Early Intervention - Prevention

Early Intervention Services support at-risk families by providing both specialized parenting education programs and organized, informal, networks that connect parents facing similar challenges. Many of the children involved in CTH Early Intervention Services are vulnerable, troubled and at-risk; however, many of their difficulties are the result of underdeveloped parenting skills. Through CTH, parents learn skills that are essential to keeping families together. These include skills such as learning how to manage conflict and how to establish achievable family goals that will contribute to the overall stability of the family unit.

Family Support Workers provide assistance, coaching and mentoring throughout this learning process. This increases the likelihood that at-risk families will become successful at setting goals, at achieving those goals in the short term and then maintain a goal-orientation into the future. This increases the likelihood they will stay together.

Families that successfully engage with Early Intervention Services reduce their reliance upon police services, walk-in medical clinics, medical interventions as a result of mental health problems, in-school counseling and other counseling services.