FAMILY CENTER INC
493 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216 www.thefamilycenter.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Family Center provides comprehensive social, legal and mental health services to families affected by parental illness, crisis or loss. Since 1994, The Family Center (TFC) has been serving New York City's (NYC) most vulnerable families with comprehensive, interdisciplinary services designed to promote stability and well-being for adults, children and families. With an initial focus on families impacted by HIV, TFC has used rigorous evaluation to develop an array of services and programs to address the stressors and challenges faced by families made vulnerable by physical or mental illness, poverty, trauma, substance use, and other barriers. Specifically, TFC services include permanency planning, individual and family supportive counseling, trauma-informed mental health services, health care coordination, information and referral, advocacy and group programs. Legal services provide for legal counsel, advice and representation to address a broad range of legal challenges in the areas

The Family Center provides comprehensive social, legal and mental health services to families affected by parental illness, crisis or loss.

Social Services:Permanency Planning and Disclosure Support TFC assist ill parents with creating a sound future care plan for his/her children. Helping a parent or caregiver develop a viable plan for the future care of his/her children is a complicated task. TFC supports the ill parent through a difficult set of discussions about their mortality and their children's future. Parents are educated about the planning process and the services and entitlements that would be available to the new caregiver in the event of the client's death. We explore with the ill parent possible vulnerabilities in the client's desired plan with the goal of anticipating and addressing any obstacles to the proposed plan. Individual and Family Supportive Counseling -- TFC offers individual and family counseling to its clients. Individual counseling services focus on addressing issues related to illness, trauma and loss, as well as on parenting, self-efficacy and self-care. TFC's family counseling services focus on family communication, family adjustment, and disclosure issues. Mental Health Services -- TFC offers a full service mental health clinic licensed by the NYS Office of Mental Health providing trauma informed counseling, psychological and psychiatric services specializing in working with children and teens struggling with mental illness. All clinic services are provided by Master's level mental health professionals who receive weekly supervision from an LCSW supervisor. Behavioral Health Services -- TFC's behavioral health multi-prong programming includes medical case management designed to ensure that all HIV+ individuals in the households we serve have access to high-quality medical care and information; treatment adherence support services utilizing an individualized counseling model addressing the last three phases of the CDC HIV treatment (Gardner) cascade: helping people stay in HIV care, get on HAART and adhere to regimens to achieve undetectable viral loads. Case Management TFC staff assist clients with accessing a range of benefits for themselves and their families. Case management activities include conducting research about appropriate services and eligibility, making referrals, assisting clients with application processes, providing advocacy, and coordinating services with other providers. Group Services TFC offers a range of groups for adults, teens and families. TFCs group offerings include drop-in groups, closed membership shortterm groups, and ongoing psycho-educational and support groups. Some groups are open up to clients of other TFC Departments and/or partner organizations.Outreach and Community Education TFC has a strong commitment to reaching out to families who could benefit from our services as well as sharing our program model with partner organizations. As part of TFCs outreach strategy, we have developed a series of trainings and workshops in areas of our expertise which we make available to consumer and professional groups. TFC also has team of consumers and former consumers who have been trained as Peer Outreach Workers. The POWs present to varied audiences on services received at TFC and their own personal experiences. The POWs augment our outreach capacity at health fairs and community events and bring a unique voice to our outreach message.

Child Welfare Services:Funded by the NYC Administration for Children's Services, TFC utilizes the evidence based model Family Connections to provide intensive preventive services to young children and adolescents at risk for out-of-home placement. Staffed by bachelors and master's level professionals, families receive support to assist children and adolescents who are truant from school, actively using substances and/or gang involved. Utilizing the Family Connections model, children, adolescents and parents are supported in developing realistic goals to aid the family in getting back on track.

The Irene LeeKong Health and Wellness Institute at The Family Center is a full service mental health clinic providing counseling,psychological and psychiatric services. The Institute specializes in serving children, adolescents and teens with mental illness and assists in the positive growth of the entire family.

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