SERVICES IN LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA
Assessment - Parenting/Family Functioning
MOCDC provides a thorough family evaluation to assess the individual and family strengths and goals. Qualified clinicians use the AAPI-2 (Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory) as its primary assessment tool which is designed to assess the parenting and child rearing attitudes of adult and adolescent parent and pre-parent populations . MOCDC's goal is to develop a treatment plan for the family that will meet the requirements of the referral source and the courts, when appropriate.
Diagnostic and Evaluation
MOCDC's contracts with licensed clinical psychologists to provide more specialized diagnostic evaluations and other evaluative testing for parents, other family members and children due to the intervention of Child Protective Services because of alleged physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or neglect and /or the removal of children from the care and control of their parents. Requested services may include: psychological evaluation, drug/alcohol testing, Minnesota Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), or other testing instruments.
Home Based Therapy
Licensed Clinicians provide family and/or individual structured, goal-oriented, time limited therapy in the natural environment of families who need assistance recovering from physical, sexual, emotional abuse, and neglect. Other issues, including substance abuse, mental illness, personality/behavior disorder, developmental disability, dysfunctional family or origin, and current family dysfunction may be addressed in the course of treating the abuse/neglect.
Home Based Casework
Home Based Caseworkers provide service for multi-problem and/or dysfunctional families in the family's home. Services can include community referrals and follow-up, meal planning/preparation, transportation, conflict management and supervised visitation. Services also include 24-hour crisis intervention seven days a week.
Homemaker
Homemakers/Parent Aids provide assistance and support for parents
who are unable to approximately fulfill parenting and/or
homemaking functions. Our staff assists the family through
advocating, teaching, demonstrating, monitoring, and/or role
modeling new, appropriate skills.
Independent Living
We provide independent living (IL) services that consist of a
series of developmental activities that provide opportunities for
young people to gain the skills required to live healthy,
productive, and responsible lives as self-sufficient adults based on
the Ansell Casey Life Skills Assessment following the youth’s
referral for services. Youth receiving IL services directly
participate in designing their program activities, accept personal
responsibility for achieving independence, and have opportunities to
learn from experiences/failures.
Intensive Home Based Family
Preservation and Reunification
Intensive Home Based Family Preservation services provide intensive
services that remove the risk of harm to the child instead of
removing the child. The child's safety is ensured through
small caseloads, program intensity, and 24-hour service
availability. Intensive Home-Based Family Reunification
services are short-term, intensive home based services designated to
reunite families in which children are like to remain in out-of-home
placement for longer than 6-months without intervention. T
Parent Education
Trained parent educators provide structured, parenting skill development tools to help assist parents, who children are "at risk" or have been abused or neglected, in the lifelong task disciplining, understanding, and loving their children. Parent education is provided in a group setting unless their are those instances where a family is unable to function appropriately or understand the material provided in the group setting. MOCDC uses the Systematic Training for Effective Parenting curriculum for its group material.
Counseling
MOCDC provides individual, family and group therapy counseling. Professional staff provides individual, group, and/or family counseling at a specified(regularly scheduled) time for a limited amount of time and are provided face to face in the counselor/therapists office. Emphasis is placed on conflict resolution, support systems, interpersonal relationships and other issues relating to those recovering from abuse and/or neglect. Group topics include: women empowerment, anger management and social skills development
Substance Abuse Assessment, Monitoring, and Treatment
Substance abuse negatively affects a parent's social, emotional and physical functioning which significantly poses a risk to child development. Specialized Substance Abuse Therapists provide services that specifically addresses these issues. The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) is used as a standardized assessment tool to effectively began treatment that addresses the individual's drug use and any associated medical, social, psychological, vocational, or legal problems. Treatment may include drug testing, individual and/or group counseling, home based therapy, parenting education and psychological evaluation.
Supervised Visitation and
Monitored Exchange
Our "Bridging the Gap Family Access Center" for Supervised
Visitation and Monitored Exchange are designed to assure that a
child can have a safe contact with an absent parent without having
to be put in the middle of the parents' conflict or other problems.
It is the child's need that is paramount in making any decisions
regarding the need for such supervision. However, there are
also some significant benefits to parents. It is our hope that
no one will look upon supervised visitation or monitored exchange as
a negative or stigmatized service. It is a tool that can help
families as they go through difficult and/or transitional times.
SERVICES IN ELKHART COUNT, INDIANA
Home Based Therapy
Licensed Clinicians provide family and/or individual structured, goal-oriented, time limited therapy in the natural environment of families who need assistance recovering from physical, sexual, emotional abuse, and neglect. Other issues, including substance abuse, mental illness, personality/behavior disorder, developmental disability, dysfunctional family or origin, and current family dysfunction may be addressed in the course of treating the abuse/neglect.
Home Based Casework
Home Based Caseworkers provide service for multi-problem and/or dysfunctional families in the family's home. Services can include community referrals and follow-up, meal planning/preparation, transportation, conflict management and supervised visitation. Services also include 24-hour crisis intervention seven days a week.
Homemaker Services
Homemakers/Parent Aids provide assistance and support for parents
who are unable to approximately fulfill parenting and/or
homemaking functions. Our staff assists the family through
advocating, teaching, demonstrating, monitoring, and/or role
modeling new, appropriate skills.
Toya Robinson, BBA Finance
Executive Director
Metropolitan Oasis CDC
1649 Broadway, Suite 202
Gary, Indiana 46407
phone: 219 881-0447 ext. 14
fax: 219 881-6641
email: trobinson@metropolitanoasiscdc.org
