Families sometimes struggle to make ends meet.
Within this environment, children can miss out on essential engagement and experiences.
Families Plus focuses on long-term engagement for life long success.
We know there is no quick fix. At Families Plus we enroll children into our program that need counseling and behavioral support who often come from families that are struggling. Once enrolled, a mental health care professional is provided for each child in order to guide health care and coordinate a team of volunteers using a wraparound approach. By working with physicians, dental health care professionals, teachers, coaches, by utilizing evidence based methods, each therapist can evaluate the child's needs and assist the parents to ensure no health care needs go unmet. By pairing children with mentoring families in the community and supporting skill building activities we ensure children get positive, influential role models. We link each child to community skill-building, enrichment activities. Families Plus strives to instill a sense of community, encouraging youth in our program to actively participate through outreach and volunteering. , We diligently evaluate our processes and methods, to gain insight on how we can better provide the utmost support needed per every family & child.
At Families Plus we know there is no exact formula for helping a child succeed.
We listen to our family’s needs and we help them find the resources in the community to help each child succeed in the long-term. Learn more about how our wraparound program works.
We strive to be a leader in Delta County for youth and community health.
We strive to encourage a healthier Delta County. Whether it's partnering with organizations to increase access to health care, sharing educational programs for youth substance use prevention, or obtaining mental first aid certification; we understand our impact extends further to those within the community, when we stand united. It truly takes a village to raise a child and we encourage the support of everyone within Delta County in order to do so.
Learn more about our substance abuse prevention.
Within this environment, children can miss out on essential engagement and experiences.
Families Plus focuses on long-term engagement for life long success.
We know there is no quick fix. At Families Plus we enroll children into our program that need counseling and behavioral support who often come from families that are struggling. Once enrolled, a mental health care professional is provided for each child in order to guide health care and coordinate a team of volunteers using a wraparound approach. By working with physicians, dental health care professionals, teachers, coaches, by utilizing evidence based methods, each therapist can evaluate the child's needs and assist the parents to ensure no health care needs go unmet. By pairing children with mentoring families in the community and supporting skill building activities we ensure children get positive, influential role models. We link each child to community skill-building, enrichment activities. Families Plus strives to instill a sense of community, encouraging youth in our program to actively participate through outreach and volunteering. , We diligently evaluate our processes and methods, to gain insight on how we can better provide the utmost support needed per every family & child.
At Families Plus we know there is no exact formula for helping a child succeed.
We listen to our family’s needs and we help them find the resources in the community to help each child succeed in the long-term. Learn more about how our wraparound program works.
We strive to be a leader in Delta County for youth and community health.
We strive to encourage a healthier Delta County. Whether it's partnering with organizations to increase access to health care, sharing educational programs for youth substance use prevention, or obtaining mental first aid certification; we understand our impact extends further to those within the community, when we stand united. It truly takes a village to raise a child and we encourage the support of everyone within Delta County in order to do so.
Learn more about our substance abuse prevention.
OUR VISION: Every child enters adulthood healthy (mentally and physically) with a high school diploma, avoidance of teen-pregnancy, and with no legal or substance abuse prevalent.
OUR MISSION: Families Plus supports children with an opportunity to become healthy, self-sufficient and resilient adults.
OUR VALUES:
OUR MISSION: Families Plus supports children with an opportunity to become healthy, self-sufficient and resilient adults.
OUR VALUES:
- All kids can be engaged and helped.
- To best support a child, a tailored array of services must be available.
- Providing healthy environments for children to grow within requires consistent, long-term commitments.
- Communication among the Families Plus network is always open and inclusive.
- All are worthy of respect and are treated with respect.
- Confidentiality is maintained while legality is honored.
- Families Plus is volunteer driven.
- All participants need and should experience, appreciation.
History of Our Program
The Families Plus concept was developed in 1998 by Dr. Brenda Holland, a practicing clinical psychologist in Delta County. Dr. Holland engaged community professionals and concerned citizens to address a need for under served youth in Delta County, living in unhealthy and often chaotic environments. From this group, a new type of community-based program for children was initiated. The family-as-mentor idea had not been implemented prior. Each mentoring family would make a commitment to a child or children with the aid of a mental health care professional and with parent partners. Parent partners cater to the needs of family members surrounding these children providing insight to resources and opportunities available within our community and to lend a helping hand when needed.
This new family mentoring idea caught on quickly. Within five years, almost thirty-five children in Delta County had been matched with their long-term mentoring families and lives of many have been impacted in the process.
In 2019, Families Plus lends a helping hand to over eighty children in the Delta County community. Providing resources to health care providers, behavioral, mental health, and substance use training and by offering skill-building activities and programs to children to explore possible areas of interests, Families Plus strives to keep the minds of youth actively engaged and constantly exploring endless opportunity.
This new family mentoring idea caught on quickly. Within five years, almost thirty-five children in Delta County had been matched with their long-term mentoring families and lives of many have been impacted in the process.
In 2019, Families Plus lends a helping hand to over eighty children in the Delta County community. Providing resources to health care providers, behavioral, mental health, and substance use training and by offering skill-building activities and programs to children to explore possible areas of interests, Families Plus strives to keep the minds of youth actively engaged and constantly exploring endless opportunity.