Brief Services is a short-term, intensive, family-focused service that helps at-risk families cope with problems and improve childcare practices. Families with children ages 0-18 who are involved with Children and Youth Services can be referred.
Goals of Brief Services:
- To enhance the parents' ability to create a safe, stable, and nurturing home environment that promotes healthy child development.
- To maintain children with their families, or reunify them, whenever it can be done safely.
- To provide, refer to, and coordinate services needed to achieve or maintain family safety, stability, independence, and unity.
Services May Include:
- Family Counseling sessions for individuals, couples, entire families or any combination of family members.
- Parent Training:
- Behavior Management
- Child Development
- Health and Nutrition
- Assessment/Recommendations using the Family Advocacy & Support Tool (FAST)
- Skill Development, such as Budgeting, Stress Management, Conflict Resolution, Daily Living, Anger Management, and Communication
- Visitation in Reunification Cases
- Assistance in locating adequate housing or improving home conditions necessary to a child's safety
- Development of support systems and linkage.
- On-call Crisis Intervention available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Crisis stabilization.
Referrals:
Brief Services at Family Services of NW PA are available to families with children ages 0-18 who are involved with Children and Youth Services.
Referrals to Brief Services can be made by:
- Crawford County Children and Youth Services (CYS)
- Crawford County Juvenile Probation Office (JPO)
- Mercer County Children and Youth Services (CYS)
