Program areas at The Village Family Service Center
COUNSELING: The Village provides counseling services to thousands of individuals, families and couples every year. This includes traditional talk therapy, play-based therapy models such as Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), attachment therapy for traumatized children, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for adults and kids dealing with trauma. Our professional counselors provide groups and classes that teach coping skills for depression, anxiety, anger management, and other issues, including an Intensive Outpatient Program for mental health. Counseling services may be offered in home, school, office, and community settings as well as online.Family Centered Engagement and Family Group Decision Making services bring together families and service providers to develop plans that address the safety and wellbeing of children and reduce the number of children in foster care.
FIRST STEP RECOVERY - provides outpatient treatment for substance use disorders.
VILLAGE BUSINESS INSTITUTE (VBI): VBI provides worksite-based programs and products, including employee assistance programs, human resource consultation, executive coaching, career transition, organizational consulting, crisis planning, and workplace mediation. More than 60,000 employees are covered by a Village EAP.
Other program services are generated through the provision of adoption services, educational services about the opportunities, strengths and risks of adoption; Big Brothers Big Sister mentoring program that matches carefully screened adult volunteers with children, ages 6-14 years, who have special needs for personal growth and development. Supportive, one-to-one mentoring defends the potential of the child, helping to build self-confidence and self-esteem in the child, as volunteers and kids spend time together; and financial counseling, including budgeting advice, a debt management program, credit report reading service, and financial coaching.