Bellewood Home for Children announced that it received a grant from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide in-home support and counseling to families in crisis.
The Family Preservation Program is a short-term, family-based crisis intervention program designed to assist families in crisis by improving parenting and family functioning while keeping children safe.
Kentucky?s preservation program has been successful in reducing re-entry into out-of-home care, accelerating family reunification and promoting family well-being. To qualify for FPP services, families must be at imminent risk of child removal or have a child in foster care returning home. Bellewood now offers preservation services for several counties including Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Metcalfe, Monroe, Simpson and Warren.
?This new offering allows Bellewood to provide an expansion of services into the family continuum and helps us grow our service offering in an area with high levels of need,? said Kristy Watt, director of community-based services for Bellewood. ?The Family Preservation Program will impact a variety of children and families who just need guidance, love and support and help to advance stronger practices across the field in general.?
Watt said the grant will enable the Bowling Green office to add six new case managers.
Family preservation services may be provided to different types of families?birth or biological families, kinship families, foster families, and adoptive families?to help them address major challenges, stabilize the family, and enhance family functioning.
Bellewood serves abused, homeless and other troubled youths with offices in Louisville, Bowling Green, Lexington, Owensboro and Paducah. They provide residential treatment, foster care, independent living for young adults who have aged out of foster care and prevention services for unstable families.
For more information about Bellewood, visit www.bellewood.org.
Tagged: abuse , bellewood , bowling green , children , families , kentucky , lexington , Louisville , neglected , owensboro , paducah , short term , unstableSource: http://www.bellewood.org/archives/2371
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