Task 1
The Up Center Healthy Families and Parents as Teachers
Jasmine Capers
Old Dominion University HMSV 440W
The Up Center
Agency Information
The Up Center provides an ample amount of resources to its community. It helps the surrounding communities with resources for children, families, people in crisis, people with disabilities, and military and veteran families. The program that will be evaluated is Healthy Families and Parent as Teachers. Both programs are a free home visitation style program for families and provide developmental screening, referrals to community resources, family connection opportunities, support during pregnancy and many more areas of support. Healthy families require the family to live in the city of Norfolk, be pregnant or have a three month or younger baby, and provides help for one child until the child turns five. Parents as Teachers requires families to live in the city of Norfolk or Portsmouth, has a child four years of age or younger at enrollment, and provides help for every child younger than five within the household. The family may remain in the program until the last child enters kindergarten.
Contact was made with Rosalind Hopkins, the Prevention Services Supervisor at The Up Center and she was informed of the needs of this course’s evaluation. When a counselor has the time available along with a willing client to be observed and interviewed a “shadow” will be set up. The Up Center that is being evaluated is located in Portsmouth, VA, with a mission to protect children and empower people in crisis
Evaluator Reasoning
Healthy Families and Parents as Teachers was an area of interest because it offers help for families with small children. It offers the chance for someone to enter the home with an unbiased mindset and set of eyes to help observe and evaluate your family dynamic along with offering ways to help the families little ones and caregivers. The agency relates to my future personal and professional goals by offering the help to the family that has children. By providing the evaluation for this program, I am also allowing myself a front row seat to an opportunity to work with the families in need. I would like to learn new affective ways to help a family in crisis and a family that just needs resources. The Up Center offers so many resources to their community and it is like a one stop shop that I can explore and seek information in different areas.
The Up Center’s Parents as Teachers
Jasmine Capers
Old Dominion University HMSV 440W
The Up Center
Agency Information
The Up Center provides an ample amount of resources to its community. It helps the surrounding communities with resources for children, families, people in crisis, people with disabilities, and military and veteran families. The program that will be evaluated is Parent as Teachers. Both programs are a free home visitation style program for families and provide developmental screening, referrals to community resources, family connection opportunities, support during pregnancy and many more areas of support. Parents as Teachers requires families to live in the city of Norfolk or Portsmouth, has a child four years of age or younger at enrollment, and provides help for every child younger than five within the household. The family may remain in the program until the last child enters kindergarten.
Contact was made with Rosalind Hopkins, the Prevention Services Supervisor at The Up Center and she was informed of the needs of this course’s evaluation. When a counselor has the time available along with a willing client to be observed and interviewed a “shadow” will be set up. The Up Center that is being evaluated is located in Portsmouth, VA, with a mission to protect children and empower people in crisis
Evaluator Reasoning
Parents as Teachers was an area of interest because it offers help for families with small children. It offers the chance for someone to enter the home with an unbiased mindset and set of eyes to help observe and evaluate your family dynamic along with offering ways to help the families little ones and caregivers. The agency relates to my future personal and professional goals by offering the help to the family that has children. By providing the evaluation for this program, I am also allowing myself a front row seat to an opportunity to work with the families in need. I would like to learn new affective ways to help a family in crisis and a family that just needs resources. The Up Center offers so many resources to their community and it is like a one stop shop that I can explore and seek information in different areas.