Ending Child Maltreatment
Child maltreatment refers to child abuse and/or neglect. Often child maltreatment is so severe that a child must be placed in a foster home or other out-of-home placement. Removal of a child from their home is traumatic in itself and in most cases not necessary. Quality programs like those summarized below can treat the potential causes of child maltreatment in addition to protecting chldren from danger.
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Carlton Manor - Therapeutic Group Home »
The mission of the Carlton Manor Therapeutic Group Home program is to maintain emotionally handicapped, severely emotionally disturbed, and at-risk males ages 6-16 in their family, home and community environment and to reduce the need for more costly long-term mental health hospitalization, juvenile justice commitment, and long-term residential care.
Children's Outpatient (Directions) »
Children's Outpatient (Directions) allow children and families with mild to severe problems to achieve the highest level of emotional health possible through a holistic, effective approach to therapy. Services are offered in the office and in the community.
Children's Outpatient (Suncoast) »
Children's Outpatient (Suncoast) provides effective and efficient behavioral health services to all children and their families in Pinellas County regardless of the presenting problem and assists them in reaching their highest possible level of functioning. Services are offered county-wide with a strong focus in South St. Petersburg.
Emergency Response Team »
Emergency Response Team promotes the health, safety and well-being of at-risk children by providing immediate crisis and early intervention services. ERT also promotes family stability through community-based abuse and neglect prevention and referral to long term programs and services such as Total Family Strategy.
Healthy Families Pinellas »
Healthy Families Pinellas is a home visiting family support program for families with pregnant mothers and newborns. Families may stay in the program for up to five years while recieving services like parent education, tracking and assessment of child development, bonding and attachment, immunizations, family centered coordinated case management, transportation, development of a Family Support Plan, crisis intervention, and referral to medical and other community-based services.
Intensive Family Services »
Intensive Family Services provides intensive in-home therapeutic services to Pinellas County families that are in distress due to the severe mental health issues of a family member. The program targets families with mental health issues who also have children ages 0-17.
Kinship Services »
Kinship Services provides an extensive network of local service providers to coordinate a larger system of care for relative care givers (grandparents, aunts uncles, etc.) in Pinellas County. The services provided are network navigation, case management, support groups, family activities and referrals to needed community resources.
Medical Foster Care Home »
Medical Foster Care Home serves any child from birth to age 21 who has a complex medical condition requiring extensive nursing and health supervision, while working toward finding a safe and permanent home for each child and empowering parents or foster care providers to be appropriate caregivers.
Operation PAR, Inc. - COSA at the Child Development and Family Outpatient Center »
COSA at the Child Development and Family Outpatient Center. COSA stands for Cornerstone of Successful Achievement and serves substance abusing pregnant and parenting women whose infants and preschool children are often developmentally delayed. The program provides day treatment, outpatient treatment, drug screens, early intervention, group case management and continuing care.
Respite Care »
Respite Care improves a family’s ability to cope with the daily stress of providing for a loved one with a disability. The program provides quality respite care to individuals from birth to 18 years of age with any developmental disability
Safestart Partnership Center »
Safestart Partnership Center serves children age 0-6 and their families who have witnessed or experienced violence in the home or in the community by enhancing and integrating the supports and services offered by community providers, agencies and institutions; and by creating a community culture of keeping children valued, cared for and safe.
Sexual Assault Family Empowerment Program »
The mission of the Sexual Assault Family Empowerment program is twofold: to empower families to heal from sexual violence and to help our community prevent this trauma. The program provides services to any child victim (toddler through 17) of sexual assault as well as to his/her family members. The program also provides treatment for adult survivors of incest, rape survivors 12 years of age and older, and secondary rape survivors.
Suncoast-Childnet »
The mission of the Childnet is to preserve and maintain the family unit when parents or caregivers are physically or emotionally incapacitated and to prevent children from being placed into substitute care.
Suncoast-Family Self Sufficiency »
Family Self Sufficiency provides case management and counseling services to homeless families.
Total Family Strategy »
Total Family Strategy supports, strengthens and empowers young families to actively utilize natural and community-based support systems thereby preventing the need for future involvement with publicly funded, punitive, stigmatic social programs.
