FAMILIES UNITED NETWORK
Families United Network and Trinity Institution are pleased to announce an exciting new partnership. A Families United Network Parent Partner is housed in the Family and Neighborhood Resource Center. Families United Network staff are parents of children who have emotional or behavioral challenges and have been involved in the system in order to get help. The Parent Partner has a dual role within the agency and works with families of the South End and Arbor Hill. The Parent Partner provides advocacy and parent to parent support services to parents who are having behavioral difficulties with their children. This service can include helping a family have their child evaluated through the Committee on Special Education, attending an intake meeting at Probation, providing information on a specific program or topic or just meeting with a parent to talk and provide emotional support. One of the goals is for the Parent Partner to identify the common needs of the parents living in the South End and then develop programs, such as a support group or training, to meet the need. The other role of the Parent Partner takes is to acting as a consultant to the staff at Trinity Institution. Please contact Joanne Miller M, W, F at 518-449-5155 x101 for more information.
***FAMILIES UNITED NETWORK UPDATE***
Families United Network has announced that Trinity Institution-Homer Perkins Center, Inc. will be recognized for its friendly approach to working with families with the 2006 SUPPORTING FAMILIES AWARD!
PRISON FAMILIES OF NEW YORK
CHILDREN OF PRISONERS INITIATIVE
Trinity Institution is working to develop resources and special events for South End children and families of people incarcerated, primarily in NYS prisons. Trinity Institution stations personnel in the courthouse and at the agency to reach those affected by prision issues. Please contact Benna Eldridge or Rhonda Brown at 518-449-5155 x127 or x106 respectively.
ST. PATRICK'S HOME BASED CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP
Trinity Institution welcomes St. Patrick's Home Based Child Care Partnership along with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany and Capital District Child Care Coordinating Council as a cooperative support network to start, improve and maintain a child care business. St. Patrick's helps individuals by providing free information and answering questions regarding the start up of home child care businesses. Please contact Benna Eldridge or Rhonda Brown at 518-449-5155 x127 or x106 respectively to make an appointment with Ms. Emily Gilbert who has office hours at Trinity Institution on Mondays between 11:00 and 2:00.
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access to bulk purchasing to reduce the cost of running your small business
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planning for the State mandated 15-hour Health and Safety Training and CPR/First Aid certification.
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credited training as you open and maintain your family day care business, and a support network from other home based day care providers. Finally, a neighborhood based support network for your small business!
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRACTICE
Trinity Institution maintains a partnership with restorative practice consultants John Cutro. Mr. Cutro is certified by the International Institute for Restorative Practices and intervenes at the epicenter of complex incidents and situations causing ongoing harm to our youth, families and communities. He combines assertive and culturally competent community outreach with family group and serious offense restorative conferencing to achieve a performance target of 95% of participants expressing significant positive understandings they believe would not have occurred without the conferencing process. Other outcomes include reduction in harmful behaviors and situations including ongoing cyclic retribution for real and perceived harms, group and neighborhood rivalries, fear-motivated truancy, youth criminal justice or gang involvement and placement outside the family. To engage these services please contact Benna Eldridge or Rhonda Brown at 518-449-5155 x127 or x106 respectively.
ROOTS (Re-entry Opportunities and Orientations Towards Success)
ROOTS provides regualar sessions and suport groups to parolees being released from NYS correctional facilities and returning to their communities in the City of Albany. These sessions offer support, hope and proven suggestions from ROOTS members on how to make a positive and sustained re-entry back into the community.
ROOTS was established in 1997 by ex-offenders and supporters from the Capital Region. Our mission is to serve as a model and support to help ex-offenders make a positive and constructive re-entry back into their communities. ROOTS works with individuals, families, organizations, government agencies and communities to further the goals of re-entry. ROOTS also strives to enhance community awareness of re-entry issues, provide youth with positive alternatives to criminal and other negative behaviors and to provide technical assistance to re-entry initiatives.
The sessions will be done monthly at Trinity Instituiton. For more information contact Brother Yusef @ 225-8847 or Charles LaCourt @ 434-1026.
TROY BIKE RESCUE
Trinity Institution-Homer Perkins Center, Inc. has given the Troy Bike Rescue a permanant space in the agency to run a repair workshop. This workshop is run on a continual basis to train youth and families from the South End and Arbor Hill of Albany in the areas of mechanics and repair. Once repaired, by virtue of their work and investment in the bike, it them becomes the property of that person. Members of the Troy Bike Rescue reapir surplus bikes which are then given away to organizations serving needy populations.
For more information on The Troy Bike Rescue please check out their website at:
www.troybikerescue.org
KINSHIP CARE
Catholic Charities provides specialized support services to grandparents and other relatives who are raising children. These support groups occur twice monthly and include parenting instruction and discussion groups, support groups for children, as well as recreation for all, and all sessions include a healthy meal. Please Benna Eldridge or Rhonda Brown at 518-449-5155 x127 or x106
CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
Our agency maintains a wide reaching partnership with Cornell Cooperative extention enabling us to provide nutrition education, gardening instruction, parenting classes, 4-H activities and much more. For information please contact Benna Eldridge or Rhonda Brown at 518-449-5155 x127 or x106
AGENCY AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Food Pantries of the Capital District
Albany – Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce
National Black Child Development Institute – Albany Chapter
South End Neighborhood Association
Arbor Hill Neighborhood Association
South End Action Committee
Arbor Hill Implementation Team
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies
Capital District Child Care Coordinating Council
Nonprofit Executive Roundtable, Center for Women in Government
& Civil Society
Capital District Chess Federation
National Institution on Drug Abuse
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
Council of Community Services of New York State
The South End Partnership for Safe Families
Albany Area Teen Consortium
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Retired Senior Volunteer Program
