health Center will provide their Pinocchio program in the following school districts Union, Meramec Valley, St. Clair, Sullivan, New Haven, Franklin County and Washington. The Pinocchio program works with K - 3rd graders with emerging social, behavioral, and emotional issues that are affecting them in school. Children are screened by a Pinocchio Associate and if deemed that are in need of services they meet with the associate to work on identified skills. It may be children who are shy and need to learn to interact with others or improve their self esteem, it may be a child that needs to work on anger management skills. By working with children early in life and teaching them the skills to deal with emerging mental health issues it will reduce the incidence of higher need services later in life. Crider Health Center will provide three School Based Therapist to take case loads in five school districts; Meramec Valley, St. Clair, Sullivan, Washington and Union. These therapist would work with 30-40 children a piece. The children would be identified through the School's Counselor. These will be the highest need children.
Preferred Family Healthcare will develop and implement Teams of Concern in 9 schools in Franklin County. The teams will be multi-disciplinary teams of individuals who would come together to staff cases that have been referred by school personnel, students, or parents. The team would be the eyes and ears of the school, looking out for kids who may be falling through the cracks and need some type of assistance. The children may be at-risk for drugs and alcohol abuse, but also may need other types of services. The team would refer children to appropriate services.
Preferred Family Healthcare will provide in-school substance abuse counseling for youth identified through the Team of Concern. The Drug Abuse Counseling will include individual counseling, group counseling and group education. In addition a community support worker will assist the families of the youth in interacting with other agencies that may be deemed necessary for success and family therapy will be a part of services. Portals will provide a counselor for the Lutheran grade school in Franklin County. The counselor will work with children identified by the school in a therapeutic manner.
Prevention Services Character Plus will provide a bullying prevention program in which they work with school personnel to change the culture within the school itself. They do this through training of the school personnel and then offering coaching to engage the staff and assist implementation of the skills learned in trainings. The Children’s Advocacy Center will begin a sexual abuse prevention program in Franklin County. The sexual abuse prevention program will be offered to the local schools. In addition, in order to ensure that first responders such as police, Children’s Division workers, schools, daycares, etc. are ready to deal with a child’s disclosure of abuse, the CAC will train these adults on issues such as sexual abuse dynamics, how children disclose abuse, what do when a child discloses, etc. This will ensure that when mandated reporters receive information or have concerns about child abuse, they are trained and prepared to handle the disclosure with the least amount of trauma to the child. Crider Health Center will provide anti-violence/ anti-bullying prevention services to the school districts of Meramec Valley, New Haven, Franklin County, St. Clair, Sullivan, Washington and Union School District. Violence Prevention would be offered in grades 1 – 5, Changes and Choices in grades 5 – 7, and Healthy Relationships in 8th grade. All programs build upon one another or can stand alone. As the kids get older the focus of the program becomes more refined, for example in the older elementary grades, the bullying and teasing program focuses more on cyber bullying.
Portals will serve the Lutheran School with prevention programming that includes bullying and teasing prevention and internet safety. Portals approach is a little different from other agencies as they wil; bring a holistic approach that they call “all in” where they not only meet with the students, but they also meet with the parents and the teachers.
NCADA will provide substance abuse prevention programs for elementary, middle and high school students in the Union, Washington, St. Clair and Sullivan School Districts and at St. Francis Borgia High School. NCADA will offer a variety of curricula for elementary schools. Each lesson series focuses on skill development on a variety of topics: protecting our brains; developing skills in social competency, problem solving, and peer refusal; and making healthy choices. Middle and high schools can choose from an array of peer leadership programs where teens learn to teach substance abuse prevention lessons to peers and younger students; to lead prevention activities in their schools; and to intervene with peers whose alcohol and other drug use are a cause for concern. |