Preventive Services and Family Preservation Program
thru: Hillside
• Helps prevent a child’s placement out of the family home or ensure the successful return of a child to the family home from an out-of-home placement.
• Helps families alleviate the immediate crisis and improve family functioning so that the risk of placement or re-placement is reduced. Includes:
- Case management
- Individual and family therapy (short-term and home-based)
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Anger management
- Conflict resolution skills
- Self Sufficiency skills
- Communication skills
- Crisis Intervention
Cultural Competency
Language Access
Eligibility: Birth to age seventeen.
Application Process: Call for information, referrals received through DSS preventive unit.
Required Documentation: Call for information.
Fees: None for most services.
Coverage Note: Monroe, Erie, and Onondaga Counties.
Cultural Competency: Cultural competency, diversity, equity, and inclusion training for staff
Languages: American Sign Language, Spanish- Staff provides in-person interpreter, Language line, Materials/literature in language indicated
