Designed to help families avoid placing a child outside the home through emphasis on prevention using the family's strengths; works with families to develop real life management skills and assist in keeping the child from being placed outside the home by providing: - Nutrition planning - Budgeting - Child care and discipline - Skills building Family issues could include: - Adolescent conflict - Parenting help - Emotional problems and concerns of parents and/or children - Abusive relationships, physical, sexual, and/or emotional - Child neglect - Behavioral problems of children and/or parents - Reunification of families when a child is returning from home placement Program provides: - Family therapy - Individual and marital therapy - Parent education and training - Community resource mobilization, referral, and development - Supportive counseling - Client and family advocacy - Crisis intervention - Comprehensive assessments and recommendation

Information on times and locations of Al-Anon, Alateen, and Al-Anon Adult Children of Alcoholics meetings. Also provides general information about these meetings. Support and encouragement over the phone sometimes with referral to an experienced Al-Anon member Sale of Al-Anon and Alateen literature. A few titles available in Spanish. Call ahead before visiting office to pick up literature. All volunteer operation