Foster Care Collaboration

My People Clinical Services provides the assessment, evaluation, and training for potential DCF foster parents. 

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School Based Services

My People Clinical Services provides schools with a support team that includes a therapist, case managers, and an intervention specialist. These individuals work with the school administration to stabilize the school and improve overall day to day functioning.

Fatherhood Engagement Training and Consultation

My People has had a long history in the Fatherhood movement in Connecticut. In addition to developing and managing a Fatherhood Engagement Service for many years, My People is an excellent resource for consultation on difficult cases involving fathers.  We also offer a wide range of trainings for staff to ensure fathers are engaged and involved.  Below is a brief overview of the trainings we offer:

 

• Fatherhood SWOT Analysis

The Fatherhood SWOT Analysis assesses paternal family members' strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Through this analysis, a decision can be made on how to move forward with training and strategy implementation.
 

• Going from Fatherhood Engagement to Father Inclusion & Equity

Father Engagement has become standard as organizations increasingly seek involvement with fathers and paternal relatives. Engagement of fathers can mean a variety of things based on each social worker’s experience and desire to develop deep, impactful relationships with the fathers they serve.  Social workers must move beyond fatherhood engagement to father inclusion and equity for all fathers to truly include them in the process. 

This training underscores father engagement while challenging participants to involve fathers at every stage, equal to mothers. It also reimagines equity through a fatherhood lens and explores the necessary steps toward achieving it.
 

• Turning 50 Barriers to Fatherhood Engagement into 50 Opportunities for Fatherhood Engagement (90 minutes)

Barriers, controllable and uncontrollable, get in the way of engaging fathers. However, what if we looked at each barrier as an opportunity to engage a father and thought of ways to turn what is perceived as a barrier into an opportunity to better engage and work with fathers? This interactive training provides a list of common obstacles and encourages participants to discuss how to turn each barrier into an opportunity for Fatherhood Engagement.
 

• 21 Levels of Fatherhood Engagement (90 minutes)

The deeper the engagement, the greater the outcomes are.  Ask yourself, “How many levels will I go to engage and support fathers?”  This training goes through the 21 levels of fatherhood engagement and uses role play to help participants experience the impact of engaging fathers.
 

• 10 Steps to Working with Fathers Beyond Engagement (90 minutes)

 In this 10-step training, participants explore steps for working with fathers once engagement is established, aiming for positive outcomes for both fathers and their children.

Working with fathers, especially non custodial fathers, opens up a vast amount of opportunities for children.  Fathers have many supports that are willing to help.