VALLEY COUNSELING CENTER IS ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS!!!
VALLEY COUNSELING CENTER IS ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS!!!
Trauma informed professionals provide services to support caregivers and the family with maintaining a healthy and safe home environment to prevent the removal of their children from the home. Including evidenced based strategies, this service encompasses parenting education including education on developmental milestones, child safety, problem solving techniques, behavior management, positive family interactions, budgeting, and daily functioning skills. Another aspect of this services is helping the family establish and maintain stability for family preservation. This service often takes place in the home.
Individualized educational sessions are tailored to support parents/caregivers with the children's and family's needs while improving overall parenting skills and family functioning. This service covers areas of child development, behavior management and learning how to navigate community resources. Parent education can be utilized when working towards reunification or when parents need additional parenting support in the home. This service can also include co-parenting education. Valley Family Support Services has Supreme Court of Virginia approved parent educators on staff.
Sight and sound supervision with a Family Educational Specialist. Visits can occur in the office, community, or in the home but is dependent on the court order. Also, the frequency, and duration of visits are also dependent upon the court order.
Interactive Parenting Support services provide visitation opportunities for children and parents. This service encourages positive and active interactions between parents and children while providing modeling and educational interventions as needed in the visit setting. Visits may take place in the home, VFSS office, or community setting. Different levels of supervision may be offered to meet the needs of the family.
The youth mentoring service provides an opportunity for a positive mentoring relationship to improve the overall well-being of the youth. A mentor is a supportive role model to help youth across multiple life areas. Mentors help the mentee navigate through current peer culture while working on social emotional learning. This service may include the development of independent living skills.
This service focuses on supporting the child’s establishment of permanency when transitioning placements. Support of Placement Transition was designed to aid families in navigating daily functioning before and/or after custody is transferred to the caregiver(s). The service encompasses transition planning, parent education, community connections and stability support. It addresses the needs of the family to preserve the child’s placement within the caregiver’s custody. These specific services work with not only the caregivers but also the child as both adjust and process the transition of the placement.
To preserve the current foster care placement to prevent multiple placements by supporting the child(ren) and foster families.
This educational services supports adopted children that are struggling with behaviors in the adoptive home, with the purpose to preserve placement.
This educational service focuses on supporting caregivers in learning how to parent together to address their children's behaviors and development while learning appropriate communication skills.
This class us taught by a Virignia Supreme Court trained educator with an approved curriculum to support caregivers that are navigating through the difficulties of co-parenting in separate homes. Class participants will learn about child development and how dfficult situations can impact social and emotional development, positive communication strategies and tools, and how to support transitions to the other home.
This educational class is designed for school-aged children and adolescents that are learning to self-regulate strong emotions. The purpose is to support positive social skills. The class uses The Zones of Regulation curriculum.
This educational group is designed to introduce topics that address the global development of children and positive parenting techniques. This class utilizes the Incredible Years curriculum.
Valley Family Support Services LLC
Physical Address: 963 Reservoir Street Suite B Harrisonburg, VA 22801 Mailing address: PO Box 27 Port Republic, VA 24471