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Safe & Together
Foster care placement (the legal removing of a child from their parents’ care due to abuse, neglect, or drug use) can be an enormous trauma in the life of a child, the effects of which are evident throughout adulthood. Children separated from their birth parents often do not receive the consistent nurturing and support needed to build skills for life success, and nearly half grow up to become homeless and/or convicted of crimes.
Impact Northwest’s Safe & Together program works to reduce the trauma of foster care placement and to prevent the need for future intervention. Safe & Together brings birth parents, foster parents, child welfare officers, counselors, and program advocates to work collaboratively in addressing the issues that led to the need for intervention and to ease the transition of the child back to the birth family.
- Through home visits, Impact Northwest staff works one-on-one with families to create a safe and healthy environment.
- Parent-child interaction groups promote healthy attachment between adult and child, support early learning and socialization, and provide opportunities for children to have play experiences that build skills and self confidence.
- Birth parent support groups, foster parent support groups, and fathers’ groups provide parents with opportunities to practice parenting skills, problem solve behavioral issues, and give each other support as they go through reunification.
- Impact Northwest staff connects families to community services and resources that support their health and success, such as housing and energy assistance, health care, and job-readiness training.
- To help families heal and to keep them together after reunification, free counseling sessions through PSU’s Community Counseling Center address issues that resulted from separation or the underlying issues that led to the child being placed in foster care.
Each of our services is based on mutual respect and rapport, focuses on families’ strengths, and draws parents’ attention to particular competencies in themselves and their children.