Family Reunification Week honors parents who have successfully completed tasks necessary to be reunited with their children and is the week of May 7, 2012. The Coordinated Family Services (CFS) program and its partner program, the Family Reunification and Strengthening (FRS) program are holding a Donut Day event here at KID on May 9, 2012. Donut Day will celebrate Family Reunification Week and honor the families who have worked hard to be successful in the CFS/FRS programs. Attendees will be parents who have unsupervised visitation and are close to reunification or have already been reunified. We are honoring one single mother in particular who never missed a class or counseling session and worked closely with ChildNet to ensure her children’s various medical and educational needs were met from day one of the removal. She was an exemplary client and was reunified with her five children in a record time of less than three months.
CFS is a collaborative program with BARC and The Glass House, funded by ChildNet, to address multiple needs of families in a coordinated manner. The CFS program allows parents to access multiple services (substance abuse treatment and intervention, domestic violence counseling, parenting, and individual and family counseling) needed to fulfill their individual case plans, in one central location on the KID campus. All referrals for this “one-stop-shop of services” must come from ChildNet. The FRS program provides in-home services whose goal is to safely reunite families that have had children removed from the home as a result of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. This program works with families shortly after shelter status and has the goal of making sure that the home and family are safe and stable after reunification and that the reunification remains permanent. We are also inviting KID Staff to come to Donut Day, sponsored by Dunkin Donuts, to learn more about our programs and to meet and support the parents who have worked so hard. The event is on May 9, 2012 from 10:00am to 12:00pm in the Boardroom and the theme is Building Stronger Families.
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Family Reunification Week honors parents who have successfully completed tasks necessary to be reunited with their children and is the week of May 7, 2012. The Coordinated Family Services (CFS) program and its partner program, the Family Reunification and Strengthening (FRS) program are holding a Donut Day event here at KID on May 9, 2012. Donut Day will celebrate Family Reunification Week and honor the families who have worked hard to be successful in the CFS/FRS programs. Attendees will be parents who have unsupervised visitation and are close to reunification or have already been reunified. We are honoring one single mother in particular who never missed a class or counseling session and worked closely with ChildNet to ensure her children’s various medical and educational needs were met from day one of the removal. She was an exemplary client and was reunified with her five children in a record time of less than three months.
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