Family Intervention Services
Family & Psychological Services
Circuit Court Services
“Children In The Middle” Classes Parenting Time Counseling

Agency-based counseling services are provided by our professional staff of psychologists and master’s level social workers experienced in a variety of therapies over a wide range of issues. They offer confidential family, individual, relationship and parent-child counseling, psychological testing and psychiatric support to a broad range of clients. Most insurance and managed care is accepted. Services are also supported through contracts with community mental health agencies and a sliding fee scale made possible by community United Ways.

Network For Young Children (Calhoun)
Healthy Families (Calhoun)
Parent Infant Program/Early Childhood Services (Calhoun)

Early intervention services offer parents home-based support through family-centered, strength-based counseling, prenatal and early infancy support, and early childhood/parenting education including specific skills training. Services emphasize each family’s ability to develop positive parent-child relationships which last a lifetime. NYC is a collaboration with CISD; Healthy Families is supported by 0-3 Secondary Funds; PIP is through contract with Summit Pointe.

Case Management (Calhoun)
Families First (Kalamazoo and Calhoun)
Family & Community Treatment (Kalamazoo)
FIA Outreach & Homemaker (Barry)
Mobile Crisis Response (Kalamazoo)

More intensive family preservation services are provided when families are struggling with issues related to adult or youth mental health crises, out-of-home placement due to abuse or neglect, or a child’s serious emotional disturbance or developmental disability. All services include 24-hour on-call response and intensive therapeutic intervention focusing on parent/professional teamwork, family-centered planning, client advocacy and coordination of community resources. Services are supported by FIA, Kalamazoo Community Mental Health and Summit Pointe.

Family Support Services

Respite & Youth Enrichment Services (all sites)
Overnight Respite / Summer Program
Community Living and Support Training

A broad variety of respite programs are offered to families that include a member with serious developmental, physical, emotional or behavioral challenges. Trained and experienced staff care for up to six guests per day/overnight in each of four respite homes located in Kalamazoo County. Parents are offered a break in caregiving responsibilities; child and adult guests receive specialized care and treatment and a positive, community-based experience. Respite is supported by contract with Kalamazoo Community Mental Health Services and FIA.

Albion Wraparound (Calhoun)
Comstock Alternative Education (Kalamazoo)
All Giants Achieve (Kalamazoo Central H.S.)
Parents Anonymous (Kalamazoo & Calhoun)
Supervised Parenting Time (Kalamazoo)
Parenting Classes (Calhoun & Kalamazoo)
“You Are Your Child’s Compass” (Calhoun)

These community-based initiatives include school-based interventions, parenting support services, crisis intervention, and supervision for court ordered parent visits. They are designed to prevent the need for more intensive services to children and adults and are supported by a variety of contracts in the communities served.