Programs & Services
Family Support
Child Inc and Head Start recognize that a young child needs a stable and secure home environment to be able to achieve maximum benefits from an early child development program. Experience has shown that children cannot function well if they live in a home with issues such as domestic violence, inadequate food, parents with untreated health/mental health problems, utility cut-offs, or siblings with serious problems. To foster the proper home environment, Child Inc provides family support/social services support to every family who indicates a need as demonstrated by a client request or by staff identification of need based on family intake assessment documents or staff observation of children and/or parents.
Families are offered support on a voluntary basis that covers a wide range of needs and services. Some of these include housing, employment, mental or physical health of enrolled children’s parents or siblings, emergency food assistance and parenting education. While Child Inc is not funded to directly provide social services, it does provide short-term counseling and problem identification, referral to community resources, and follow-up to ensure families have received recommended services.
All enrolled families have immediate access to family support staff through family support workers housed in centers, visiting teachers working with parents in home or public school settings, and Child Inc classroom aides working in public school pre-K classrooms and other cooperating community child development centers. All of these front-line staff is supported by family service workers in our administrative offices.
All family support work is provided with total confidentiality.
In addition, the family support division is responsible for publishing the only comprehensive community services directory that is available to Child Inc clients and the community-at–large through this website.
For more information, contact Child Inc at (512) 451-7361 or 1(800)-222-4051
