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The Comprehensive Emergency
Services program offers case management services to families
experiencing such issues as:
Family Transition
School Transition / Problems
Family Stress
Financial Problems
Parental Substance Abuse
Domestic Abuse
Family Violence
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Comprehensive Emergency Services
(CES) offers 60 days of community-based crisis intervention
services to children and families to help reduce the effects
of stressful situations that families face on a daily
basis. The program provides home and community based services,
free of charge, to eligible families.
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The Program is available to
families with children birth to 18 years, living in the
Washington County area. The CES Program is funded through
the Department of Children, Youth and Families as a prevention
program. To be eligible for this program, an individual
or family should not be currently working with a DCYF social
worker.
Referrals to this program may be made by anyone with the
consent of the family. The CES program receives referrals
from schools, courts, family members, and human service
agencies.
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The program provides home and
community-based services, free of charge, to eligible families.
To assist these families in times of crisis, the program
offers; case management, family life education, 24 hour
telephone coverage 1.800.284.2503, referrals to shelters,
and information and referral. The CES program works closely
with school systems, and various human service agencies
to provide the best coordination of services for families.
All of this coordination takes place with the strictest
observation of families’ confidentiality.
The CES program also works closely with CASSP (Child &
Adolescent Service Support Program). This relationship has
been helpful in assisting families to find services which
may be unique to their situation and need.
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From fifth to eighth grade, the
amount of time children spend with their families
is cut in half.
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