Turning Points believes that the best way to ensure that children grow up within safe and healthy families is by preventing abuse and neglect in the first place. To that end, we sponsor a variety of programs and services aimed at helping families avoid unnecessary involvement in child welfare services.
The objectives of CUA prevention services include:
In-Home Services
In Home Services is an intensive in-home program for families in which the children are at imminent risk of abuse or neglect. Social work services are provided to help caregivers develop the parenting skills and protective capabilities they need that will keep their children from having to enter foster care.
The Father's Club
Working with the School of Parent Education and Daddy University, Inc., Turning Points provides two holistic fatherhood groups, each running weekly sessions for eight months and serving fathers who are involved in child welfare services and fathers from the community. The curriculum to be used is 24/7 Dad© of the National Fatherhood Initiative. The groups are designed to work with fathers to address stressors or behaviors that can affect their abilities to support their children emotionally and financially (such as addiction, poverty, unemployment, criminal record, noncustodial, etc.) and cover a wide variety of subjects including fatherhood, healthy relationships, marriage and child health issues. Participants are assisted by Daddy University in addressing practical barriers that may exist to their ability to be involved in the raising of their children. For more information, contact Louise Leibowitz, LCSW, Program Director, at 215.875.4963 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Families and Schools Together
The Families and Schools Together (FAST) program works closely with school principals and counselors, mental health and substance abuse providers and community leaders to provide parent education and family support services. The goal of the FAST program is to strengthen families by promoting parent nurturing, improving relationships and increasing children’s success in school. Participating families meet once a week for a total of eight weeks. Subsequent to the completion of the first eight sessions families will continue to meet once a month over a 22 month period. The FAST program currently operates in four schools in our CUA regions with specially trained facilitators. For more information about FAST, contact Kim Jones, MBA, Program Director at 215.875.4943 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..