Family Development
Family Development Program
The Family Development Program is a seamless array of high quality, coordinated family development services including: intake and screening; comprehensive assessment; effective system of goal setting for families with reportable outcome measures; coordination of community services; advocacy; ongoing monitoring and assessment and uniform termination and discharge procedures.
The Family Development Director coordinates with Family Advocates and their Leaders to identify the individual and group training needs of family advocate staff.
The following components are included in the Family Development Program:
-Senior Services Team
-Head Start Family Advocates
-Social Services/Safety Net Family Advocates
-Clinical Services for Youth staff serving Newport County
-Heating and Energy Family Advocates
-Health Center Family Advocates
-Youth Success Advocates
For further information please contact:
Seena S. Franklin
Family Development Director
at (401) 437-0006, x150
Family Service Collaboration Project
A collaboration with the Newport School District
The goal of the Family Service Collaboration Project is to build family, school and community partnerships that support children's learning and adjustments to school. There are four Family Service Coordinators employed by East Bay Community Action Program that are housed at the following elementary schools:
Newport Public Schools:
• Coggeshall Elementary School
• Cranston Calvert Elementary School
• Sullivan Elementary School
• Underwood Elementary School
Family Service Coordinators offer home visiting, promotion of activities to enhance family literacy and coordination of local social services. In addition, Family Service Coordinators provide activities to help insure that children and families have a smooth transition from the preschool years to the early elementary grades and from the elementary grades to middle school.
For further information on the Family Service Collaboration Project,
please contact:
Nicole Silvia, LCSW
Underwood School
90 Harrison Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Telephone: (401) 846-9590
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