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Legacy

Legacy, Family Empowerment Program, provides services that are family-focused and community-based. Program services are designed to assist families as they strive to cope with significant stresses or problems that interfere with parents' ability to nurture and care for their children. The primary goal of the Legacy program is to provide a wide array of psychosocial support and advocacy services to assist with maintaining children in families, or to assist with reunification efforts, whenever this can safely occur. Legacy services can work closely and in partnership with treatment services such as outpatient or family based behavioral health services. 

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Legacy Empowerment Coaches are trained professionals with both experience and training specifically designed to address the wide array of needs that typically present in families impacted by circumstances that cause them to be involved in the child welfare system. 

Eligibility

Services are referred by Children and Youth Services, Juvenile Probation Office and Domestic Relations.

Service Components

Legacy is comprised of three primary service components:

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  • Assessment/Service Planning

  • Advocacy/Case Management

  • Parenting Support and Education

Program Goals

Legacy services are designed to:

 

  • Promote positive parent-child bonding and relationships

  • Increase parenting strategies and skills

  • Increase capacity of the caregiver to recognize and sensitively respond to their child's needs

  • Improve access to services designed to address family needs

  • Expand the family support system through increased parental involvement in the community

  • Promote optimal child health and development

  • Enhance parental self sufficiency

  • Improve social competencies in children

  • Reduce the incidence and reoccurrence of abuse or ongoing neglect

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