Specialized Child & Family Services

Sometimes there are children and families in our communities who may need extra guidance and support to make a positive change and enrich their growth and development.  For families who are in need of support because of their involvement in community systems, including court or social services, Beginnings Family Enrichment offers specialized programs that integrate trauma-sensitive and informed practices and approaches.

Parent Focused Education & Supervised Visitation Services

Through my Parent Focused Education and Supervised Visitation, I work with families to bring about positive family dynamic changes and offer support towards family reunification.  With my mentoring, guidance, and intervention, I assist families as their children transition from foster or residential care back to the home.

​My mission is to strengthen families through education and application. Through education and one-to-one interaction, parents will acquire the skills to identify and acknowledge risk factors in their home and ultimately strengthen the family structure.

I place great emphasis on the safety, well-being, permanency, and collaborative parenting in the home of origin and alternative placement.  I strive to educate and support families in the following areas:

• Essential parenting skills
• Non-physical (corporal) methods of discipline
• Behavior Management and Crisis De-Escalation
  
• Parental Self-Care & Emotion Regulation
  
• Safe visits and family engagement
• Maintaining a safe and stable home
• Financial support and budgeting
• Parent-Teen / Parent-Child Relationships
  
• Advocacy and referral to ancillary services

​To request Parent Focused Education or Supervised Visitation Services, please complete the Referral for Specialized Enrichment Services below.

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Therapeutic Mentoring

Using my extensive skills in cognitive behavioral and solution-focused modalities, I offer an intermediate level of intervention between counseling and mentoring.  BFE's Therapeutic mentoring provides youth with individual tools that promote growth and emphasizes individual and personal needs.  These skills include, but are not limited to:

• Social Skills
• Coping Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Conflict Resolution and Problem-Solving Skills
• Training youth in age appropriate behaviors
• Coaching and access to community resources
• Job Skills Assessment and Training
• Employment and Volunteerism

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New Beginnings: Life Skills for Young Parents 

New Beginnings is a program designed to the meet the needs of pregnant and parenting youth and young adults (mothers and fathers) under the age of 21.  These services are geared towards young parents who are at-risk and disengaged from needed services to support the transition of parenthood.

The goal of the New Beginnings program is to prepare young parents to become self-sufficient, healthy, and capable parents. This case management and life skills based service offers youthful parents support with:

• Obtaining health and medical care for themselves and their baby
• Fulfilling education goals
• Securing safe and stable housing
• Building positive and healthy co-parenting relationships
• Fostering nurturing parent-child bonds

​To request New Beginnings Services, please complete the Referral for Specialized Enrichment Services below.​

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Monique offers extensive expertise in the areas of domestic violence, foster care, parenting education, mental health, and trauma informed services. She focuses on strengthening parent-child interactions, minimizing ineffective parenting responses, and encouraging ways for parents to effectively manage their children's behaviors integrating both the PRIDE and Nurturing Parenting Programs models.  In addition to individualized services, Monique is available to facilitate group classes utilizing these models at local social service agencies, court services, and/or private foster and adoptive care agencies.