Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Family Outreach”
Peace Can Seem Hard to Come By Parenting is rarely peaceful. Most of the time it is chaos: overlapping schedules, special needs, work pressure, constant demands and meltdowns (by children and parents). Parents long to find control in the chaos. Parents can find the calmness they seek by developing systems and thinking through success strategies. Build Simple Family Systems Reducing …
A Grandmother Raising a Child: A First-Person Account My husband, John, and I did everything that we could to keep our granddaughter in our family when social services stepped in. There wasn’t any part of us that wanted her to go into foster care. Hannah belonged with us. We would attend OCA foster parent training to keep her in our …
Not Alone: A Family’s Road to Home A Season of Hardship Beth never expected to be raising her teenage daughters while couch surfing. But after surgery forced her out of work for a time, stability disappeared. In early 2025, When OCA began working with Beth and her teenage daughters, Addie and Lily, the family was in survival mode. Out of …
Intervention is Key for Struggling Families Families don’t struggle because they don’t care. Most struggle because they were never given what they needed in the first place. In Kentucky, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services utilizes an approach called Alternative Response, which focuses on supporting families early—before challenges escalate into crises. This model is proving effective because it …
