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Family Services , Human Services

Family help is a juvenile justice prevention program designed to assist families who have a child that is a runaway, truant, and/or ungovernable or at-risk of these behaviors. Services are aimed at preventing youth from entering the child welfare and/or the juvenile justice system by providing an array of services to strengthen the family. Services are available to families residing in pasco, hernando, citrus, sumter, polk, highlands, and hardee counties. substance abuse and mental health programs include caring schools community ( and project yes/casa. Caring schools community creates a caring school environment characterized by kind and supportive relationships and collaboration amoung students, staff and parents. The csc model is consistent with reasearch-based practices for increasing student achievement. By creating a csc, the program seeks to promote pro-social values, increase academic motivation and achievement, and prevent drug use, viol community-based care programs include foster care case management,adoption case management and youth crisis shelter. Foster care case managers work with families and caregivers to access and coordinate services that are available and appropriate to the child's situation. Service needs for a child in the home with a parent may vary greatly from the needs of a child that has been removed from a parent or caregiver. Case managers coordinate the delivery of community services to families and caregiv prevention & diversion programs include community partnership schools established through a partnership among the organization, district school board of pasco county, and the a partnership among the organization, district school board of pasco county, and the a partnership among the organization, district school board of pasco county, and the a partnership among the organization, district school board of pasco county, and the a partnership among the organization, district school board of pasco c