evidence Based Practices

Attachment, Regulation and Competency, also known as ARC, is a comprehensive intervention framework for children and teens who have experienced trauma. The ultimate goal of ARC is to support an effective engagement in the world for children, adolescents, and caregivers so that instead of focusing on surviving, they can learn to be more future-oriented and empowered. 

Attachment 

•  Enhancing supports, skills, and relational resources for adult caregivers.

Regulation

• Supporting youth in developing an awareness of their feelings, body state and associated thoughts while also helping them understand their behaviors. 

Competency 

• Increasing an opportunity for choice and empowerment, as well as addressing the key factors associated with resilience in stress-impacted populations. 

Nurturing parenting is built up of prevention- intervention programs. These programs are utilized nationwide for the prevention and treatments of child abuse and neglect. The focus of these programs is to improve the lives of families ravaged by dysfunction.  

• A family-based intervention where parents, along with their children, learn similar knowledge and skills for improving the quality of their lives. 
• A flexible structure of programs that allows facilitators to ensure that the specific needs of the families are being met. 
•   Parents and children have fun as a family, they learn how to play games and sing songs.

Building on family strengths to meet children's needs. A relationship-based, trauma-informed, empowering practice, that is focused on supporting parents whose children have been removed or are at risk of having their children removed. 

• Visit Coaches provide training and positive guidance to family members and their children. 
• During a visit coaching session, a visit coach focuses on helping parents recognize and respond to their child's unmet needs. 
• Visits are typically 60 to 90 minutes and focus on helping parents take charge of the visits in anticipation of reunification, as well as incorporate time to touch base with parents both before and after the visit. 

Supervised Visitation Network, also known as SVN, is a network of agencies and individuals from attorneys to social workers to therapists, who are interested in ensuring that children can have a safe, conflict-free environment to continue that connection with their parents after removal.