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FAMILY
CONNECTIONS PROJECT
3555 Veterans Memorial Highway
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
(631) 737-1454 |
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Purpose:
The Family Connections Project is intended to help
reunify families where parental problems have resulted
in recent placement of children in DSS care.
Description:
Family Connections assists children in dealing with
the trauma of foster care placement through supervised
visits with their parents. At the same time, Family
Coaches help parents with concrete parenting skill
development and permanency planning goals designed
to facilitate the child(ren)'s return home. Goals
for the family's participating in the program are
developed with the parents, foster parents, caseworker
and EAC staff.
Initial
visits between parents and children take place at
EAC's facility in Ronkonkoma. As parents make progress,
visits move from facility-based to community-based,
with the final step of in-home supervised visits as
the family moves toward reunification. Feedback is
provided to parents and DSS as the family moves through
the program.
Funding:
The program is funded by the Suffolk County Department
of Social Services.
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