We believe in the highest level of care for youth that ends with positive changes in their behavior, attitude, and overall character development. Progressive Community Outreach mentors youth by being committed to the Core Principles of Strength-Based Practice. We believe wholeheartedly that change is inevitable – all individuals have the urge to succeed, to explore the world around them and to make themselves useful to others and their communities. What we focus on becomes one’s reality – focus on strength, not labels – seeing challenges as areas for growth and opportunity. Our therapeutic mentoring services build upon strengths, not weakness and assist all youth to become the change we want to see.
Therapeutic Mentoring services include, but are not limited to:
Therapeutic Mentoring services include, but are not limited to:
- Coaching, supporting and training the youth in age-appropriate behaviors
- Interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, problem-solving
- Relating appropriately to other children, adolescents, and adults, in recreational and social activities
- Ongoing monitoring, including motivational interviewing
- Psychosocial skill training (communication, problem solving, relapse prevention, anger management, etc.
- Relationship skill‐building and support between adolescent and caregiver
- Providing/facilitating linkages to community‐based recovery supports and activities to promote wellness
- Transporting youth to needed services
- Assisting the youth to develop coping and problem‐solving strategies to improve self‐management
- Contacting youth in‐person and by phone to offer support and assistance and to encourage and support engagement in mutual support groups and other mental health/recovery services
- Organizing structured leisure and recreational activities – based on participants’ preferences – in order to provide opportunities for participants to practice social and coping skills
- Assisting in the development, review and updating of Wellness/Recovery Action Plans
- Assisting in identifying needed services and supports to sustain recovery and work with individuals in navigating social service systems
- Acting as advocate/liaison when necessary at court hearings, child welfare, environments that might invoke trauma reactions, etc.
What is Parenting Education?
Parent education can be defined as any training, program, or other intervention that helps parents acquire skills to improve their parenting of and communication with their children in order to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and/or reduce children’s disruptive behaviors. Parent education may be delivered individually or in a group in the home, classroom, or other setting; it may be face-to-face or online; and it may include direct instruction, discussion, videos, modeling, or other formats.
Parent education and coaching can promote well being and strengthen families and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), as reauthorized in 2010, identify parent education as a core prevention service.
What is a Parent Coach?
A parent coach is NOT a therapist. What are the differences?
How does Parent Education and Coaching work?
Parent coaching is a short term, collaborative process between parents and coach, helping parents to identify and correct parenting problems and building on a family's strengths.
We believe that our families’ needs are of the utmost importance. Our agency is committed to meeting those needs by providing quality services. Progressive Community Outreach uses programs for intervention –treatment called Tertiary Prevention from the Nurturing Parent Program (NPP). The Tertiary Prevention-Treatment Programs are designed for families referred for parenting education by Social Services/Mental Health for child abuse and neglect and/or family dysfunction.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are evidenced–based programs recognized by National Registry of Evidenced-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency (OJJDP), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and Child Welfare League of America (CWLA).
To further ensure that our organization is providing quality services the assessments are used such as the Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory-Version 2 is used. The AAPI-2 is an inventory designed to assess the parenting and child rearing attitudes of adolescents and adult parent and pre-parent populations. Based on the known parenting and child rearing behaviors of abusive parents, responses to the inventory provide an index of risk for practicing behaviors known to be attributable to child abuse and neglect. The AAPI-2 is the revised and re-normed version of the original AAPI first developed in 1979.
Parent education can be defined as any training, program, or other intervention that helps parents acquire skills to improve their parenting of and communication with their children in order to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and/or reduce children’s disruptive behaviors. Parent education may be delivered individually or in a group in the home, classroom, or other setting; it may be face-to-face or online; and it may include direct instruction, discussion, videos, modeling, or other formats.
Parent education and coaching can promote well being and strengthen families and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), as reauthorized in 2010, identify parent education as a core prevention service.
What is a Parent Coach?
- A parent coach is a highly trained professional who helps parent(s) or legal guardian(s) cultivate a better relationship with their children.
- Whether on the phone, in-person, a parent coach gives customized support and advice based on each individual family’s needs.
- A parent coach addresses issues such as problems with routines and transitions (morning and night, for example), power struggles, parental anger, discipline, homework challenges, chores, and “disrespectful” behavior.
- A parent coach assists the parents in creating parenting plans and then supports the parents as they practice these plans. Because children and families can be complex, the parent coach helps parents’ problem-solve as challenges arise.
- A parent coach will help identify your strengths as a parent, and build upon these strengths.
- A parent coach will offer practical, research-based (NPP) recommendations that take into account parent(s) time, schedule, resources, cultural and spiritual beliefs, and family structure.
- A parent coach will uphold confidentiality at all times.
A parent coach is NOT a therapist. What are the differences?
- Individuals seeking therapy are often in crisis, and need a therapist’s help to bring them to a functioning level. Parents seeking coaching are facing challenges, and seeking assistance, but should not be in crisis when receiving coaching.
- Therapists work with clients to decipher how past experiences have shaped current behaviors or personality traits. Parent coaching looks forward, deals in the present, seeks to educate, and does not diagnose. Parent coaching uses tools and the most current research to help parent(s) gain the skills they need to parent their child.
- Progressive will mobilize community resources as a part of case management and refer clients for a higher level of care if necessary. Progressive will connect families to mental health services if necessary.
How does Parent Education and Coaching work?
Parent coaching is a short term, collaborative process between parents and coach, helping parents to identify and correct parenting problems and building on a family's strengths.
- During the initial contact the parenting coach will gather information about family habits, routines and strengths and identify the most urgent behavior problems the parents experience with the children. The coach will refer to information provided by DSS, CPS, or mental health provider to ensure family is willing to participate and understand specific requirements.
- At the next contact, the parents and coach will discuss corrective parenting skills and implement goals based on a parenting plan prepared by the coach with input from the family to ensure it is person-centered.
- Over the next weeks, follow up contacts, will provide ongoing support to build on the family's strengths, reinforce new behaviors and revise the parenting plan if necessary and evaluate changes. This includes but not limited to: attending FAPT meetings, Court hearings, and other appointments on behalf of the family.
- Throughout the coaching process the parenting coach will provide information and resources relevant to the parent and child's development and focus on ways to create a supportive home environment.
- Our parent coaches work with families to find ways of supporting their child’s growth and development by enhancing their parenting skills simultaneously.
- They teach and empower parents’ to develop effective communication skills, set clear boundaries and maintain consistent rules and structure in the home.
- They strive to increase parents’ sense of self-worth, personal empowerment, empathy, bonding, and attachment.
- They help the parents’ increase the use of alternative strategies to harsh and abusive disciplinary practices.
- They help increase parents' knowledge of age-appropriate developmental expectations through psycho education practices.
- They provide emotional support and on-going education to parents’ who have teens or young adults struggling with emotional, educational, and addiction issues.
- They prepare parents’ and provide on-going support and guidance while their child is making the transition from out-of-home placement back into their homes or the community.
We believe that our families’ needs are of the utmost importance. Our agency is committed to meeting those needs by providing quality services. Progressive Community Outreach uses programs for intervention –treatment called Tertiary Prevention from the Nurturing Parent Program (NPP). The Tertiary Prevention-Treatment Programs are designed for families referred for parenting education by Social Services/Mental Health for child abuse and neglect and/or family dysfunction.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are evidenced–based programs recognized by National Registry of Evidenced-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency (OJJDP), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and Child Welfare League of America (CWLA).
To further ensure that our organization is providing quality services the assessments are used such as the Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory-Version 2 is used. The AAPI-2 is an inventory designed to assess the parenting and child rearing attitudes of adolescents and adult parent and pre-parent populations. Based on the known parenting and child rearing behaviors of abusive parents, responses to the inventory provide an index of risk for practicing behaviors known to be attributable to child abuse and neglect. The AAPI-2 is the revised and re-normed version of the original AAPI first developed in 1979.