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First Family Preservation
Family preservation services are short-term, family-focused services designed to assist families in crisis by improving parenting and family functioning while keeping children safe.
Although family preservation programs share many common characteristics, they vary considerably with respect to auspices (public or private agencies), theoretical orientation, target population, identified problem, and primary location of service.
Programs also vary dramatically in terms of intensity, duration, caseloads, and teaming with other professionals or paraprofessionals.
Parenting Education
A step-by-step process for people who live in poverty, giving individuals the opportunity to investigate their lives on their own terms. During sixteen 2-hour sessions, participants discover why they are in their situation, develop a plan to get themselves to a more stable life, and begin to build relationships that will help ensure sustainability as they go.
Bethany Christian Services: Safe Families Program
When parents are experiencing difficulties caring for themselves or their children, you can help by providing support for their family as they take essential steps towards stability.
Grandparents as Parents through the Office on Aging
Since it began in 2000, the Knoxville-Knox County Grandparents as Parents Program has provided support, information, and referrals to community resources. There is no age or income requirement to join the free program.
Parenting Support Groups in Knoxville, TN:
In-person and online-only support groups for parents of toddlers, adolescents, and teens.
Next Phaze Single Parent Support
Next Phaze empowers parenting teenage and young single moms to strive for personal and economic self-sufficiency and to understand their significance in God’s sight, resulting in a healthy future for them, for their children and community.
The McNabb Center offers a continuum of social services for families in need. The Center provides supervised visitation and behavior modification as well as a Therapeutic Foster Care & Adoption program.
McNabb Center Substance Use Treament
The McNabb Center offers a full continuum of substance use treatment services from residential care to Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT). The McNabb Center is the region’s leading nonprofit provider of mental health, substance use, social and victim services.
Safe Baby Court helps parents identify their needs, access necessary resources and empowers parents and families to advocate for themselves and to flourish long term. The mission is to drive best practices for babies, toddlers and families and to steer the child welfare system toward more successful outcomes for this vulnerable population.
​Children and relative caregivers enrolled in the state program can receive supportive services such as information and referrals, access to support groups, respite care, and family advocacy assistance.