Our Family Services Department strives to provide local families with a support structure and nurturing environment in which parents actively participate in programs that help provide the tools necessary for their children's future success.
Prevention Services
These programs are targeted to low-income, at-risk families who are striving to make financial security, family stability, healthy relationships and educational success a reality for their children.
- Family Relationship Programs
- Private pay sliding scale individual, child, family and parent-child attachment therapy
- Circle of Security Parenting ® - an 8-10 session psycho-educational group to promote secure relationships.
- Family Emergency Services Programs
- We offer help with referrals and financial assistance with rent and utilities for families with children under 18. We also offer individualized life skills education in budgeting, family nutrition, resume building, and job & housing searches. Our gift giving programs give supplies for going back to school and holiday assistance to center families struggling to achieve and maintain financial stability.
- Click here for results from the 2009 Back to School Supply Drive
- Click here for results for the 2009 Adopt a Family Christmas Gift Program
- Please contact Ashley Suter at 509-455-8722 ext. 206 to discuss your immediate needs or to see how you can become a Back to School or Adopt a Family donor.
Intervention Services
These programs break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, oppression, abuse and/or neglect and are often referred by the state Department of Child and Family Services.
- Family Preservation Services
- We provide home visitation, parent education, cultural support and concrete assistance to keep children out of foster care or help them return home when parents have made the changes that are needed to keep them safe.
- Professional Services
- We provide psycho-social and parenting assessments, video-based parent-child attachment therapy, individual counseling and hands-on parent education.
For more information about the programs and services offered by our Family Services Department, or to register for a program, please contact Suzanne Kolbe, Family Services Director.
