MCNCA has experienced a surge in Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) directors resigning due to burnout and organizational challenges, prompting an initiative to enhance leadership capacity and wellbeing for CAC directors. This multifaceted approach will address burnout...
This project will support a community assessment of the Greater Grand Rapids area to identify the most vulnerable youth at-risk for, or in foster care, or who have been adopted, who do not have access to integrated behavioral and primary healthcare. The assessment...
The Enhanced Child Welfare Access and Training Initiative will increase comprehensive behavioral health access for youth and their families in the foster care and child welfare system by first hiring a specialized behavioral health navigator who will assure youth and...
The project will support the training of Child and Family Service of Northwest Michigan staff and community providers in the evidence-based Family Time Coaching model, Nurturing Parenting, Trauma-Informed Parenting, and Protective Factors Framework programs to focus...
Holy Cross Services (HCS) will implement the Parent Partner program, a behavioral health intervention designed to help children in foster care reunify safely and more quickly with their families. The project will train parent partners, adults with lived experience as...
Building Resilience in Substance Abusing Families (BRISA) will create an integrated family model that addresses parental substance use and the underlying trauma related causes, while simultaneously building familial resiliency. This project will engage primarily...
This project will address the significant challenges women with accompanying children face in accessing and sustaining long-term residential substance abuse treatment and recovery by creating overnight residence availability for both mother and child. The...
This project will support workforce training in infant mental health (IMH) for dependency court staff by transitioning content to an online, self-paced format. The online training will be more efficient and will make this proven model more easily replicable beyond...
This project will implement strengths-based supervision training for the child welfare workforce in order to reduce workforce turnover and increase core competencies of the workforce. The train-the-trainer model will ensure that child welfare agencies of all sizes are...
