Parenting Education
Health Connect America provides in-home parent educational services that teach and demonstrate healthy parenting skills for age appropriate child development. This parenting education training is to ensure safe situations for children at current placements, or return placement with the family.
Services
Health Connect America offers a wide comprehensive range of flexible parenting education services tailored to the individual child’s and family’s needs. Our team will accomplish this by performing a strength(s) based, behaviorally specific needs assessment. We ensure that our services are responsive to cultural, racial, intellectual, economic, social, spiritual and gender differences among the family; and that our services occur primarily in the family home at times most convenient for the family.
In-home parenting educational services involve a series of intensive personal contacts by qualified professionals working with the parents of children 0-19 years of age. Those parenting education services include, but are not limited to:
- Teaching parenting skills/appropriate discipline techniques;
- Teaching and demonstrating household management skills;
- Assisting and teaching parents to be responsible consumers and to budget money wisely; and,
- Assisting and teaching personal skills (good grooming, healthy living habits, and appropriate dress).
Approaches Used
Health Connect America and our caseworkers have refined our approach to assisting family needs. We embrace the multi-level response approach by going into the home and accessing the needs of the family to bring in support and resources in a more positive and encouraging manner.
Staff Competency
Therapists assigned to provide parenting education services have demonstrated abilities to: 1.) integrate internally provided services with community resources to provide an effective plan of care for each client/family/case; and, 2.) work in cooperation with all legal parties involved in the case of the child, and local educational systems on behalf of their clients.
All caseworkers of Health Connect America assigned to providing parenting education services will have as minimum staffing requirements: a bachelor’s level specialist under the direct supervision of a master’s level or state licensed professional; and, training for staff prior to their working with families on delivering in-home parenting education services.
Additionally, our caseworkers will have demonstrated educational competence and met guidlines regarding experience and educational requirements. Other forms of monitoring to ensure continued quality care include direct performance observations as well as the administration of written examinations and skills testing.
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