Children at Risk Resources and Intervention Program – (CARRI)

CARRI-DCP&P

“Helping Parents become better parents”

A Parenting Education Service that provides strength-based supportive counseling to parents referred by the Department of Children and Families – Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P), services include:

Parenting Assessment through the use of three significant tools – (1 ^st three sessions)

1. AAPI evidenced based assessment tool that provides information about Adults and Adolescent parenting attitudes (questionnaire is utilize pre and post services.)
2. Psychosocial assessment.
3. Observation of parent-child interaction.

Parent Education Services – Plan of service -develop with client’s input and utilizing assessment results and information provided by referral source, DCP&P.

Parent education is provided utilizing the evidence based Nurturing Parenting Curriculum designed to support and enhance parent’s ability to develop parent/child environments that minimize risk factors and maximize protective factors. Through the use of psycho-educational and cognitive behavioral approaches the parent educator and clinicians reinforce the nurturing parenting curriculum. 

Counseling services around parenting issues – How maladaptive behaviors affect parenting. While clients are receiving additional services for trauma, DV, substance abuse and/or mental illness CARRI staff reinforces such services through counseling.

Criteria for Service Eligibility:

• Parent/Legal guardian with child age 0-5 at time of referral.
• Referral must be made by DCF-DCP&P Middlesex/Somerset offices ONLY.
• Parent is required to participate in weekly sessions for about 45 minutes to an hour for 8 to 10 weeks either in their home, DCP&P office or in a safe and privately control space within their community.
• Parents with active and/or untreated substance abuse problems and or acute mental health issues may require other services prior to participation in the home-based parenting education program in order to benefit from the program.

Collaboration with DCP&P – Recommendations for additional services or referrals for other services, resources and interventions are made when indicated.

Monthly CARRI-DCP&P collaborative meetings to strengthen the services provided to families referred.

Monthly Level of Service Report is provided to the DCP&P caseworker managing the family services as well as the Termination Summary at the end of services with CARRI.

Bilingual services are available