Help for Families
The Family Support Programs has trained staff to work with clients in our home visiting programs. Families can choose to focus on topics such as:
- Budgeting skills to increase financial awareness and stability
- Positive discipline
- Life and stress management
- Community Resources
- Prenatal and infant care
- Infant growth and child development
- Childcare, preschool and after school services
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Toddler Time where parents and toddlers come together to play, learn new parenting tips and connect with one another.
- Tuesday mornings, September to June from 9:30 to 11:00 am for familes with children ages 0-3
- FMI call 466-5190 ext. 317
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The Deployment Cycle Support Program for military families with members who will be or who are currently deployed.
- Case management for famlies experiencing a deployment
- Resource and referral to appropriate programs
- Assists returning Veterans with job readiness services
- Special projects
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The Children in the Middle program is to help parents who are separated or divorced by teaching them skills that:
- Engage parents in recognizing the effects on children caught in the middle of parental problems and conflicts
- Help parents to learn new skills and apply them to their own situations
- Encourage parents to let their children know that the children’s reactions to being caught in the middle are normal and the children should give parents feedback when problems are occuring
- Educate parents on how to reduce the main stressors of divorce and separation on children.
- This course is completed on-line and there is a fee for this program
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For more information on our Family Support Programs please contact Program Director, Sue Watson, at 466-5190 ext. 303 or email Sue.Watson@frcberlin-gorham.org
