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Safe Start Promising Approaches Communities
DANIA BEACH, FL
Institute for Family Centered Services, Inc.
4101 Ravenswood Road
Suite 323
Dania Beach, FL 33026
954.558.2180
Purpose
To improve outcomes of families with children from birth to 6 years of age who are exposed to domestic and community violence in Broward County, Florida.
Interventions
Intensive Family Centered Treatment: The Institute provides three levels of family-centered services that focus on creating a safe and stable environment for young children exposed to violence through consistent, supportive interactions with a primary caretaker in the family’s home. All levels of care implement play therapy with young children in a context that allows the primary caregiver to observe the play and learn about the child’s needs through what is observed. The program provides around-the-clock crisis intervention for the duration of services at all three levels.
- Project Support. Higher functioning families receive crisis intervention and stabilization, information on the impact of violence on child development, parenting skills training, child and family assessments, and linkages with community supports as needed. This intervention is provided for 3-5 hours per week over a period of 4-6 weeks, depending on need.
- Project Foundation. Families struggling with multiple stressors, who require education on child development, safety planning, and crises intervention, as well as families with children who display high levels of depression, developmental delay, or other problems receive a more intensive intervention. Crisis intervention and stabilization, parenting skills training, and linkages with community supports are offered for 5-7 hours a week over a period of 2-3 months. Additionally, services focus on working with the non-offending parent (or both parents when safety is ensured) to discuss gender and identity roles and responses to violent experiences. These support groups last for 4-6 months.
- Project Hope. Families struggling with multiple stressors who are willing to attend to their co-parenting relationship are offered the same services, which focus on cycle-of-violence interactions.
Promising or Evidence-Based Practices
Intensive Family-Centered Treatment: Cost-Effectiveness and Efficacy of Treatment for Juvenile Justice Population Conducted (2002). Goldberg. www.ifcsinc.com.
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