Childrens Case Management Organization Inc

Programs: Healthy families palm beach, part of healthy families florida, is a nationally accredited home visiting program for expectant parents and parents of newborns experiencing stressful life situations. The program improves childhood outcomes and increases family self-sufficiency by empowering parents through education and community support. Parents voluntarily participate in healthy families so they can learn how to recognize and respond to their babies' changing developmental needs, use positive discipline techniques, cope with the day-to-day stress of parenting in healthy ways, and set and achieve short and long-term goals. In 2017, families first served 335 families including 770 children and 321 adults. 100% of the chldren were free from abuse and neglect both during service and one year post service. Cost savings: up to $105,131, in a five-year period, for every child remaining with their family and out of the child welfare system.

child first, an evidence-based program, helps to heal and protect children and families from the devastating effects of trauma and chronic stress by fostering the development of strong, nurturing, caregiver-child relationships, promoting adult capacity, and connecting families with needed services. A clinician and care coordinator provide services that include comprehensive assessment of child and family needs, observation and consultation in early care and education settings, parent-child mental health intervention, development of a family and a child plan of care, and care coordination/case management. In 2017, families first served 98 families including 163 children and 144 adults. While the program is too new to analyze data, parents report improvements in their own stress and depression, as well as in their children's behavior, social skills and communication due to this program.

children's behavioral health services, a nationally accredited program through the council on accrediation, provides individualized care, comprehensive, family-driven mental health services, and flexible treatment strategies for at-risk and high-risk children and their families across palm beach county. This program serves children and their families from birth to twenty-two to include young adults in high schools and alternative school settings. In 2017, families first served 70 families that included 141 children and 104 adults. 95% of children served improved their behavior at home; 95% improved their social emotional functioning both in the home and school settings; 90% improved in their behavior in school. Cost savings: $2,776. 85 per child, per year, based on reduced days of hospitalization.

targeted outreach for pregnant women (topwa) is a community-based program that provides services to underserved women of childbearing age by providing pregnancy and hiv testing. The goal of topwa is to lower the number of babies born with prenatal drug exposure and hiv infection. The program offers supportive, educational and client-centered outreach services to lower the risk for hiv infection and/or substance abuse. In 2017, families first engaged 218 pregnant, high-risk women; 100% of the eight babies born to topwa mothers, who were hiv positive, tested negative to hiv within six months. Cost savings: $21,768 per year for every child born free from hiv. Kin support project, a national accredited program through the council on accreditation for children and families, guides relative caregivers raising a loved one's children in finding and accessing legal and other needed services. Its goal is to keep children out of the child welfare system. In collaboration with legal aid society of palm beach county, inc. , families first kin support project educates and empowers grandparents, aunts, uncles and siblings caring for a relative's child by increasing their knowledge and use of community resources and legal services. Program staff counsel on a wide variety of issues and concerns, not the least of which include obtaining economic benefits, educational services, legal services, financial guidance and health insurance. Access to support groups for relative caregivers and therapeutic services are offered. In 2017, the kin support project served 58 families including 138 children and 66 adults. 137 children remained with relative caregivers and out of the foster care system, a 99% success rate. Cost savings: $105,131, over five years, for every child remaining with families and out of the child welfare system. Bridges to success, a national accredited program through the council on accreditation for children and families, is a community-based collaborative project between adopt-a-family and families first. This program is a combination of housing and services intended as a cost-effective way to help families live more stable, productive lives, and is an active "community services and funding" stream across the united states. Bridges to success provides ten units of permanent housing with supportive services to families residing in palm beach county (belle glade, pahokee and royal palm beach). The program coordinator helps each family set their own goals to becoming self-sufficient. In 2017, families first served 10 families that included 14 children and 15 adults. 100% of the families maintained a safe and functional living space and permanent housing for the year. Cost savings: homeless services cost $31,000 yearly; permanent supportive housing cost $10,000; savings $21,000 per family.