SERVICES
Family Stabilization
Family stabilization services involves the
provision of interventions across the service continuum aimed at resolving
immediate crisis, identifying and linking to needed resources, and/or
providing the support and supervision necessary to achieve permanency goals
and family well-being.
Information & Referral
Information and Referral Services provide
information about, and/or referrals to, community resources to meet
immediate and long-term needs such as job placement, legal services, food
and transportation, mental health services, domestic violence services,
shelter care, health and medical services, and housing assistance programs.
Community Case Services
Each Collaborative is engaged in building the
capacity of their target neighborhoods by offering technical assistance,
training, resource development, and small grants to their community
partners.
Supportive Case Services
A CFSA social worker has responsibility for
case management functions in these cases. Collaborative staff will be
engaged to provide varying levels of support to the CFSA worker to assist in
stabilizing the family. Collaborative staff assists the worker by providing
the core services, which include housing support, visitation and employment
support.
Youth Aftercare Support
Youth Aftercare provides community-based case
management and supportive services for young adults who are exiting the
foster care system.
Community Capacity Building
Each Collaborative is engaged in building the
capacity of their target neighborhoods by offering technical assistance,
training, resource development, and small grants to their community
partners.
DC Fatherhood Initiative
The DC Fatherhood Initiative seeks to expand
the array of neighborhood-based services and supports available to fathers,
prepare fathers to play a more positive role in the lives or their children,
and encourage fathers to provide financial support for their children.
Youth Truancy Diversion Project (Y-TRIP)
The Truancy Diversion Project seeks to reduce
the rate of truancy at six junior high/middle schools in the District. The
project provides intensive attendance monitoring and family based-services
to young people identified by the target schools’ administrations. North
Capitol Collaborative works with the students at Walker Jones Elementary
School.
Community Partnership for the Prevention of
Homelessness - CCG2
Funded by the Community Partnership for the
Prevention of Homelessness, the Community Care Grant Program is a community
based, family services program that assists families in shelters identify
permanent housing. NCCI will assist families in obtaining and/or
maintaining stable, safe, and affordable permanent housing. Case managers,
through the joint development of a case management plan, assist the family
to resolve the issues that led to their homeless status and provide them
with supportive services to maintain permanent housing.
