The representatives listed below made their presentation:
Family Service Association at 5800 N. Nebraska- offers counseling to families and children, education on anger management, and crisis intervention services. Confidential assessment, counseling and psychotherapy services are available. FSA offers services in the middle schools- to students and parents. They receive referrals from the Spring and DCF. Fees are on a sliding scale.
Contact: Susan Ross sross@familyserviceassn.org
DACCO offers Strengthening Families (science based) for families, parents and children. Children are counseled in school and families are visited in their homes. Counselors offer families advice on setting rules, structure, and other parenting skills. Another program is Parenting Wisely. The focus is on children at risk of substance abuse or those who have substance abusing parents. Parenting Wisely utilizes a lap top computer with lessons on parenting. Family situations are given and the parent chooses a solution.Specialists help families strengthen communication and problem solving skills. The target age for youth in these programs is 5 to 9. This program is offered at Seminole Elementary.
Contact: Jolene de la Gardelle 984-0909, #483 jolened@dacco.org
Other DACCO programs include: Life Skills Training a prevention program which targets youth ages 12 - 15 and New Directions, which provides counseling services to middle and high school students in Hillsborough County. Counselors receive referrals from teachers, parents, peers or self referral. (There is not a counselor currently at Memorial Middle or Hillsborough High). For info on these programs, contact Tammy Ross at tammyr@dacco.org.
St. Joseph's Hospital Children's Advocacy Center offers prevention programs and classes to help prevent children from utilizing Emergency Room services. Topics include prevention of alcohol and drug use, STDs, drowning, injuries, etc. The target is children- generally ages 10 to 12 and their parents. CAC provides after school, evening and summer classes. Programs are currently offered at: Seminole Heights Baptist Church, Broward Elementary, and the Centre for Girls. They offer a parent support group at the Centre for Girls. The CAC programs include classes for children and parents in different rooms at the same time, and offer food, books, tickets to family activities and other incentives.
Contact: Melanie Hall melanie.hall@baycare.org
We had a representative for Hillsborough High School, Sylvia Lufria, an intervention specialist. Ms. Lufria says that Hillsborough HS has an active PTSA and that students in the IB program may volunteer to help with CTC.
Sylvia's e-mail sylvia.lufria@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Kay Doughty made a presentation earlier in the day to the USF Collaborative/ Resiliency Task Force and asked if any USF students or interns might be available to help with CTC.
We are collecting information on prevention programs offered to children in parents in the Seminole Heights and Sulfur Springs neighborhoods. Also we want to know about programs not currently offered in these neighborhoods, but they could be in the future. A notebook of flyers and descriptions of the programs and resources will be organized. Then we will create a resource booklet for parents.
The group will be deciding on goals and a timeline to achieve them. Also, the $5,000 CTC minigrant applications will be distributed at the January 27th training.
Thank you,
Ellen Snelling
CTC Implementation Coordinator
Hillsborough County Anti Drug Alliance
www.hcada.com
By Ellen Snelling
Family Service Association at 5800 N. Nebraska- offers counseling to families and children, education on anger management, and crisis intervention services. Confidential assessment, counseling and psychotherapy services are available. FSA offers services in the middle schools- to students and parents. They receive referrals from the Spring and DCF. Fees are on a sliding scale.
Contact: Susan Ross sross@familyserviceassn.org
DACCO offers Strengthening Families (science based) for families, parents and children. Children are counseled in school and families are visited in their homes. Counselors offer families advice on setting rules, structure, and other parenting skills. Another program is Parenting Wisely. The focus is on children at risk of substance abuse or those who have substance abusing parents. Parenting Wisely utilizes a lap top computer with lessons on parenting. Family situations are given and the parent chooses a solution.Specialists help families strengthen communication and problem solving skills. The target age for youth in these programs is 5 to 9. This program is offered at Seminole Elementary.
Contact: Jolene de la Gardelle 984-0909, #483 jolened@dacco.org
Other DACCO programs include: Life Skills Training a prevention program which targets youth ages 12 - 15 and New Directions, which provides counseling services to middle and high school students in Hillsborough County. Counselors receive referrals from teachers, parents, peers or self referral. (There is not a counselor currently at Memorial Middle or Hillsborough High). For info on these programs, contact Tammy Ross at tammyr@dacco.org.
St. Joseph's Hospital Children's Advocacy Center offers prevention programs and classes to help prevent children from utilizing Emergency Room services. Topics include prevention of alcohol and drug use, STDs, drowning, injuries, etc. The target is children- generally ages 10 to 12 and their parents. CAC provides after school, evening and summer classes. Programs are currently offered at: Seminole Heights Baptist Church, Broward Elementary, and the Centre for Girls. They offer a parent support group at the Centre for Girls. The CAC programs include classes for children and parents in different rooms at the same time, and offer food, books, tickets to family activities and other incentives.
Contact: Melanie Hall melanie.hall@baycare.org
We had a representative for Hillsborough High School, Sylvia Lufria, an intervention specialist. Ms. Lufria says that Hillsborough HS has an active PTSA and that students in the IB program may volunteer to help with CTC.
Sylvia's e-mail sylvia.lufria@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Kay Doughty made a presentation earlier in the day to the USF Collaborative/ Resiliency Task Force and asked if any USF students or interns might be available to help with CTC.
We are collecting information on prevention programs offered to children in parents in the Seminole Heights and Sulfur Springs neighborhoods. Also we want to know about programs not currently offered in these neighborhoods, but they could be in the future. A notebook of flyers and descriptions of the programs and resources will be organized. Then we will create a resource booklet for parents.
The group will be deciding on goals and a timeline to achieve them. Also, the $5,000 CTC minigrant applications will be distributed at the January 27th training.
Thank you,
Ellen Snelling
CTC Implementation Coordinator
Hillsborough County Anti Drug Alliance
www.hcada.com
By Ellen Snelling
