Our facilitators work with small groups of parents to help parents learn about their children’s needs, understand how to help their children develop secure attachments, and develop the ability to work through crises and parenting struggles. Groups may address domestic violence and sometimes work with Parents Anonymous.

Courtney Lucas
PROGRAM MANAGER

Our facilitators work with small groups of parents to help parents learn about their children’s needs, understand how to help their children develop secure attachments, and develop the ability to work through crises and parenting struggles.

Conscious Discipline for Families–A FREE class series: Learn evidence-based discipline strategies, practice new skills, increase your sense of confidence as a parent and gain a sense of community with other parents.

Circle of Security: Learn to understand your child's emotional world, support your child's ability to manage their emotions, build your child's self-esteem, and honor your innate wisdom and desire for your child to feel secure, safe and loved.

KEEP: Parenting strategies and support for foster families.

LINDA OTTO
Program Manager/Founder

Grandmas2Go partners with local agencies to improve the well-being of the children in our communities and brings aging back into a celebratory light.

* Our Grandmas2Go serve as family coaches for new moms, single parents and young families. All volunteers are trained and undergo reference and background checks.

* Mentors bring skills, experience, wisdom and patience, while supporting the family in a non-judgmental way.

* We provide non-medical, physical, emotional, and informational support at no cost to the family.

* We help at-risk families break the cycles of abuse, neglect, violence, addiction, poverty and hopelessness that plague our communities.

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Children and parents receive intensive support as they work on resolving challenges they face. Trained and licensed therapists utilize a variety of therapeutic models, including Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP),  Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Attachment & Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) in their work with families.

ABC provides:

• Ten 1-hour weekly sessions in your home with structured topics to assist you and your children.
• Positive feedback during sessions using video clip review and commenting on live interactions.
• A celebration and a special video gift of you and your children upon completion.

courtney lucas
RELIEF NURSERY PROGRAM MANAGER

Our care coordinators regularly visit the homes of enrolled families to work with parents on strengthening the parent-child relationship and increasing attachment security. Care coordinators also work with parents to understand and support their child’s development, collaborating with parents to solve parenting challenges and helping children to be healthy and safe.

DOUG LOFDAHL
FARM & FOOD PROGRAM CO-MANAGER

KRISTIN GALABRUN
FARM & FOOD PROGRAM CO-MANAGER

The Farm and Food Program was designed to provide a supportive, sustainable solution to the food insecurity faced by families participating in Family Nurturing Center services. We address the importance of early childhood nutrition, remove barriers that prevent families from being able to afford local fresh foods, provide social settings for families to prepare and share meals together, and introduce adults and infants alike to the soil, insects, pollinators, old growth sequoia, barn cats, and volunteers that all contribute to the place and production of the FNC farm.

We increase families' access to enough food that provides adequate nutrition with the specific program goal: "for families to be physically nourished so that parents and children can be fully present in relationship with one another.

LOUISE HORN
RELIEF NURSERY PROGRAM MANAGER

The fundamental goal of our therapeutic early childhood classrooms is to enhance the social, emotional, and cognitive functioning of each child, and to support healing from traumatic life experiences. Therapeutic classroom teachers provide intentional, consistent, and thoughtful therapeutic responses, utilizing research-based interventions.

Through nurturing interactions in the classroom, children learn that adults can help them solve problems, regulate their feelings, and develop friendships with other children. Slowly but surely, children build resilience and restore developmental competencies. The philosophy and structure of the program are developed out of an understanding of attachment theory, brain development, the impact of trauma, and the constructivist learning theories of Piaget and Vygotsky.

Offered in Phoenix, Medford and Grants Pass.

Leslee Winner
ISRS PROGRAM MANAGER

Through referrals from Child Welfare, we provide short-term, intensive, supportive home-visitation services to families with children aged 0-5 identified as having a safety risk.

In-home services are geared toward meeting the following goals:

* Ensuring children’s safety

* Strengthening parental capacity

* Improving care taking and coping skills

* Supporting healthy and nurturing relationships

* Fostering physical, mental, and educational well-being

* Keeping children in the home or reducing the amount of time spent in community care

LOUISE HORN
RESPITE PROGRAM MANAGER

Families enrolled in our outreach or home-based services may reserve time in the Respite Childcare Program when they need short term childcare. Children receive special care in small groups led by trained and experienced caregivers.

Lynette hasse
DIRECTOR

We aim to bring comfort and self-worth to children in foster care.

We provide support to the invaluable families who care for them, and we come alongside those who are on the front lines of the crises in our county.

Our vision is to empower individual counties to occupy a third space that calls their community into partnership with the Department of Human Services (DHS). This statewide effort empowers local communities to come alongside their local DHS to love, care for and support children in foster care.

Snack Pantry and Clothing Closet: Provides an emergency outfit for children arriving into care.

My NeighOR: An emergency response initiative for ALL foster parents as a result of Covid-19.

Foster the Love: A gift campaign designed to show love and worth to children in foster care.

Welcome Boxes and Baby Bags: Carefully curated boxes of essential items of love and support for children ages 2-18.

The Neighborhood: Connects caring community volunteers with foster families in need of support.

Makeovers for Child Welfare: Community groups and individuals gather together to contribute their time and talents to remodeling projects for our dedicated individuals at DHS.

Learn more at everychildjackson.org. On facebook: EveryChildOregon

KATIE BELLAH
PEER PARENT MENTOR PROGRAM / LIFE PROGRAM MANAGER

The Parent Mentor Program provides peer mentoring to parents involved in the Child Welfare system whose children are currently in foster care. We connect parents with a mentor who has successfully navigated similar challenges to help support them through the permanency placement of their child(ren).

Our trained and licensed counselors work with parents and children in a group setting to build relationships and overcome challenges.

This intervention combines affordable housing assistance with voluntary support services to address the needs of homeless families raising young children.

Services are designed to build independent living and tenancy skills and connect people with community-based health care, treatment and employment services, while finding them a home they can call their own.

We work with property management companies to provide independent living opportunities for folks with little to no rental history or credit.

LOUISE HORN
RELIEF NURSERY PROGRAM MANAGER

The five essential areas of school readiness are: social and emotional development; approaches to learning; language and literacy; cognition and general knowledge; and physical development and health.

The fundamental goal of our therapeutic early childhood classrooms is to enhance the social, emotional, and cognitive functioning of each child, and to support healing from traumatic life experiences. Therapeutic classroom teachers provide intentional, consistent, and thoughtful therapeutic responses, utilizing research-based interventions. Through nurturing interactions in the classroom, children learn that adults can help them solve problems, regulate their feelings, and develop friendships with other children. Slowly but surely, children build resilience and restore developmental competencies. The philosophy and structure of the program are developed out of an understanding of attachment theory, brain development, the impact of trauma, and the constructivist learning theories of Piaget and Vygotsky.

DAWN DEL RIO
RELIEF NURSERY PROGRAM MANAGER

Our care coordinators regularly visit the homes of enrolled families to work with parents on strengthening the parent-child relationship and increasing attachment security. Care coordinators also work with parents to understand and support their child’s development, collaborating with parents to solve parenting challenges and helping children to be healthy and safe.