Whitington Homes and Services for Children and Families

Whitington provides a wide array of home-based Services to Families and Children in our community. These Services include the following: tutoring/literacy classes which allow individuals to achieve the education and success tools needed to become successful independent members of society. Clients receiving this service receive one on one and/or small group support in all academic areas by a highly qualified trained individual. Parent education is a strength based service that identifies areas of need and focuses on short and long term goals to reduce safety risks for Children. Whitington practitioners safely maintain Children in their homes, preserve, support, stabilize and promote the well-being of Families. They also help facilitate reunification of Children back Home. Visit supervision-traditional Services provides a neutral party to mediate visit times, locations, conditions, transportation for Children to and from the visit site, supervised visitation by a trained paraprofessional, teaching and modeling of parenting skills and child development expectations as requestd by dcs/po. Casework Services provided include, but are not limited to parenting education, money management, child development education, community referrals, and behavior modification. Supervised visitation is also provided to clients and their Children, both in and out of the Home. Therapeutic Services are provided by trained staff and utilize evidence based procedures such as dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive hehavioral therapy, trauma focused cognitive hehavioral therapy, cognitive processing therapy, motivational interviewing and play therapy. Whitington practitioners are available to their Families 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Truancy termination program allows Whitington to address delinquency issues the right way through preventative and restorative measures. The juvenile probation department has targeted truancy as one of the primary indicators that youth are at risk or are participating in risk taking behavior. Whitington Home and Services has chosen this model to implement for individuals out of a desire and mission to create opportunity for change for individuals, Families and communities. During 2023, 5895 hours of home-based family centered case management and therapy were provided to 422 clients.