Secondary Prevention Services (SPS)
Secondary Prevention Services (SPS)
About this service
- Secondary Prevention Services is a community based program that provides support for secondary caregivers of children ages 0-5 to prevent child abuse and neglect BEFORE the abuse has occurred.
- Provides individual one on one support to improve parent/child interaction, healthy child development, and parent education
Eligibility
- Families with children 0-5
- Families that DO NOT have a open CYFD (Children’s Youth & Families Department) investigation
- We can take referrals from CYFD if they are on a CARA Plan (which is a federal law and stands for
the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery)
Act, known as “CARA”) .
Duration and Referral process
- Services can be provided up to 15 months following the date of the trial home visit
- Referrals can only come from CYFD