Whole Family Placement Who we serve Parents and their children with a variety of issues: • Lack of knowledge/ability/skills in how to meet children’s needs • Coping with mental and/or physical health issues • Alcohol and/or chemical dependency recovery • Physical/sexual/emotional abuse issues that are unresolved • Homelessness • Male dependency issues • Educational/employment needs • Developmental delays How we serve them • The parents, DSS case worker, and Growing Home Southeast team assess what is in the best interest of permanency for the child/ren in a mutual, respectful, and timely fashion. • Growing Home Southeast team assesses parents’ strengths and needs. • GHSE treatment parents provide intensive hands-on training and mentoring for the parent(s). • Growing Home Southeast team and parent develop a measurable goal plan that includes taking care of self, living skills and connectedness that creates a sense of belonging for the participant parent and children. Program benefits • Produces permanency for child/ren early in their development • Enables biological parents to learn parenting skills and living skills necessary to maintain a household while dealing with their personal issues • Helps parents develop the skills needed to carry out parental duties, make good decisions, and exit the child welfare system • Prevention of out-of-home placement of children   Expected Outcomes Whole Family Placement services aim to stabilize families so that: • Children will move on to permanency, with this family or another. • Parents will assess, understand, and improve their parenting abilities. • There are no new reports of child abuse/ neglect six months after the program completion.