Whole
Family Placement
Who we
serve
Parents and
their children
with a variety
of issues:
• Lack of
knowledge/ability/skills
in how to meet
children’s needs
• Coping with
mental and/or
physical health
issues
• Alcohol and/or
chemical
dependency
recovery
•
Physical/sexual/emotional
abuse issues
that are
unresolved
• Homelessness
• Male
dependency
issues
•
Educational/employment
needs
• Developmental
delays
How
we serve them
• The parents,
DSS case worker,
and Growing Home
Southeast team
assess what is
in the best
interest of
permanency for
the child/ren in
a mutual,
respectful, and
timely fashion.
• Growing
Home Southeast
team assesses
parents’
strengths and
needs.
• GHSE
treatment
parents provide
intensive
hands-on
training and
mentoring for
the parent(s).
• Growing
Home Southeast
team and parent
develop a
measurable goal
plan that
includes taking
care of self,
living skills
and
connectedness
that creates a
sense of
belonging for
the participant
parent and
children.
Program benefits
• Produces
permanency for
child/ren early
in their
development
• Enables
biological
parents to learn
parenting skills
and living
skills necessary
to maintain a
household while
dealing with
their personal
issues
• Helps parents
develop the
skills needed to
carry out
parental duties,
make good
decisions,
and
exit the child
welfare system
• Prevention of
out-of-home
placement of
children
Expected
Outcomes
Whole Family
Placement
services aim to
stabilize
families so
that:
• Children
will move on to
permanency, with
this family or
another.
• Parents
will assess,
understand, and
improve their
parenting
abilities.
• There are
no new reports
of child abuse/
neglect six
months after the
program
completion.
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