716-822-0919 x236
Primary Services
Child Development Classes, Home Based Parenting Education, Parent/Child Activity Groups, Parenting Skills Classes, Pediatric Developmental Screening
Description
Offers services to families currently homeless, facing potential homelessness, or displaced by domestic violence. Helps parents of children ages 0-8 understand their children's development, improves parenting skills, offers opportunities for parents to build their protective factors, provides support for parents feeling isolated, and offers a safe, supportive space for parents to focus on bonding with their children. Parent Promoters work with parents in group settings and one-on-one sessions to ensure parents have the opportunity to enhance their parenting skills. Sessions focus on child development and social-emotional competence in infants and young children.
Services include:
- Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ): Designed to assess a child's development in regards to communication, fine motor, gross motor, problem solving, and personal-social abilities, in order to detect learning delays early on. Linkages to early intervention services offered when necessary. Parent Promoters can show parents how to engage with their child in the different developmental areas and provide parents with age-appropriate activities to do with their child.
- Positive Solutions for Families (PSF): An evidence-based curriculum designed for parents with children ages 3-7. Assists parents in learning positive and effective techniques to promote their children's social and emotional development. Involves only the parents and facilitators; child care offered to participants when needed. Typically offers one session per week for six weeks.
- Parents Interacting with Infants (PIWI): A parent-child playgroup designed for parents and their children ages 6 weeks to 3 years old. Offers a fun, interactive setting where parents can play with their children, learn about their child's development, and build connections with other parents. Typically offers one session per week for five weeks.
PSF and PIWI can be offered in a group setting within a homeless shelter, domestic violence program, at an agency, or in the community. They can also be offered one-on-one with a parent and Parent Promoter at an agency or in a home.
Services include:
- Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ): Designed to assess a child's development in regards to communication, fine motor, gross motor, problem solving, and personal-social abilities, in order to detect learning delays early on. Linkages to early intervention services offered when necessary. Parent Promoters can show parents how to engage with their child in the different developmental areas and provide parents with age-appropriate activities to do with their child.
- Positive Solutions for Families (PSF): An evidence-based curriculum designed for parents with children ages 3-7. Assists parents in learning positive and effective techniques to promote their children's social and emotional development. Involves only the parents and facilitators; child care offered to participants when needed. Typically offers one session per week for six weeks.
- Parents Interacting with Infants (PIWI): A parent-child playgroup designed for parents and their children ages 6 weeks to 3 years old. Offers a fun, interactive setting where parents can play with their children, learn about their child's development, and build connections with other parents. Typically offers one session per week for five weeks.
PSF and PIWI can be offered in a group setting within a homeless shelter, domestic violence program, at an agency, or in the community. They can also be offered one-on-one with a parent and Parent Promoter at an agency or in a home.
Hours
Call for specific program hours.
Eligibility
Families with children ages 0-8 that are currently homeless, facing potential homelessness, or displaced by domestic violence.
Service Area: Erie County.
Service Area: Erie County.
Intake Process
Please call to set up a PSF or PIWI group or to refer a parent to the program.
Program Fees
Free.
Date of Official Change
Sep 19, 2024
Contacts
Jamie Dolan (Primary)
Supervising Parent Promoter
jdolan@familyhelpcenter.net
716-822-0919 x236