Stronger Families Services

The Stronger Family Services (SFS) program of MBCH Children and Family Ministries is designed to provide time-limited support and services to children and families experiencing factors or situations that put them at risk for separation. Services provided will be uniquely designed with each family to assist them in the challenging circumstances that put them at risk and will assist them in gaining the knowledge, skills, and resources that allow them to remain safely together as a family. SFS will utilize Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), an evidence-based trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection. SFS staff will be trained to intentionally make connections with the children and families they are serving, while also facilitating stronger connections within the family. SFS will also have a focus on connecting children and families to natural helpers in the community and thereby building the social & relational capital of families.

A range of preventive services, from further upstream family preservation and stabilization to more intensive family preservation services, may be provided by the SFS program. Believing that the best place for a child to grow up is in a family, our practice model is intended to effectively promote child and family permanency and well-being. Beginning with the end, or outcomes, in mind, our practice model design intentionally brings together the trauma-informed model of Trust-Based Relational Intervention and a solid network of local natural helpers from the local faith community that help to build the social relational capital of the children and families served.

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