FCSP Services Overview

Significant research suggests that the best support for family-centered practice among frontline workers is an organizational cultures grounded in the same values and principles. We seek to relate to agency leadership and staff based on the same commitments that guide our work with families.

Clinical Training and Consultation

FCSP provides a wide range of training for agencies interested in enhancing their ability to engage and collaboratively work with families in challenging situations. We offer trainings for frontline workers, supervisors and administrators in social service, mental health and health care settings. We can customize workshops to fit the needs of your particular agency or program, and have offerings that are applicable to clinic, residential, home-based and child protection contexts. Please ask to see a complete list of the trainings we offer.

Organizational Consultation

Many organizations that embrace a family-centered philosophy regularly struggle to maintain family-centered practices, especially when faced with high workloads and bureaucratic mandates. FCSP stands in this gap by helping you develop sustainable organizational practices that support and honor your commitment to family-centered practice. FCSP can work with your team, agency or organization using a collaborative consultation process. We will work with your staff and administration to help them:

• appreciate their existing clinical knowledge and best individual practices;
• build on this foundation to develop a collective vision of best organizational practices;
• identify core commitments in this vision that can inspire and re-energize participants; and
• develop concrete practices to bring these commitments into daily work experiences.

We believe this to be a very effective process for organizational change. It applies the values and principles of family-centered services in the context of organizational change in order to enhance learning and capacity. Because the new organizational structures and supports are built on existing staff successes and values, staff empowerment and buy-in are inherent outcomes of the process. Our experience has demonstrated that this process can be effectively adapted to meet the needs of a wide range of agencies.

Supervision Groups

FCSP offers on-going supervision and consultation groups for supervisors and administrators in home-based, residential, and outpatient settings who are seeking on-going support to sustain family-centered philosophy and practice in their agencies and organizations.