2018-518-E DSS - Exchange Club Family Center outside agency agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 2F546B53- F2D1- 407D- A1C7- 26EB823DOFFD 1 2. AGENCY. INFORMATION '(Be Very Brief and Concise) Please provide the following information about your agency (2 pages OR LESS): a) Years in Operation, Date of Incorporation (MonthlYear): 0112000 The Exchange Club's: Family Center in Alamance County (Family Center in Alamance) began as a satellite center of the Exchange Club's Family Center of Durham in 1997 and began taking, steps to operate as an independent center in 2000 when they obtained their tax exemption 501 c3 status. A year later, the Family Center in Alamance came under the umbrella of Exchange Club Centerforthe Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina, ce Inc. in order to grew and establish funding towards independence. Both agencies a a part of a national network of Child Abuse Prevention Centers sponsored by local f Exchange Clubs, b) Agency's Purpose /Mission (no more than a few sentences): The agency's mission is the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. This mission is implemented by enhancing parent child relationships, increasing community awareness, and increasing community involvement in prevention efforts. The center currently offers 8 evidence -based or evidence - informed programs and a 24 -hour crisis line in 7 counties in the triangleltriad area (Alamance, Orange, Chatham, Person, Caswell, Guilford, and Randolph). c) Types of Services the Agency Provides (bullet format): The Family Center has 8 prevention and treatment programs currently offered to families which include: • Intensive Family Preservation Services: evidence -based counseling services to prevent out of home placement of children in child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems. ■ Parent Aide Program: evidence -based in -home visitation program. • Children's Parents Parenting Classes: promising practice program. • Adolescent Parenting Program: in-home/comm unity visitation services for adolescent parents and their children, • Respite Services: temporary child care placements for families at -risk. • Parent/Teen Solutions: parenting classes for at -risk teens and their parents, • Adolescent Parent Support Program: in-home/community intensive visitation services for at-risk adolescent parents. • Juvenile Mentoring Services: in- homelcommunity mentoring program for at -risk youth. • Triple P Positive Parenting Program and Safe Care Services, evidence - based curriculums, are offered in the context of some of our in -home programming. • 24 -hour crisis line and Community Awareness Presentations. d) Agency's History with Providing These Services: The Family Center has 20 years of experience in administering grant funds and providing successful child abuse prevention services in the community, The agency has been offering Parent Aide services in Alamance County for 20 years, in Orange County for 10 years, and expanded into Caswell County in 2016. The Family Center was a part of the original randomized trial clinical study that helped to achieve the program's evidence -based status. In 2012, the Family Center further enhanced Parent Aide services outcomes by infusing the evidence- informed Triple P, Positive Parenting Program- Level 3 Primary Care, into programming. The agency was able to acid an additional evidence - informed curriculum for 0 -5 populations in 2015 called Safe Care. Both curriculums have enhanced services and increased positive outcomes. The staff at the agency are versed in the complexity of child abuse prevention and has decades of experience with in -home visitation and parenting education. The agency also Agency Information 1/22/2018 12 :44:38 PM Page 9 of 27