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Community Health Navigators

June 2, 2022/in Pregnancy & Parenting Services /by Andrea Skrlac

Family Wellness Community Health Navigator Program

Helping our babies reach their first birthday

Our Community Health Navigators work with women who are pregnant or have a baby under the age of one. We also aim to reach and engage those individuals who are statistically the most at-risk for low birth weight and infant mortality.

Did you know?

  • In Ohio, African American infants are more than 2.5 times more likely to die in their first year of life compared to white infants.
  • Prematurity is the leading cause of low birth weight and infant mortality.
  • Mothers who are not able to receive proper nutrition, support, and prenatal care are more susceptible to pregnancy complications and preterm birth.

What do the Community Health Navigators do?

  • Increase education and awareness of low birth weight and infant mortality and their impact in the African American community.
  • Work to establish and build trusting relationships with individuals and families through general support and encouragement.
  • Work to reduce stressors related to racial disparities in the African American community.
  • Provide prenatal, parenting, and health information and education.
  • Connect individuals and families with quality community resources, services, programs, and baby items such as diapers and car seats.
  • Network in the community to build partnering relationships.


The Family Wellness Community Health Navigator Program is made possible through a partnership with:



Why is low birth weight a concern? It increases the risk of health complications. The baby’s tiny body is not as strong, and he or she may have a harder time eating, gaining weight, and fighting infection.


INFANT MORTALITY is defined as the death of a live-born baby before his or her first birthday.




Quick facts about infant mortality:

  • Low birth weight babies (less than 5.5 pounds) are at higher risk.
  • Less stress during pregnancy reduces the chances of low birth weight and infant mortality.
  • Early prenatal care helps prevent low birth weight and infant mortality.
  • Breastfeeding in the first six months to one year gives babies an extra healthy start.
  • The ABCs of safe sleep help keep babies safe in their first year…
    • A – Place babies Alone
    • B – on their Backs
    • C – in their Cribs.

Eligibility


This program serves residents of Montgomery County.

Contact


For more information, call (937) 299-LINK.

Location


Our Community Health Navigators are primarily based at our Center for Families in Dayton, 1046 Brown Street.

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Kinship & Adoption Navigators

February 24, 2022/in Assists Children, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Pregnancy & Parenting Services, Professional Counseling, Shelby, Specialized Counseling /by Andrea Skrlac

OhioKAN

Kinship & Adoption Navigator Program

Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley is thrilled to partner with OhioKAN, a new statewide flexible and responsive kinship and adoption navigator program designed to assist children, caregivers, and families.

The program is designed to assist those who have adopted children as well as those who are providing kinship care.

The first step to access the program is to call 1-844-OHIO-KAN to connect with a navigator who will talk with you to understand your situation and needs. If you and the navigator decide together that we can help you navigate and access important resources, we’ll walk through the OhioKAN BASICS overview to make sure we completely understand your family situation and can start making a plan together.

We’ll use the OhioKAN Information Hub to review more than 8,000 records to find, analyze, and organize all of the resources available to you based on your exact situation, location, and needs. Based on our conversation and resource review, we’ll create a Personalized Resource Plan. This document becomes the action plan for navigating and accessing all of the local and statewide resources that fit your situation.


With the support of dedicated site navigators here at CSSMV, OhioKAN’s 100% free services will help kinship and adoptive families in Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, and Shelby Counties navigate and connect with all of the resources available locally and statewide.

For more information and helpful resources, as well as a directory of other regional partners serving other areas of Ohio, you can visit the OhioKAN website at https://ohiokan.jfs.ohio.gov.

To connect with a navigator from ANYWHERE in Ohio, call 1-844-OHIO-KAN.



WHAT IS KINSHIP CARE?

PASSS Applications Are Now Available

The purpose of the Post Adoption Special Services Subsidy (PASSS) is to assist Ohio families after the finalization of their adoption. The subsidy is available to all adoptive families regardless of the type of adoption (international, attorney, public or private agency), with the exception of step-parent adoptions. The child DOES NOT have to meet either the federal or state definition of special needs to receive this subsidy. Each child may be eligible for up to $10,000 per year ($15,000 if residential treatment is recommended by a qualified professional).

PASSS funds may be used for reasonable costs of services to address the child’s physical condition, developmental disability, mental health, or emotional condition that either existed prior to the adoption or developed after the adoption and can be attributed to factors in the child’s preadoption background, medical history, or biological family’s background or medical history.

PASSS eligibility requirements:

  • Child/young person resides in Ohio with the adoptive family
  • Child/young person has been adopted by someone other than a step-parent
  • Child/young person has a physical or developmental disability or mental or emotional condition that either existed before the adoption petition was filed or developed after the adoption petition was filed and can be directly attributed to factors in the child/young person’s pre-adoption background or medical history, or biological family’s background or medical history
  • The child/young person is under the age of eighteen OR the child/young person is at least eighteen years of age and less than twenty-one years of age and has been diagnosed with a mental or physical disability
  • Other sources of assistance are inadequate or are unavailable to meet the child/young person’s immediate needs

For more details about PASSS, click HERE.

Eligibility


While CSSMV’s Kinship Navigators serve the specific counties listed above, OhioKAN is a 100% free program available to all kinship and adoptive families in Ohio.

Contact


Call 1-844-OHIO-KAN (1-844-644-6526) to talk one-on-one with an OhioKAN Navigator. Phone lines are open Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Location


CSSMV’s OhioKAN Navigators are based at our Center for Families on Brown Street in Dayton.

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Post-Adoption Support Services

April 25, 2018/in Auglaize, Available To Residents, Champaign, Darke, Greene, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Pregnancy & Parenting Services, Professional Counseling, Programs & Services, Shelby, Specialized Counseling /by atomic

Post-Adoption Support Services

Adoption is a life-long process and each adoption is unique and special. Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley offers post-adoption services and general adoption information, support for adoptees, and specialized support for adoptive families through our Safe Counseling program.

Whether you’re an adoptee looking for information on your birth family, you’re looking for information about how to adopt a child, or your family includes an adopted child, we have expertise to assist you. The CSSMV professional counseling program is available to adult and child adoptees and their families, and also offers special expertise in the area of attachment disorders.

I was a client or adoptee in CSSMV’s adoption program

CSSMV maintains records for all finalized adoptions that used our adoption placement services.

If you are an adoptee, a birth parent, or an adoptive family whose legal adoption was finalized through CSSMV, we can help you access information from your records.

For assistance, please call (937) 223-7217.

Our family includes an adopted child

Our counseling team has expertise working with adoptive families as they go through the adoptive family life cycle. To learn more about these stages and how CSSMV can help address some of the unique challenges faced by adoptive families, please click HERE. If you’d like to make an appointment at our Dayton Counseling Center or you have questions about our counseling services, please call 937.296.1007.

Some adopted children have difficulty developing an attachment to their adoptive families. In extreme cases, they may be diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder, or RAD. Catholic Social Services’ Safe Counseling program can help. Click HERE for more information.

Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley is also pleased to be partnering with OhioKAN, a new statewide flexible and responsive Kinship and Adoption Navigator program designed to assist children, caregivers, and families. If you are interested in learning about resources that may be available to you as adoptive parents, please click HERE.

I want to adopt a child

We can give you information about open, confidential, and identified adoption options, as well as explaining what to expect from both emotional and logistical/legal perspectives.

We work with Adoption Circle, a private, non-profit, Ohio-licensed adoption agency, and can also connect you to other community resources.

Eligibility


Our services are available to anyone seeking information or resources about adoption, as well as any birth parent, adoptee, or adoptive family whose adoption was finalized through CSSMV.

Contact


Call (937) 223-7217 ext. 2102.

Location


CSSMV Center for Families
1046 Brown Street
Dayton, Ohio 45409

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SAFE Counseling

April 25, 2018/in Auglaize, Available To Residents, Champaign, Darke, Greene, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Pregnancy & Parenting Services, Professional Counseling, Programs & Services, Shelby, Specialized Counseling /by atomic

SAFE Counseling

From the moment of birth, when a baby struggles to find the first breaths of life, the people and the environment surrounding the child are important to his or her survival. When a child’s birth or early developmental experiences are filled with problems, behavioral issues can arise and begin to magnify as the child grows. A child who has endured trauma may develop an attachment disorder. Children who have been abused or neglected and/or had multiple foster care placements prior to adoption are particularly “at risk” of developing attachment and bonding difficulties.

Conventional parenting, standard school discipline or traditional outpatient therapy are often less than effective for “hard-to-reach” children with an attachment disorder. These children and their families need help, and it is available through Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley’s SAFE Counseling program.

SAFE Counseling is designed to treat children and to educate parents of children who exhibit signs of an attachment disorder. SAFE Counseling offers help to parents of children who have serious issues that seem unsolvable.

Attachment therapy is an integrated treatment approach that uses elements of cognitive-behavioral, object relations, family and psychodynamic therapies to facilitate child-parent bonding and to measure feedback. In conjunction with these therapies, holding therapy is used to establish a safe place with safe people in which the child can safely talk about and experience the painful issues of the past.

The program seeks to jump start the attachment cycle aborted as the result of the child’s earlier trauma. SAFE believes it is essential to break through barriers of trauma before a child can develop healthy interpersonal relations built on trust. SAFE counseling aims to begin the attachment and healing process for the child and the adoptive or current family.

Eligibility


If your child has been diagnosed with an attachment disorder, or if you believe your child may be suffering from this disorder, call us for more information or a screening appointment.

Contact


Call our Dayton Counseling Center at (937) 296-1007.

Location


CSSMV Center for Families
1046 Brown Street
Dayton, Ohio 45409

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Parenting & Co-Parenting Classes

April 25, 2018/in ParentLink, Pregnancy & Parenting Services, Programs & Services /by atomic

Parenting & Co-Parenting Classes

We offer an ongoing series of free meetings and classes in Dayton that can help you gain the knowledge and tools to become a more confident and nurturing parent. 

Current Offerings:

  • Nurturing Co-Parenting 101 is offered monthly, as a one-session class that can help you learn skills and techniques for better co-parenting with your child’s other parent. For more information, click on the class flyer you’ll find on this page.
  • Mommy Meet-Ups are monthly gatherings where teen moms and moms who are pregnant or have an infant can get together to get tips from our parenting team and from each other. For more information, click on the flyer on this page.
Nurturing Co-Parenting 101

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