Strengthen Families

At the Center, we work to strengthen families through a range of services including parent and child assessments, home visits with families at risk for abuse and neglect (including teen parents and parents of newborns), a variety of parent education classes and support groups for parents (e.g., teen parent groups in the Moore and Norman Public Schools), child/parent relationship therapy, mediation, supervised visits and exchanges, temporary foster care for families in crisis, and a public Baby Pantry for low-income families in need of important resources for their young children.

In 2010, 1,331 clients received these services and over 30,000 diapers and 350 cans of formula were distributed to over 1,000 additional people.  At the Center we collect and report outcome data on all of our services.  For instance, in 2010, 74% of the families receiving Child Parent Relationship Therapy demonstrated improved parent-child interactions.