Family in Adversity Services
Family in Adversity Support Program
Background
In the journey of raising children, many families encounter times when financial pressures or parenting challenges become overwhelming, leaving parents feeling exhausted and close to tears. During these difficult times, families can rely not only on their own but also on the consistent support provided by CWLF’s social workers, who help restore stability to their caregiving.
This service accompanies families through sudden crises or poverty, working to improve their children’s living and learning quality. While financial assistance helps secure children’s rights to survival, education, and healthcare, the service goes beyond that. It focuses on strengthening parents’ caregiving and nurturing skills. In doing so, it fosters a foundation of love and stability within families facing adversity.
What We Do
- Family support and resources connections
- Financial subsidies and supplies assistance
- Parenting support services
- At-home parenting consultation services (our target is families with children under 6 years old)
Who We Serve
- Families/Individuals who reside in the coverage of the service area.
- Families who have children under 18 years
- Families who often face financial difficulties and setbacks when caretaking their children.
High-Risk Families Empowerment Services
Background
Frequent reports of tragic social incidents—such as parents taking their own lives together with their children, or cases of child abuse leading to death— reveal that many of these households are affected by poverty, crime, unemployment, substance abuse, or teenage parenthood.
Through our High-Risk Families Empowerment Services, we strive to reach children and adolescents growing up in these challenging households. The program provides families with immediate support to address urgent needs, connects them with essential resources through case management and tailored services, and strengthens caregivers’ parenting skills and crisis response capacities. In doing so, we work to stabilize children’s basic care and safeguard their right to grow up in a nurturing environment.
What We Do
- Phone call meetings and family visits
- Financial subsidies and supplies assistance
- Consultation sessions
- Parenting education and instructions
- Family respite activities, children and youth groups, and camps
Who We Serve
- Households with children under 18 often face adversities such as near-poverty, long-term unemployment, or multicultural backgrounds. These circumstances often result in economic instability and resource scarcity. These families therefore require additional assistance to help family members address daily challenges.
- Families where caregivers include teenage parents, grandparents raising grandchildren, single parents, or first-time parents from families in adversity often require support to strengthen their parenting skills.
Preschool Educare Support Services
Background
Based on many years of practical experience and research, CWLF has found that providing early intervention with timely assistance and support can prevent more serious risks and potential harm. Since 2021, we have carried out the Early Childhood Professional Support Service Program commissioned by the Department of Education, Taipei City Government, adopting a child-centered and family-focused case management model. Through this program, we provide professional services to children enrolled in Taipei City’s public and non-profit kindergartens, along with their caregivers and childcare professionals. Guided by each child’s physical, emotional, and developmental needs, we accompany adults in exploring parenting and guidance strategies, offer family support services, strengthen the counseling capacities of kindergartens, and help connect families to essential community resources. This approach seeks to ensure a stable foundation for children’s healthy growth and development, while safeguarding their rights and well-being.
What We Do
- We provide consultation services to address needs related to children’s physical and mental development, parenting discussions, guidance strategies, and resource inquiries. Professionals in social work and counseling services provide tailored advice to educare professionals and parents through both phone call consultations and on-site visits.
- We provide case management and counseling services:
• to offer individual guidance based on each child’s developmental needs
• to offer parenting support tailored to families’ child-rearing challenges
• to deliver strategies to strengthen teachers’ classroom management
- We provide resource matching with a focus on each child’s unique developmental path, we connect families, children, and institutions with appropriate resources, including developmental therapy, child protection and care services, and financial assistance according to actual needs and available services.
Who We Serve
Children, parents, and educare professionals within Taipei City’s public and non-profit childcare institutions, as well as private institutions referred by the Department of Education, Taipei City Government. Eligible participants include those who require assistance, children suspected of developmental delays, and families facing adversity.
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