Parenting Group

Caring Together’s weekly therapeutic/psychoeducational parenting groups are provided based on the All Behavior Is Purposeful model developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Ages and Stages

Ages and Stages is a parent inclusive developmental assessment tool that our Child Development staff use to assess the children receiving services through Caring Together’s Learning Center. This tool helps to identify strengths and potential developmental deficits in the children in our program and also guides the Child Development staff in the individual and group curriculum they provide to the children while their mothers are in treatment. This tool also assist the staff in providing age appropriate activities and parenting tips for the mothers in the program who are receiving individual and group parent education and therapy. For more information about Ages and Stages and to access a very useful developmental parenting aid, please click on the following:

http://www.nncc.org/Child.Dev/age.stage.page.html#top
and
http://www.pbrookes.com/store/books/bricker-asq/asq-introduction.pdf

Strengthening Families

Strengthening Families is an onsite 8 week ongoing parenting and relationship focused program in cooperation with Youth Service Inc provided to clients at Caring Together.

ENHANCED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN OF WOMEN IN SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT: This program, a Department of Human Services (DHS) and Coordinating Office of Drug and Alcohol Prevention Programs (CODAPP) collaborative initiative, provides services in substance abuse treatment centers that are designed to reduce the incidence of abuse and neglect in the population of women with drug and alcohol issues. Caring Together is fortunate to be one of the participating sites with a Family Service Coordinator. For more information about this program, please click on the following link: DHS Enhanced Program Site.