Everyone deserves a healthy relationship… and so does your child.
If a boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, or close friend who is not the parent of your child engages in abusive behavior, it affects your child too. Even in the absence of abuse, there are warning signs that everyone can look for.
The Center of Family Safety and Healing has provided a list of questions to consider when starting or deepening a partner relationship:
Educate yourself about the 3 R’s: Recognize signs. Respond appropriately. Refer concerns of abuse.
For more information contact the Center for Family Safety and Healing.
Learn more by downloading the Healthy Relationship Fact Sheet provided by The Center for Family Safety and Healing.
January is National Mentoring Month. With the success of our first Sixty for Six cohort, we are looking for 60 new dedicated individuals to serve as mentors over a six-month period with young people who are involved with FCCS.
We can’t protect our daughters from the world, but parents can offer empathy and a safe space to talk. Franklin County Children Services is teaming up with The Center for Healthy Families to help daughters overcome teen challenges so they can become more resilient adults.