Direct Service Programs

Enhanced Parenting

Contact: Veronica Buie, Director
215-567-8001 x3040
vbuie@healthfederation.org

Provides support for at-risk families through regular opportunities for information, skills-building, and mutual support in a group setting.

Goals:

  • Increase parents’ knowledge about child abuse and neglect, anger management techniques, child development, responsiveness and alternatives to corporal punishment.
  • Provide parents with referrals, based on documented, individual needs.
  • Encourage parents to participate in activities at their child’s school/center.

Services:

  • Intensive parenting/anger management classes that are tailored to fit the needs of participating families. The group sessions are designed not only to offer information and skill-building opportunities, but also to reduce social isolation and promote supportive relationships among parents. 
  • Structured child care supervised by trained consultants is offered during parent groups.

Eligibility:
Families with at least one child ages birth to five who are:

  • already in the DHS system or transitioning from it;
  • not in the DHS system but are at risk for child abuse, neglect and/or delinquency because of:
    • child’s special health needs,
    • post-traumatic stress,
    • homelessness,
    • history of substance abuse,
    • poverty, or
    • parent’s recent release from incarceration.