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Trauma Recovery Center
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TRC Helpline: 917-444-1908
A Compassionate Journey to Healing
The Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) of Rising Ground aims to help victims of violent crimes overcome barriers to accessing mental health treatment, health care, and legal resources in the acute aftermath of trauma.
Our Services
The TRC of Rising Ground provides services through an innovative model that blends comprehensive care, compassionate advocacy, and intentional outreach with the goal of transforming how survivors of violent crime are supported. Our trauma-informed approach centers healing, while our commitment to social justice ensures that care is accessible, culturally responsive, and driven by the voices and needs of survivors themselves.
Individual Therapy
- Evidence-Based clinical therapy for all ages offered in Haitian-Creole, English, and Spanish
- Therapeutic assessment
- Safety-Planning
Clinical Advocacy
Advocacy and outreach tailored to each person’s unique needs. Clinical case management includes:
- Referral services
- Advocacy
- Economic empowerment
- Client emergency funding
- Assertive outreach & engagement
- Financial planning
- Child-Care planning
Holistic Healing
- Reiki
- Meditation
- Sound healing
- Self-care support
- Art & Music
Who is Eligible?
All survivors of trauma are accepted regardless of citizenship status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, religion/spirituality, nationality, socioeconomics, and insurance status.
How is “Trauma” Defined?
If you have experienced violence, crime or suffered a severe traumatic event that resulted in severe change in daily life that is unsustainable, within the past 3 years*
We support victims of violent crimes including, but not limited to, sexual assault, community violence, domestic violence, battery, physical assault, gun violence, vehicular assault, law enforcement violence, immigration violence, human trafficking, and family members who have lost a loved one to homicide.
*There is no time limit for derivative victim(s) of homicide.
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Empowering Healing. Embracing Hope.
TRC Helpline: 917-444-1908
A Compassionate Journey to Healing
The Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) of Rising Ground aims to help victims of violent crimes overcome barriers to accessing mental health treatment, health care, and legal resources in the acute aftermath of trauma.
Our Services
The TRC of Rising Ground provides services through an innovative model that blends comprehensive care, compassionate advocacy, and intentional outreach with the goal of transforming how survivors of violent crime are supported. Our trauma-informed approach centers healing, while our commitment to social justice ensures that care is accessible, culturally responsive, and driven by the voices and needs of survivors themselves.
Individual Therapy
- Evidence-Based clinical therapy for all ages offered in Haitian-Creole, English, and Spanish
- Therapeutic assessment
- Safety-Planning
Clinical Advocacy
Advocacy and outreach tailored to each person’s unique needs. Clinical case management includes:
- Referral services
- Advocacy
- Economic empowerment
- Client emergency funding
- Assertive outreach & engagement
- Financial planning
- Child-Care planning
Holistic Healing
- Reiki
- Meditation
- Sound healing
- Self-care support
- Art & Music
Who is Eligible?
All survivors of trauma are accepted regardless of citizenship status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, religion/spirituality, nationality, socioeconomics, and insurance status.
How is “Trauma” Defined?
If you have experienced violence, crime or suffered a severe traumatic event that resulted in severe change in daily life that is unsustainable, within the past 3 years*
We support victims of violent crimes including, but not limited to, sexual assault, community violence, domestic violence, battery, physical assault, gun violence, vehicular assault, law enforcement violence, immigration violence, human trafficking, and family members who have lost a loved one to homicide.
*There is no time limit for derivative victim(s) of homicide.
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Supervised Independent Living Programs (SILP)
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Youth in a SILP program live independently and do not require the 24-hour supervision of a family foster home or group residence. Youth entering a SILP will be provided with supportive services which encourage personal growth and development and empower them to make mature and healthy decisions.
What We Do
Rising Ground's Supervised Independent Living Programs (SILP) are group residences for 12 young adults, ages 18 to 20, with significant trauma histories resulting in behavioral, emotional, and functional issues. The young people come from the five boroughs and are referred to us by the NYC Administration for Children's Services.
SILP residences provide a safe, nurturing environment committed to helping residents heal from past traumas. Residents are provided with the tools and resources to develop the skills needed to live more independently.
During their stay, which can be up to 12-18 months, we help youth learn how
to problem-solve more effectively, build skills to have better control
over their future, and develop self awareness and self-confidence to achieve their aspirations, all while teaching practical skills including home maintenance, meal preparation, financial literacy, and time management.
SILP services include:
- SILP Services
- Therapeutic crisis intervention
- Medical services & medication management
- Case management
- Psychiatric services
- Support with independent living
- Substance abuse screening
- Recreational services
- Referral to community services
- Job opportunities & vocational training
- Fair Futures coaching
SILP residences feature:
- • Individual single bedrooms in an apartment-style setting with communal spaces
• WI Fl access
• 24 hour staff support
• 24 hour access to direct care services
• Short walk to NYC mass transit services
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Transitional housing & support services for youth leaving foster care.
Youth in a SILP program live independently and do not require the 24-hour supervision of a family foster home or group residence. Youth entering a SILP will be provided with supportive services which encourage personal growth and development and empower them to make mature and healthy decisions.
What We Do
Rising Ground’s Supervised Independent Living Programs (SILP) are group residences for 12 young adults, ages 18 to 20, with significant trauma histories resulting in behavioral, emotional, and functional issues. The young people come from the five boroughs and are referred to us by the NYC Administration for Children’s Services.
SILP residences provide a safe, nurturing environment committed to helping residents heal from past traumas. Residents are provided with the tools and resources to develop the skills needed to live more independently.
During their stay, which can be up to 12-18 months, we help youth learn how
to problem-solve more effectively, build skills to have better control
over their future, and develop self awareness and self-confidence to achieve their aspirations, all while teaching practical skills including home maintenance, meal preparation, financial literacy, and time management.
SILP services include:
- SILP Services
- Therapeutic crisis intervention
- Medical services & medication management
- Case management
- Psychiatric services
- Support with independent living
- Substance abuse screening
- Recreational services
- Referral to community services
- Job opportunities & vocational training
- Fair Futures coaching
SILP residences feature:
- • Individual single bedrooms in an apartment-style setting with communal spaces
• WI Fl access
• 24 hour staff support
• 24 hour access to direct care services
• Short walk to NYC mass transit services
Anti-Human Trafficking
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Rising Ground's Anti-Human-Trafficking program approach includes:
- training and consultation
- risk assessment and safety planning
- crisis and clinical interventions
- mentoring and counseling
- community outreach, workshops, and collaborations
Through this approach Rising Ground aims to enhance access to support for young people, amplify within our organization, mitigate the criminalization of young people, and empower the communities of young people who at risk for human trafficking.
Rising Ground's Anti-Human Trafficking program offers:
- Workshops for youth ages 12-21 at your school or within your community settings
- Counseling Groups for young people ages 12-21
- Screening young people who may be at risk of trafficking
- Workshops for staff working with young people who may experience trafficking
- Youth ages 12-21 who are new to this country
What is Human Trafficking?
Human Trafficking is a crime committed against a person. Human Trafficking can happen to anyone, regardless of age or gender expression. People can be trafficked for sex or labor. Human Trafficking effects almost 300,000 young people each year.
Recruitment and What To Watch Out For
Traffickers will look for people that are vulnerable. They want to make connections with young people and choose to look for youth in public places such as malls, schools, subways, bus stations, and they patrol certain neighborhoods.
Human traffickers frequently target those who may have runaway, be in foster care, or displaced from their home, be part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Traffickers may be someone you know or someone you’re meeting for the first time.
Online Enticement
Traffickers are looking to lure young people online. Traffickers will try several tactics to make connections online through:
- Online Gaming
- Social Media
- Discord
- Chat featured apps
It Is Not Your Fault!
If this happens to you or someone you know, there is help available. There are laws that protect minors from being held criminally responsible.
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Protecting Victims. Preventing Harm.
Rising Ground’s Anti-Human-Trafficking program approach includes:
- training and consultation
- risk assessment and safety planning
- crisis and clinical interventions
- mentoring and counseling
- community outreach, workshops, and collaborations
Through this approach Rising Ground aims to enhance access to support for young people, amplify within our organization, mitigate the criminalization of young people, and empower the communities of young people who at risk for human trafficking.
Rising Ground’s Anti-Human Trafficking program offers:
- Workshops for youth ages 12-21 at your school or within your community settings
- Counseling Groups for young people ages 12-21
- Screening young people who may be at risk of trafficking
- Workshops for staff working with young people who may experience trafficking
- Youth ages 12-21 who are new to this country
What is Human Trafficking?
Human Trafficking is a crime committed against a person. Human Trafficking can happen to anyone, regardless of age or gender expression. People can be trafficked for sex or labor. Human Trafficking effects almost 300,000 young people each year.
Recruitment and What To Watch Out For
Traffickers will look for people that are vulnerable. They want to make connections with young people and choose to look for youth in public places such as malls, schools, subways, bus stations, and they patrol certain neighborhoods.
Human traffickers frequently target those who may have runaway, be in foster care, or displaced from their home, be part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Traffickers may be someone you know or someone you’re meeting for the first time.
Online Enticement
Traffickers are looking to lure young people online. Traffickers will try several tactics to make connections online through:
- Online Gaming
- Social Media
- Discord
- Chat featured apps
It Is Not Your Fault!
If this happens to you or someone you know, there is help available. There are laws that protect minors from being held criminally responsible.
Foundation Place: Center Based Respite
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24/7 Parent Hotline: 1-888-435-7553
Foundation Place provides parents/guardians with short-term childcare services at our Brooklyn facility that offer temporary relief, improves family stability, and reduce the risk of undesirable circumstances. Respite can be planned or offered during emergencies and times of crisis. Foundation Place allows parents/guardians to attend outpatient services, schedule appointments for themselves, or simply take time to recharge knowing their child or children are temporarily safe and cared for. Foundation Place is open 24/7 and children aged 0 - 14 can stay with us up to 21 days.
Our Mission
Provide prompt relief for parents/guardians who need respite.
Provide a safe space for children during a crisis or emergency.
Identify strengths/concerns so that appropriate intervention can be planned and implemented.
Provide assistance in identifying family and community-based support.
Help parents/guardians recognize when they are in need of intervention.
Develop a cooperative child-oriented team with staff that is empathetic, caring, and non-judgmental.
FAQs
What age group do you serve?
Care is provided to children aged 0-14.
How many children does the program house?
Foundation Place can house 10 children in total.
What does this respite care cost?
Services are FREE.
What are the operating hours?
Foundation Place is a 24/7 facility where children can stay up to 21 days.
Can you provide care in my home?
Foundation Place is facility-based care. Referrals for home-based services can be made by the case planner as needed.
How do I Enroll?
Contact our Parent Help Line (1-888-435-7553) to speak to Foundation Place administrative staff.
During this call you will be asked to provide information regarding your request for respite services which will be used to determine your eligibility.
Some information you will need to provide includes:
Contact information
Reason for respite care
Length of service needed
Child(ren)’s healthcare/insurance information
Child(ren)’s education information
Note: Foundation Place offers facility-based care only - not home services.
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Respite = a short period of rest or relief from something difficult.
24/7 Parent Hotline: 1-888-435-7553
Foundation Place provides parents/guardians with short-term childcare services at our Brooklyn facility that offer temporary relief, improves family stability, and reduce the risk of undesirable circumstances. Respite can be planned or offered during emergencies and times of crisis. Foundation Place allows parents/guardians to attend outpatient services, schedule appointments for themselves, or simply take time to recharge knowing their child or children are temporarily safe and cared for. Foundation Place is open 24/7 and children aged 0 – 14 can stay with us up to 21 days.
Our Mission
Provide prompt relief for parents/guardians who need respite.
Provide a safe space for children during a crisis or emergency.
Identify strengths/concerns so that appropriate intervention can be planned and implemented.
Provide assistance in identifying family and community-based support.
Help parents/guardians recognize when they are in need of intervention.
Develop a cooperative child-oriented team with staff that is empathetic, caring, and non-judgmental.
FAQs
What age group do you serve?
Care is provided to children aged 0-14.
How many children does the program house?
Foundation Place can house 10 children in total.
What does this respite care cost?
Services are FREE.
What are the operating hours?
Foundation Place is a 24/7 facility where children can stay up to 21 days.
Can you provide care in my home?
Foundation Place is facility-based care. Referrals for home-based services can be made by the case planner as needed.
How do I Enroll?
Contact our Parent Help Line (1-888-435-7553) to speak to Foundation Place administrative staff.
During this call you will be asked to provide information regarding your request for respite services which will be used to determine your eligibility.
Some information you will need to provide includes:
Contact information
Reason for respite care
Length of service needed
Child(ren)’s healthcare/insurance information
Child(ren)’s education information
Note: Foundation Place offers facility-based care only – not home services.
Support For People Who Cause Harm
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Fatherhood Initiative
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Having an engaged and supportive father in their life has lasting benefits for children. Studies have shown that children with involved fathers are less likely to get into trouble at home, school, or in the neighborhood. An active and nurturing style of fathering is associated with better verbal skills for infants, greater patience for toddlers, and better intellectual functioning and academic achievement among adolescents. Children with involved fathers are more likely to exhibit self-control and pro-social behavior.
For non-custodial fathers and those facing challenges in their own lives, providing the kind of support and forming the kind of relationships that will provide a positive influence in the lives of their children is not always easy. Strained relationships with custodial parents, past family issues, and various challenges in their own lives can lead fathers to disengage or engage in a way that is not beneficial to children or families.
Rising Ground’s Fatherhood Initiative works with non-custodial fathers to improve relationships with their children and to enhance their children's development through programs that encourage fathers to become personally involved with their children and relate to their co-parents. This free 3-month program helps fathers to obtain greater insights on parenting while also providing programs focused on various life skills that might impact their relationships with their children.
We help fathers develop greater parenting skills while also understanding and addressing the circumstances facing non-custodial fathers as we work with them to establish positive, healthy, supportive relationships with their children. Some of the challenges that are addressed may include past trauma and past family struggles that are being repeated; difficult relationships with a child’s co-parent; and surmounting challenges such as unemployment, financial hardship, homelessness, and incarceration.
The Fatherhood Initiative includes workshops twice a week, one-to-one mentoring services, credit repair workshops, co-parenting workshops, employment assistance, free monthly family activities, and domestic abuse intervention classes. By bringing fathers together, we look to share insights and struggles and take a holistic approach to improving the father and child’s relationship and experience for those we support.
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Supporting Fathers to Improve Relationships With Their Children
Having an engaged and supportive father in their life has lasting benefits for children. Studies have shown that children with involved fathers are less likely to get into trouble at home, school, or in the neighborhood. An active and nurturing style of fathering is associated with better verbal skills for infants, greater patience for toddlers, and better intellectual functioning and academic achievement among adolescents. Children with involved fathers are more likely to exhibit self-control and pro-social behavior.
For non-custodial fathers and those facing challenges in their own lives, providing the kind of support and forming the kind of relationships that will provide a positive influence in the lives of their children is not always easy. Strained relationships with custodial parents, past family issues, and various challenges in their own lives can lead fathers to disengage or engage in a way that is not beneficial to children or families.
Rising Ground’s Fatherhood Initiative works with non-custodial fathers to improve relationships with their children and to enhance their children’s development through programs that encourage fathers to become personally involved with their children and relate to their co-parents. This free 3-month program helps fathers to obtain greater insights on parenting while also providing programs focused on various life skills that might impact their relationships with their children.
We help fathers develop greater parenting skills while also understanding and addressing the circumstances facing non-custodial fathers as we work with them to establish positive, healthy, supportive relationships with their children. Some of the challenges that are addressed may include past trauma and past family struggles that are being repeated; difficult relationships with a child’s co-parent; and surmounting challenges such as unemployment, financial hardship, homelessness, and incarceration.
The Fatherhood Initiative includes workshops twice a week, one-to-one mentoring services, credit repair workshops, co-parenting workshops, employment assistance, free monthly family activities, and domestic abuse intervention classes. By bringing fathers together, we look to share insights and struggles and take a holistic approach to improving the father and child’s relationship and experience for those we support.
Preventive Services
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A strong, nurturing family is the foundation of every child’s success. Promoting child safety and prosperity by strengthening and preserving families is at the heart of all our work. Yet, families sometimes struggle to build and maintain a supportive, healthy home where children can thrive. Our Family Stabilization program offers families facing a wide array of challenges the support they need to remain together. Although families come to us in times of crisis and under stress, they emerge stable, strong, and secure.
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Overcoming Challenges to Thrive
We help families discover their own strengths and build upon those strengths using evidence-based models with proven records of achievement. We work with each family and family member to resolve the conflicts that brought them to a crisis point, working toward a belief that change is possible. Then, we work together to create plans that become the roadmap to the family’s — and each family member’s — success. As families set their own goals, we also guide them to any additional resources needed, such as food, housing, or healthcare.
And the work isn’t just about helping families address momentary crises. We equip them with communication skills, knowledge of resources and a network of support for today and the future.
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A Community-Based Approach
We work with families in their communities to ensure their full participation in the process and build trust. Our social workers visit families in their home so all family members can be included. We tailor plans to be responsive to cultural beliefs and each person’s approach to problem-solving. Wherever a family is, we meet them at their comfort level — whether it be in their own living room, on a basketball court or at the neighborhood diner.
Thanks to these interventions, we keep 98% of families safely together and prevent foster care placement for hundreds of children each year.
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Building Strong, Nurturing Families
A strong, nurturing family is the foundation of every child’s success. Promoting child safety and prosperity by strengthening and preserving families is at the heart of all our work. Yet, families sometimes struggle to build and maintain a supportive, healthy home where children can thrive. Our Family Stabilization program offers families facing a wide array of challenges the support they need to remain together. Although families come to us in times of crisis and under stress, they emerge stable, strong, and secure.
Overcoming Challenges to Thrive
We help families discover their own strengths and build upon those strengths using evidence-based models with proven records of achievement. We work with each family and family member to resolve the conflicts that brought them to a crisis point, working toward a belief that change is possible. Then, we work together to create plans that become the roadmap to the family’s — and each family member’s — success. As families set their own goals, we also guide them to any additional resources needed, such as food, housing, or healthcare.
And the work isn’t just about helping families address momentary crises. We equip them with communication skills, knowledge of resources and a network of support for today and the future.
A Community-Based Approach
We work with families in their communities to ensure their full participation in the process and build trust. Our social workers visit families in their home so all family members can be included. We tailor plans to be responsive to cultural beliefs and each person’s approach to problem-solving. Wherever a family is, we meet them at their comfort level — whether it be in their own living room, on a basketball court or at the neighborhood diner.
Thanks to these interventions, we keep 98% of families safely together and prevent foster care placement for hundreds of children each year.
Mother & Child Program
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Family Is What You Make It
Imagine a teenager who hasn’t had a nurturing family of her own, who has been abused and neglected and suddenly becomes the mainstay of a family, responsible for the healthy development of a new baby.
Our Mother & Child program helps teen mothers in foster care create the strong families they may have never had and provide their children with love, guidance, and security. In a safe, nurturing environment, these young women learn to create lasting bonds with their children, develop parenting skills to ensure that their children are prepared to be successful, with the confidence they need to get ahead in their own lives.
The mother-and-child families at our residence in the Bronx may not be traditional, but they are grounded in the positive parenting practices of mothers who are dedicated to success in their own lives despite backgrounds that may include abuse, poverty, and homelessness.
Each mother and her child has a private room — a home of their own to decorate as they like, a place to be together as a family. Common areas provide opportunities for peer support and recreation, including a playroom so mothers and their children can play together. A study room gives young moms a place to focus on their schoolwork, and an onsite nursery ensures that their children are cared for by staff in a loving, familiar environment while mom is at school or work.
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Building on Personal Strengths to Create Loving Families
Our Mother & Child program helps teen mothers, who are just starting to plan their lives and with limited experience themselves being nurtured or cared for, learn parenting skills from the basics, like diapering and bathing a baby, to the more complex, such as how to read with their child or set boundaries.
While learning to be nurturing parents, our moms are also building the self confidence needed to move forward in their own lives, whether that means finishing high school or getting a job.
With the help of a multidisciplinary team using the Bright Beginnings/Personal Best model, these young mothers learn how to cope with the life’s challenges, from money management to good nutrition. In doing so, they learn that they are competent, capable and, finally, important to someone.
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Ensuring a Strong Foundation for Children
With nurturing moms taking care of them, the children in the Mother & Child program are off to a good start in life. Their mothers know how to help them learn so they have the pre-literacy skills needed to do well in school and to become confident, competent students. The Mother & Child program makes sure they have medical care and the formal preschool education they need to thrive and grow. They’ve got a healthy family.
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Supporting Young Mothers as They Become Parents
Family Is What You Make It
Imagine a teenager who hasn’t had a nurturing family of her own, who has been abused and neglected and suddenly becomes the mainstay of a family, responsible for the healthy development of a new baby.
Our Mother & Child program helps teen mothers in foster care create the strong families they may have never had and provide their children with love, guidance, and security. In a safe, nurturing environment, these young women learn to create lasting bonds with their children, develop parenting skills to ensure that their children are prepared to be successful, with the confidence they need to get ahead in their own lives.
The mother-and-child families at our residence in the Bronx may not be traditional, but they are grounded in the positive parenting practices of mothers who are dedicated to success in their own lives despite backgrounds that may include abuse, poverty, and homelessness.
Each mother and her child has a private room — a home of their own to decorate as they like, a place to be together as a family. Common areas provide opportunities for peer support and recreation, including a playroom so mothers and their children can play together. A study room gives young moms a place to focus on their schoolwork, and an onsite nursery ensures that their children are cared for by staff in a loving, familiar environment while mom is at school or work.
Building on Personal Strengths to Create Loving Families
Our Mother & Child program helps teen mothers, who are just starting to plan their lives and with limited experience themselves being nurtured or cared for, learn parenting skills from the basics, like diapering and bathing a baby, to the more complex, such as how to read with their child or set boundaries.
While learning to be nurturing parents, our moms are also building the self confidence needed to move forward in their own lives, whether that means finishing high school or getting a job.
With the help of a multidisciplinary team using the Bright Beginnings/Personal Best model, these young mothers learn how to cope with the life’s challenges, from money management to good nutrition. In doing so, they learn that they are competent, capable and, finally, important to someone.
Ensuring a Strong Foundation for Children
With nurturing moms taking care of them, the children in the Mother & Child program are off to a good start in life. Their mothers know how to help them learn so they have the pre-literacy skills needed to do well in school and to become confident, competent students. The Mother & Child program makes sure they have medical care and the formal preschool education they need to thrive and grow. They’ve got a healthy family.
Foster Care & Adoption
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Every Child Deserves a Loving Home
Home and family are the center of every child’s life. But what happens if that center falls apart? Who do children turn to?. Our Family Foster Care program provides safe and nurturing care in the homes of trained foster parents to children who temporarily cannot be with their birth families. At a time when it is needed most, we provide the caring support a child needs and, most importantly, deserves.
Grounded in our roots as an orphanage founded in 1831, we have been looking after and caring for children who have been unable to live with their parents for nearly two centuries – offering the commitment, encouragement, and resources that help guide a child’s and his/her family’s future toward a positive path. While working to ensure that the comprehensive therapeutic and educational needs of children are being met during this traumatic time in their lives, we concurrently work with birth parents to get them the help they need so they can be reunited with their children.
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Supporting Each Child’s Well-Being
Working together, our team of social workers and other trained staff make sure each child has the individualized support needed to get through this difficult time and cope with the impact of possible parental abuse or neglect. We place children with families in their own communities —with relatives or close family friends whenever possible — to provide continuity in their daily lives and so they can stay in the same school with people they know. And we provide and link children with everything from individual counseling and educational tutoring to behavioral supports and recreational activities to support their well-being.
We recognize the importance of well-informed, well-trained caregivers who can nurture and support children and teens. Our foster parents are part of a support team that makes sure everything possible is being done to help children with all their needs – healthcare, education, social activities, confidence-building. Foster parents receive intensive training so they understand how children respond to trauma and how to nurture healthy relationships. And we back them up — we can be reached 24/7 to help deal with any issue that comes up.
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Planning for the Future
From the moment a child comes into our care, we immediately begin to work toward permanency – a plan for a permanent home for every child. Family team conferences – which include each child (when old enough), birth parents and foster parents – to create a plan for support and permanency occur within the first week of placement. And while we support children in foster homes, we work intensively with birth parents to get them the help they need to be reunited with their children – anger management training, domestic violence support, substance abuse counseling. We offer additional assistance through the use of various evidence-based practice models to tailor the services and supports we offer.
All of our efforts have resulted in a history of success, reunified healthy families, stronger connections to community networks and lasting relationships with foster parents. In fact, we have been ranked as a citywide leader by New York City for reaching 100% of our goals in creating permanent and kin/relative connections for children in foster care with approximately 65% of our families achieving reunification after working diligently with our team.
And our work doesn’t stop when families are back together. We also provide transitional and continuing support to families to ensure bumps in the road with reunification are addressed in real time.
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Specialized Care for Teens that Need It Most
Our Treatment Foster Care Oregon Program (TFCO) is a specialized foster care program that supports youth ages 12 to 17 with significant behavioral or mental health challenges. TFCO is an evidence-based treatment program based on many years of research that helps to both promote and support a teen’s relationship with his/her family. Because TFCO values each family’s potential to provide guidance and support for their child’s positive adjustment, this treatment program helps us to provide family-driven care that works toward the important goal of reunification. Though this model, we help break down any road blocks to communication between teens and their parents, and teach families various parenting strategies that support and guide a teen’s positive behaviors. Caseworkers are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for questions, consultation and support.
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Adoption: Creating New Families
While we make every effort to reunite children with their parents, sometimes, families cannot give their children a healthy, safe and permanent home. When this is the case, we find loving adoptive homes for children— no matter their age. In fact, most children in our program who cannot be reunited with their birth families are adopted by foster parents with whom they have been with for an extended period of time and already have an established, loving relationship.
In preparation for adoption, we make sure that children and their new families have all the supports they need to stay on track in school, in good health, make friends and achieve their dreams and goals.
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Fostering Nurturing Families
Every Child Deserves a Loving Home
Home and family are the center of every child’s life. But what happens if that center falls apart? Who do children turn to?. Our Family Foster Care program provides safe and nurturing care in the homes of trained foster parents to children who temporarily cannot be with their birth families. At a time when it is needed most, we provide the caring support a child needs and, most importantly, deserves.
Grounded in our roots as an orphanage founded in 1831, we have been looking after and caring for children who have been unable to live with their parents for nearly two centuries – offering the commitment, encouragement, and resources that help guide a child’s and his/her family’s future toward a positive path. While working to ensure that the comprehensive therapeutic and educational needs of children are being met during this traumatic time in their lives, we concurrently work with birth parents to get them the help they need so they can be reunited with their children.
Supporting Each Child’s Well-Being
Working together, our team of social workers and other trained staff make sure each child has the individualized support needed to get through this difficult time and cope with the impact of possible parental abuse or neglect. We place children with families in their own communities —with relatives or close family friends whenever possible — to provide continuity in their daily lives and so they can stay in the same school with people they know. And we provide and link children with everything from individual counseling and educational tutoring to behavioral supports and recreational activities to support their well-being.
We recognize the importance of well-informed, well-trained caregivers who can nurture and support children and teens. Our foster parents are part of a support team that makes sure everything possible is being done to help children with all their needs – healthcare, education, social activities, confidence-building. Foster parents receive intensive training so they understand how children respond to trauma and how to nurture healthy relationships. And we back them up — we can be reached 24/7 to help deal with any issue that comes up.
Planning for the Future
From the moment a child comes into our care, we immediately begin to work toward permanency – a plan for a permanent home for every child. Family team conferences – which include each child (when old enough), birth parents and foster parents – to create a plan for support and permanency occur within the first week of placement. And while we support children in foster homes, we work intensively with birth parents to get them the help they need to be reunited with their children – anger management training, domestic violence support, substance abuse counseling. We offer additional assistance through the use of various evidence-based practice models to tailor the services and supports we offer.
All of our efforts have resulted in a history of success, reunified healthy families, stronger connections to community networks and lasting relationships with foster parents. In fact, we have been ranked as a citywide leader by New York City for reaching 100% of our goals in creating permanent and kin/relative connections for children in foster care with approximately 65% of our families achieving reunification after working diligently with our team.
And our work doesn’t stop when families are back together. We also provide transitional and continuing support to families to ensure bumps in the road with reunification are addressed in real time.
Specialized Care for Teens that Need It Most
Our Treatment Foster Care Oregon Program (TFCO) is a specialized foster care program that supports youth ages 12 to 17 with significant behavioral or mental health challenges. TFCO is an evidence-based treatment program based on many years of research that helps to both promote and support a teen’s relationship with his/her family. Because TFCO values each family’s potential to provide guidance and support for their child’s positive adjustment, this treatment program helps us to provide family-driven care that works toward the important goal of reunification. Though this model, we help break down any road blocks to communication between teens and their parents, and teach families various parenting strategies that support and guide a teen’s positive behaviors. Caseworkers are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for questions, consultation and support.
Adoption: Creating New Families
While we make every effort to reunite children with their parents, sometimes, families cannot give their children a healthy, safe and permanent home. When this is the case, we find loving adoptive homes for children— no matter their age. In fact, most children in our program who cannot be reunited with their birth families are adopted by foster parents with whom they have been with for an extended period of time and already have an established, loving relationship.
In preparation for adoption, we make sure that children and their new families have all the supports they need to stay on track in school, in good health, make friends and achieve their dreams and goals.
Contact us to learn more about becoming a foster parent!
Family Stabilization Services
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Rising Ground's Children & Family Services strengthen families, helping children and adults overcome challenges and crises in order to create stability. We advocate for the rights and well-being of children/youth and their families while ensuring fair and appropriate treatment. Services include Enhanced Family Foster Care, Preventive Services to support families that have experienced challenges in caring for their child, Parent Advocacy work to assist parents who are involved in the child welfare system by connecting them with others with lived experience, and services for youth involved in the criminal justice system.
This work relates directly to our founding as an orphan house in 1831. For nearly two centuries, we have evolved to meet the needs of families and ensure the safety and well-being of children in times of need.
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Helping Families Thrive & Grow
Rising Ground’s Children & Family Services strengthen families, helping children and adults overcome challenges and crises in order to create stability. We advocate for the rights and well-being of children/youth and their families while ensuring fair and appropriate treatment. Services include Enhanced Family Foster Care, Preventive Services to support families that have experienced challenges in caring for their child, Parent Advocacy work to assist parents who are involved in the child welfare system by connecting them with others with lived experience, and services for youth involved in the criminal justice system.
This work relates directly to our founding as an orphan house in 1831. For nearly two centuries, we have evolved to meet the needs of families and ensure the safety and well-being of children in times of need.
