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Profiles of some key FSGB programs:

·         Effective Black Parenting, a “best practice” group program, addresses the special challenges faced by African American parents/caretakers and their children, ages 2-18, due to the history of racism and discrimination in the United States, and is particularly respectful of African American culture and communication patterns.

·         Los Niños Bien Educados, also a "best practice" group program, respects the special traditions and customs of Latino families and focuses on the value of parents raising children to be "bien educados," i.e., well-behaved in a social/personal sense and well-educated.

·         The Parenting Journey is a parent education and group support program geared to parents whose own upbringing undermines their ability to provide emotional support to their children.
 

·         Helping Fathers Be Fathers is a life and parenting skills development initiative designed to promote responsible fatherhood among multi-challenged, urban minority men, ages 18-45—recognizing their potential positive impact on the health and development of their children.
 

·         Teen Living Program provides structured group home living for teen mothers (and their children) receiving public assistance and unable to live with their families or the fathers of their children, and helps them move toward independence and economic self-sufficiency, graduate high school (or pass the GED), practice good parenting and life management skills, avoid child abuse, and raise healthy, emotionally stable, and school-ready children.
 

·         The Parent Mentor/Family Advocate service is a home-based visiting program that assists parents and family members to develop or increase their repertoire of effective parenting skills.
 

·         The Focused Family Intervention Team implements a range of family-based services—e.g., reunification, diversion, and stabilization—to assist in reintegrating a child placed "out of home" or avoiding out-of-home placement.

·         Helping the Noncompliant Child is a clinical program that trains parents to work effectively with young children, ages 3 to 8, exhibiting non-cooperative or other difficult behaviors.

·         Strong Start leverages FSGB's clinical expertise to empower under-resourced urban Boston early childhood development organizations, placing a high priority on strengthening social-emotional resiliency and competency of young children so they are prepared for academic and life success.

·         Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse—administered by FSGB's Center for Counseling—helps children who have suffered sexual abuse overcome symptoms of post-traumatic stress, including depression, anxiety, and other behavioral and emotional difficulties.

·         Friendly PEERsuasions is a “best practice,” science-based group substance abuse prevention and leadership development program targeting at-risk girls, ages 11-14, to learn decision-making and assertiveness, as well as communication and leadership skills.

·         All Stars, a “best practice” group program, focuses on delaying and preventing high-risk behaviors with middle school-age adolescents (ages 11 to 14)—including substance and tobacco use, fighting and bullying, violence, and premature sexual activity.

·         YPACT (Youth for Prevention and Action and Change through Thought) is an intensive, year-long youth leadership development, education and empowerment initiative that trains urban youth—using a core curriculum focusing on change strategies; harm reduction, personal health and safety; conflict resolution; and alcohol/substance abuse—to become change agents in urban communities.

In addition: 

·         FSGB’s Center for Counseling also offers individual, couples, children's and family therapy; psychiatric evaluations; and treatment services; specialized trauma evaluations and treatment planning for children and families; and consultations on child abuse to the Children's Advocacy Centers in Suffolk and Norfolk Counties.

·         FSGB has built strong collaborative partnerships with Boston Public Schools, community centers, and neighborhood clinics, enabling us to offer clinical mental health services where they are most needed, and ensuring their accessibility to the most hard-to-serve and hard-to-reach clients.

Best Practice Programs:

 

FSGB has a best practice orientation toward program delivery and favors research-based, protocol-driven program models. We believe our clients and our community deserve the highest quality of care. For that reason, we stay familiar with the literature, share information with our collaborators, and work in partnership with program participants and other stakeholders to choose new service approaches which really make a difference.
 

Because there is a critical need today to know what works – and the stakes are so high in regard to people’s lives – FSGB has introduced several proven new models into our school, community, and home-based programs. We have offered comprehensive training, not only for our own staff, but for others as well. Current best-practice programs at FSGB include:

·         Adolescent Transitions Program

·         Effective Black Parenting (Afro-centric parenting program)

·         Family Independence Teen Living Programs

·         Friendly PEERsuasion (girl-specific drug prevention program)