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CFCAA
SERVICE AREAS
Angel
Rose Touchstone Services
Named
after, and dedicated to, a beautiful baby girl, who didn't quite
make it into this world, but who nevertheless will touch many lives
through these family services, in her name.
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Parent Educators/Coaches
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Parent
Educators are experienced in Crisis Intervention, Addictions,
Counselling, Trauma, ECE, Youth & Family Counselling. |
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Parent
Educators provide in-home assessments with families to determine
the family's immediate needs. |
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Once
the assessments are completed in-home sessions begin to teach
parents "hands on" techniques to empower the parents
to reach their goals. |
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Parent
Educators will support the families for an unlimited number
of sessions until the Parent's goals are met. |
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This
free service may be accessed through agency or self referrals |
Eligibility
At risk parents/families
with known or suspicions of, or vulnerability to:
Comprehensive
Evaluation
In order to
provide a comprehensive and well-integrated service, the Centre
will focus upon providing a variety of interventions to families
after thorough assessments.
Comprehensive
Family Needs Assessment (CFNA). The CFNA shall explore such issues
as:
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The nature
of the parent/child relationship, living arrangement, parental
role and frequency/nature of contact |
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The history
of the family |
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Child rearing/disciplinary
characteristics/issues within the family |
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The presence
of anger control issues within the family |
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General
health history |
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General
nutrition history |
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Daily activities/routines
concerns |
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General
occupational and financial status. |
Program-Service
Details:
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Parenting/coping life skills development. |
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Parenting
educational/support group. To encourage non-custodial parents
towards, and to support them in providing, consistent, regular,
loving, and disciplinarily appropriate parenting to their children.
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Individual
Counselling and Support. |
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Specialized
Assessments. Arranged through the Centre and may include: neuropsychological/psycho-educational
assessment; psychodiagnostic assessment; medical/visual/auditory/speech-language
assessment. |
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Related
interventions, advocacy and community referrals available. |
Program Model
Interventions
shall be loosely guided by developmental stage of the children in
the household, in addition to family needs more broadly as follows.
Long term support is anticipated as family's move through the consecutive
streams.
Core Service
Delivery Competencies, Skills & Developmental Objectives
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Life
Skills: Safety/security; housing; health; Family schedule/organization/daily
routine; Meals (nutrition, shopping, planning, organization,
implementation); transportation; finances; laundry; cleaning/organization.
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Parental relationship/skills: Attachment/bonding; communication
skills; activities; appropriate discipline; conflict resolution. |
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Social/community linkage support. |
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Children:
Academic readiness, support & advocacy; problem identification/referral |
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Adolescents:
Problem identification/referral; academic support; vocational
guidance |
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Adults:
Problem identification/referral; Parenting skill development;
Vocational guidance |
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