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Join Us-
Click Here to join St. Joseph Youth Alliance and help make a difference in your community.
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 FAMILY CONNECTIONS - is a child abuse and neglect prevention program that features home visitation services for stay at home parents with at least one child under age 3. Family Connections helps parents enhance their skills and monitor their children’s physical and social-emotional health and well being. Families complete questionnaires to determine their goals, and are connected to the resources and assistance they need to accomplish their goals and to reduce family stress. As an expert on their child, parents are partners in assessing a child’s developmental and social progress, administered with a goal of early intervention when milestones are not being met.
Benefits of Family Connections:
- Services are available through home visits, eliminating transportation and child care barriers.
- Families have access to the latest parenting information.
- Families can track the physical and social-emotional development of their children.
- Family members have voice and choice in creating their family plans.
- Families receive monthly newsletters containing parenting tips, infant and toddler activities, listings of community. events, support group meetings, and consumer product recalls.
- Families are informed about community resources and services.
What can YOU, as a member of the community, do to help prevent child abuse in the city of St. Joseph and Buchanan County, Missouri?
Change Yourself-
- Ask yourself how you are doing as a parent. Vow to learn one new thing about being a parent by reading or talking to other parents.
- Respect your family members. Use a courteous tone of voice with them.
- Learn to apologize to your children when you are wrong. Make time to play together. Praise children and teens for being good, for doing the little things that are so easy to take for granted.
- Tell your children “I love you” more often.
- Violence teaches violence. Forget about hitting your kids.
Change Your Community-
- Reach out to neighbors or relatives with children. Offer to baby-sit to give them a much-needed break.
- Don’t wait for someone else to do it..take action! Arrange for a speaker on child abuse to come to PTA or adult Sunday school class.
- Volunteer time in a child crisis shelter, parenting support program, drug prevention/treatment program, or shelter for the homeless.
Change the World-
- Write a letter to your elected representatives and let them know it is your choice that they act to support parent education and child abuse prevention.
- Register to vote and use your vote to reflect your concern for children.
- Child abuse prevention organizations are only as strong as their members.
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For more information on these programs please email us or call 816-232-0050.
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