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Family Success Centers (FSC) are community-based, family-centered neighborhood gathering places where any community resident can go for family support, information, and services. Family Success Centers aim to enrich the lives of children and adults by making families and neighborhoods stronger by helping and empowering families to succeed.

Goals

The overarching goal of Family Success Centers is to:

Prevent child maltreatment by strengthening individual and family functioning
Enhancing parental capacity for growth and development
Increasing the stability, health and well-being of children and families
Empowering community residents to acquire the knowledge, skills and resources they need to succeed and provide optimal outcomes for children and families.

The Family Success Centers work in collaboration with families to identify and resolve issues so that families can move towards self-sufficiency.

Core Values

The FSCs embody the Department of Children and Families Core Values and are grounded in the following:

New Jersey Standards for Prevention Programs: Building Success through Family Support
Protective Factors outlined in Supporting Strong Families and Communities in New Jersey: Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect, 2014 – 2017
Principles of Family Support Practice

Family Success Centers

Atlantic County Government, through funding from and in collaboration with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, contracts with broker agencies to manage three Family Success Centers in the following communities: Galloway, Egg Harbor Township, and Hammonton. Family Services Association is the broker agency that manages the centers in Galloway and Egg Harbor Township. AtlantiCare Behavioral Health is the broker agency that manages the center in Hammonton.

Parent Community Advisory Board

Each FSC has a Parent Community Advisory Board (PCAB) whose membership is representative of the community and families utilizing the center. The PCAB is responsible for the following:

Conducting surveys of local needs
Developing recommendations for continued program improvement
Assisting the FSC in attracting resources and community participation
Participating in FSC activities and events
Conducting evaluations and satisfaction surveys, identifying strengths and needs in the community and proposing services that meet those needs.

The PCAB members serve as ambassadors and help build bridges into the community.

Core Services

The FSCs provide the following Core Services:

Access to Child, Maternal and Family Health Services
Parent Education/Parent Child Activities
Employment-Related Services
Life Skills
Housing Related Services
Advocacy & Related Support
General Information and Referral/Linkages

The FSCs provide these core services in consultation with their individual PCABs and in response to the unique needs of their individual communities; therefore, each center may provide different programming under the same core service.