 Currently, Family Support Network receives in-home
visitation requests through the Department of Public Health and Human Services, Maternal Child Health, Early Childhood Intervention, area physicians and schools. All services are voluntary and any family who is involved with DPHHS, has a high number of risk factors, and meets federal poverty levels is eligible
for an opportunity to become involved in our program.
Family Support Network is a
community resource and home visitation program for families in Montana.
Supportive family services are provideding a strength-based program.
FSN operates on the premise that all families
have
strengths
and are capable of change
given sufficient help and resources.
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Some of the other concepts that guide the way services are provided include the belief that family strengths are what ultimately resolve issues of concern so it is important to set-up opportunities for families to show their strengths, strengths are discovered through listening, strengths are enhanced when they are acknowledged and encouraged, people
gain a sense of hope when they are listened to, options are preferable to advice, empowering people is preferable to controlling them, and last, a friend is more helpful to people than a boss. The services provided are
comprehensive in nature, covering a broad range of needs, and are focused on problem solving, problem prevention, family support and family preservation. The
confidentiality of our clients is given the highest priority. Personal records are kept in locked drawers, the client database is
password protected and clients are assigned identification numbers by the computer and all information is accessed by that identification number.
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Goals
- To decrease the incidences of child abuse and neglect in referred
families.
- To increase the capabilities of at risk families to nurture their
children in healthy environments and function independently.
- To decrease the length of time that children who have been removed
from their families remain in foster care.
- To focus on child safety and well being.
Anticipated Outcomes
- Reasonable efforts will be successful to prevent removal from their family
of origin.
- Reasonable efforts will be successful to reunify a child to the family
from which it was removed.
- Improved outcomes for permanency.
- Enhanced parent/child bonding, emotional ties, and communications.
- Increased parental skills in coping with stresses of infant and childcare.
- Improved family self-sufficiency.
- In Home Support
- Assist families to learn to clean their homes, assess home for
safety of children.
- Assist Parents
- Model parenting techniques (discipline, praise, play, chores,
communication).
- Help the Family
- Read with children and parent, ensure meds are taken, fill prescriptions.
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Information Request Form
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Family
Support Network