FAMILY

Two or more people who consider themselves family and who assume obligations, functions, and responsibilities generally essential to healthy family life. Child care and child socialization, income support, long-term care, and other caregiving are among the functions of family life. The definition of "family" will rest with an individual's indication of who plays a family member role, including current or former foster family, adoptive family, extended family members, fictive kin, or significant others. Organizations that believe family is the central constellation in a child's life, and that family attachments are of primary importance for human development, will strive to work with professional staff to develop a common understanding of "family."		  
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  SERVICE

One or more organization-operated programs or activities that have a common general objective and deploy the organization's material and human resources in a planned and systematic manner. An organization that publicly promotes or identifies itself in writing as offering a service, is licensed to deliver a service, assigns personnel and/or space to a service, or allocates financial resources to a service is considered to offer that service.		  
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  COMMUNITY

A specific group of people living in the same locality and who may share a common culture, values, and norms. Communities can also be defined by race, religion, ethnicity, age, occupation, political status, tribal affiliation, interest in particular problems or outcomes, or other common bonds. The term "community" encompasses worksites, schools, tribes, residential neighborhoods, business districts, recreational areas, and health and human service sites.		  
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  PROGRAM

A system of services offered by an organization. For example, an organization providing a mental health service may offer several mental health programs to different populations, e.g., a mental health program for adolescent teens. The word "program" can be used interchangeably with the word "service" or to describe specific programs.		  
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Child and Family Development and Support Services
  
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PA-CFD 7: Community-Based Approach to Service

 
A community-based approach increases the ability of the agency and community to support children and families and meet their needs.

PA-CFD 7.01

 
The agency works and partners with other community providers to coordinate service delivery and increase the likelihood that needed supports and services will be used.
NA The agency provides only parent education groups.

PA-CFD 7.02

 

To promote the availability of a full range of community services, the agency:

  1. regularly assesses the resources and services available to families; and
  2. advocates for needed services when they are lacking or not easily accessible.

PA-CFD 7.03

 

Program activities facilitate a connection to the community, and promote a coordinated response to community needs, by encouraging families to:

  1. connect with other community members, organizations, and institutions; and
  2. contribute time and skills to family support and community building efforts if and when it is appropriate to do so.
Interpretation: Some families may not be at a point in their lives where they can contribute to family support and community building efforts.
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PURPOSE: Families participating in Child and Family Development and Support Services delivered through strong community partnerships gain new competencies, improve child health and well-being, improve family functioning, and make family-community connections.
 
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