Parent Help Center

2003

This project partnered an adoption agency with eight churches in the city of Detroit to build and sustain parenting help centers within faith communities to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect, and to expand community-based resources and services accessible to kinship families. Through the use of a logic model, the project involved foster, adopted and kinship-placed children in faith community activities, trained parents, provided crisis in-home services for kinship families and their children, increased kinship adoptions, advocated for social policies and funding to support kinship families, and provided training in collaboration with FIA to other agencies regarding kinship care. Faith communities were strengthened in their capacity to help families parent effectively, support services and adoptions increased, and training and services were made accessible to meet the needs of families in the community.

Adoption; kinship; faith-based

Performing Technical Assistance and/or Training, Performing Research or Evaluation

Education & Early Intervention, Child Care-Related Activities, Health-Related Activities, Quality of Life, Other

Family Members/Caregivers, General Public

Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Geographic Areas, Urban

Single-County

N/A