Family Support Services

Sharing skills and resources to improve family’s futures.

What are Family Support Programs?

The Family Support Programs have professionally trained staff to work with clients through our evidence-based home visiting programs.  We meet families’ individual needs assisting them to develop knowledge, skills and resources in order to improve their family’s futures.  We meet them where they are and offer a multi-generational approach helping their family with important topics such as:

    • Prenatal and infant care
    • Parenting and Co-Parenting education
    • Infant growth and child development
    • Childcare and preschool services
    • Ages and Stages Developmental Screenings
    • Growing Great Kids
    • Positive Parenting Program Curriculum
    • Budgeting skills to increase financial awareness and stability
    • Positive discipline
    • Life and stress management
    • Community Resources

The Family Resource Center offers programs that are voluntary and confidential with the mission to build healthier families and stronger communities in the North Country of New Hampshire.

Healthy Families America

HFA is a nationally recognized program for Prenatal to Age 3 focusing on prenatal care, successful birth and infant weight, parent-child interaction, strong relationships and optimal childhood development outcomes.

The HFA program:

  • Improves parenting attitudes
  • Increases knowledge of child development
  • Supports a quality home environment
  • Promotes positive parent-child interaction
  • Improves family health
  • Prevents child abuse and neglect

VROOM

New science tells us that our children’s first years are when they develop the foundation for all future learning. Every time we connect with them, it’s not just their eyes that light up—it’s their brains too. In these moments, half a million neurons fire at once, taking in all the things we say and do. We can’t see it happening, but it’s all there, all at work. That’s why  is here.

 turns shared moments into brain building moments. Whether it’s mealtime, bathtime, or anytime in between, there are always ways to nurture our children’s growing minds.

We encourage all parents of all walks of life to check out some of the tools and ideas here.

Kinship Navigator Program

In New Hampshire and across the United States, grandparents and other relatives play a critical role in the prevention of unnecessary entries into foster care. The Kinship Navigator Program links grandparents and other relative caregivers, both inside and outside of the formal child welfare system, to the services and supports specific to their families’ needs. Kinship Navigators provide emotional support, education, and guidance to relative caregivers, and offer information, referral, and follow up services to promote independence and enhance the well-being of the families they serve.

For more information call Kat Morris at 603-466-5190 ext 317, text 723-4057 or email familysupport@frc123.org

 

Positive Solutions for Families

We provide a Parenting Workshop to offer tips through effective evidence-based strategies to help with communication.
 
  • Session 1: Making a Connection — bonding, relating, making it happen, play, development
  • Session 2: Making it Happen – developing friendship skills in children
  • Session 3: Why do children do what they do? Teach me what to do- you as your child’s teacher
  • Session 4: Teach Me What to Do – social emotional development in children
  • Session 5: Facing the Challenges Part 1: Teaching encouragement, managing behavior with positive logical consequences
  • Session 6: Facing the Challenges Part 2: Prevention, routines, behavior, your new responses
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Groups are offered on an on-going basis.  For more information, call us at 466-5190 ext 317, text us at 723-4057 or email familysupport@frc123.org

Watch Me Grow

  • The Family Resource Center at Gorham is part of a collaborative effort to provide developmental screening to all children ages 0-5 in the state of New Hampshire. This program is called Watch Me Grow.
  • As part of Watch Me Grow, The FRC uses the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) to help parents learn about and prepare for the different stages of a child’s development and to aid in assessing the ongoing development of your child.
  • Using the ASQ, a series of questions are asked of parents about their child. The ASQ answer sheet is completed by the FRC  home visitor and the results are shared with parents. If there are concerns in a particular area of the child’s development, parents may be referred to the child’s pediatrician for follow up, or a repeat screening at a later date may be recommended.
  • Below is a link to the screenings you can do at home with your children: ASQ Online Assessment
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Toddler Time 

where parents and toddlers come together to play, learn new parenting tips and connect with one another.

  • Tuesday mornings from 10:00 to 11:30 am for families with children ages 0-5 at the Gorham Recreation Department
  • Friday mornings from 10:00 to 11:30 am for families with children ages 0-5 at The Family Resource Center in Berlin (117 Main St.)
  • FMI call 466-5190 ext. 31
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Children in the Middle 

The Children in the Middle  program is to help parents who are separated or divorced by teaching them skills that:

  • Engage parents in recognizing the effects on children caught in the middle of parental problems and conflicts
  • Help parents to learn new skills and apply them to their own situations
  • Encourage parents to let their children know that the children’s reactions to being caught in the middle are normal and the children should give parents feedback when problems are occuring
  • Educate parents on how to reduce the main stressors of divorce and separation on children
  • This course is completed on-line and there is a fee for this program
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Family Support Referral Form

Are you looking to refer a family to FRC programs or services?

For more information on our Family Support Programs please call us at 466-5190 ext. 317, text  723-4057 or email familysupport@frc123.org