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Child Developmental Program
Parental substance abuse often precipitates negative consequences for dependent children. Health and behavioral/school problems increase, as does criminal involvement and propensity for a substance addiction problem of their own. Additionally, many of the children enter our program with either developmental deficits or on the borderline for their age group. The STOP THE CYCLE program focuses on helping families in crisis restore the family to health and independence, giving both the women and their children the best chance to succeed in life. To that end, we provide the following services to increase the bond between mother and child while helping these children to catch up or exceed their developmental milestones:
- An in-depth assessment is provided for each child that enters the program.
- SBA staff creates an individualized intervention program to create a pathway for healthy bonding between mother and child and improvement in developmental milestones.
- A developmental intervention specialist works individually and in groups with the mothers to improve the children’s developmental milestones.
- Mothers are also taught parenting skills that will help them parent their children successfully to adulthood.
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