Community Prevention Partnership Of Berks County

Programs: Education and training programs:kids against pressure provides skill building in an after-school program that serves latino students in five elementary schools in reading. The program is funded through a contract with service access & management, inc. Through the berks county office of mental health/developmental disabilities. The program focuses on enhancing self-esteem while recognizing and accepting individual limitation and developing social skills to build positive peer relationships. Circle of friends drop-in-center serves consumers of mental health services and provides them with socialization and support services. This program is funded through a contract with service access management, inc. Through berks county office of mental health/developmental disabilities. Community-centered health marriage and relationship training provides healthy relationship education to 1,500 students in the reading school district and 200 students in the i-lead charter school. The program also provides healthy marriage/relationship education skill-building and job enhancement to 250 adults, including some who are re-entering the community from the prison system. This program is funded through the dhhs/administration for children and families' office of family assistance.

home visitation programs: nurse family partnership program provides home visitation by registered nurses to 366 first-time, low-income, at-risk mothers in berks and schuylkill county. The program aims to teach clients child development and parenting skills. This program is funded through contracts with the pennsylvania department of human services (formerly dpw) and the schuylkill county drug and alcohol commission. Parents as teachers program provides home visits that include parenting skills and child development education for 75 low-income families with a child aged 0 - 5 years. This program is funded through the pennsylvania department of human services.

community drug, alcohol and youth violence prevention programs:the partnership provides various programs that focus on the reduction of substance use and abuse as well as crime and violence. Included in the programs are the stay on track, to implement an evidenced-based drug and alcohol prevention program for youth in 6th and 7th grades, brief strengths-based case management for returned and returning veterans and their families, to provide case management and referral services with an emphasis on substance abuse intervention and prevention for adults, celebrating reading families, provides educational sessions for predominantly spanish speaking parents and their children and case management and referral with an emphasis on substance abuse intervention and prevention, celebrating veterans families, provides educational sessions for veterans and their families as well as case management and referral services with an emphasis on substance abuse intervention and prevention. Funding for these programs is provided by the pennsylvania commission on crime and delinquency. The women for health/mujeres por la salud program provides hiv/aids and substance abuse prevention services to latinas aged 18 and older and training for graduates to serve as educators for their family, friends and neighbors. Funding for this program is provided by the substance abuse and mental health services administration's center for substance abuse prevention. The drug free communities program provides technical assistance and support to the northeast community springboard coalition located in the northeast section of the city of reading. Volunteers for this program are focusing on reducing youth use of alcohol and marijuana through an environmental approach that will impact the entire community. Funding for this program is provided by the substance abuse and mental health services administration office of the department of health & human services.