- Outpatient Services
Assessment, Individual, Group and Family Therapy
- Community Family Services
Therapy is provided in home and school settings.
- Voluntary Protective Services/Family Casework Services
Child Guidance Center provides voluntary protective services, child welfare casework services,
supportive counseling, permanency planning and reunification services in the Westside area of Jacksonville.
- School Based Services
Child Guidance Center provides specialized services in many of Jacksonville's schools.
- Medical Services
Child Guidance Center provides psychiatric (medical) management of clients served by each program.
- Case Management
Child Guidance Center provides case management services for children
and adolescents who have more serious emotional problems.
- Crisis Response Team
The Crisis Response Team intervenes during critical and emotionally
taxing periods in children’s lives, during which the children present a
danger to themselves and/or to others.
- Supervised Visitation and Parent Education Services
Visitation services are provided to children placed in protective custody by the court due to abuse or neglect so they can have supervised time with their parents, siblings and other relations in a safe and nurturing environment. The goal of this service is to assist with reunification and strengthening of the family unit.
Parent Education is provided to parents who have a referral from the court or a child welfare agency.
- LEAP (Learning, Educating, Advocating and Preparing)
This program assists individuals ages 14-22 who are foster care or former foster care participants to achieve financial literacy including budgeting, banking and saving activities. Participants are helped to increase their matched savings in the Opportunity Passport program underwritten by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative and administered by the United Way of Northeast Florida.
- Focus on Families of North Florida
This pilot project targets families in the 32210 zip code of the Westside of Jacksonville who are referred by the Department of Children and Families through Family Support Services of Northeast Florida for intensive therapy and case management services. The goal of the program is to prevent the children from being removed from the home and placed in foster care.
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Grant
Child Guidance Center received a grant to develop an assessment center for children who may have some disorder along the fetal alcohol spectrum and to provide training with the goal of preventing fetal alcohol disorders. The future outcome is to secure funding to develop a system of care for children identified as having FASD.
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