In Home Family Stability
The In Home Family Stability Program is only available in Summit County. The program is offered through an agreement with Summit County Department of Job and Family Services and allocated Prevention, Retention and Contingency Funds and contracted through Summit County Children Services (SCCS).
The primary goal of the program is to maintain children in their own home and stabilize kinship placements if a child needs to enter agency care. The program provides parents and kinship caregivers with social, emotional, parental and educational support to reduce the family’s stress and minimize the risks of abuse and neglect to the children.
Services are provided to parents or kinship caregivers within Summit County with children, newborn to 18-year-old (or 21 if in agency custody), receiving SCCS services. In home services are provided and available 24/7 and include addressing crises and providing conflict resolution.
Services include:
- Parenting education including discipline, daily structure and daily living, role modeling and positive interactive strategies between children and parents
- Case management – advocacy and connection families to needed community resources
- Interpersonal relations building – between adults and children, development of support systems, stress and time management, improved decision making, social skills development to enhance relationships with others and facilitate positive interactions with family, peer, authority figures and community
- Child development education to the parent/caregiver – to enhance skills and understanding of developmental milestones, bonding issues, developmental play and discipline