Family Enrichment

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

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