Family Enrichment
This is a Department of Children and Families- funded program tasked with the mission of improving and maintaining parenting skills provided to children through the delivery of services that are home-based, strength-focused and delivered within a family context. Referrals for this program come through the State of CT Department of Children and Families.
This program utilizes Parent Aides (PA) who are paraprofessionals capable of developing a trusting relationship with the parent. The PA provides support and encouragement, builds self-esteem and helps to reduce the isolation of the client served. Parent Aides may work to engage ‘resistant’ parents and teach parenting skills, advocate for or seek services for a family such as food and housing, establish and reinforce health care needs of a family, or help to ensure that a parent understands and utilizes treatment suggestions provided by other professionals.
Guided with the mission that every child has the right to grow and thrive safely in nurturing homes, the DCF-Parent Aide Program expects to meet this challenge by:
- improving general parenting skills.
- teaching and applying child development knowledge.
- improving parent-child relationships.
- improving discipline techniques.
- reinforcing confidence and self-esteem among parents.
- teaching and practicing basic living skills.
- engaging families in the use of community resources.
- promoting substance-free behaviors.
- promoting sex and child abuse-free family environment.
- developing a positive social network.
For more information about the Family Enrichment program, please call our office at (860) 757-4819
