Special Programs
CAFY Counseling offers help to adults and children with different therapy types.
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Special Programs
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Survivors
Domestic violence counseling and domestic violence therapy represent powerful tools for helping victims of domestic violence get to safety and heal. Abused adults and children both need domestic violence counseling in order to move past their traumatic experiences.
Military and Veterans
Many military veterans experience a group of mental health conditions that tend to disproportionately affect military personnel. These conditions may include post traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, traumatic brain injury, and substance abuse, among other issues. Due to the traumatic environment in which active military combatants serve, veterans are at a significantly higher risk for developing these health concerns.
Families
Family therapy is often short term. It may include all family members or just those able or willing to participate. Your specific treatment plan will depend on your family's situation. Family therapy sessions can teach you skills to deepen family connections and get through stressful times, even after you're done going to therapy sessions.
Women/Men Support Groups
In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and non-material, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic.
Children and Adolescents
Psychotherapy helps children and adolescents in a variety of ways. They receive emotional support, resolve conflicts with people, understand feelings and problems, and try out new solutions to old problems. Goals for therapy may be specific (change in behavior, improved relations with friends or family), or more general (less anxiety, better self-esteem). The length of psychotherapy depends on the complexity and severity of problems.
Home Visits
Candidates for home visits are clients who: (1) do not have any means of transportation, (2) may have a health condition that restricts them from traveling, (3) have a fear pr are afraid to leave their home after the incident, (4) or have children.
Safe Transfer/ Supervised Visitation
Our Safe Transfer Exchanged Program (STEP) was established to provide visitation and exchange services between divorced or separated parents. Staff helps to ensure a safe and secure setting for the child, free from parental conflict.
Visitation rooms are set up in a comfortable environment with a variety of toys and games that allow for positive parent/child interaction. Visits are scheduled between the hours 5 pm to 8 pm on Wednesdays, Fridays, or Sundays.
Wednesdays & Fridays: 4 pm-7:30 pm
Sundays: 12 pm- 4 pm
Fees For Visitation Services
Intake/Orientation: $15 per parent (is applied towards the first exchange)
Supervised Visitation: $40 per hour
Safe Exchange: $15 per parent per weekend exchange
Late Cancellation/ No Show: $20
Sliding Scale spots are available based on need. Ask about our pro-bono slots.
CAFY reserves the right to refuse services when they cannot be conducted in a safe and amicable way.
Scheduling Services:
Once you have been referred for a Supervised Visitation or Exchange, it is up to you to contact the STEP office to make arrangements. Our Supervised Visitation Coordinator can be reached at 301-883-7322.
Achieving Financial Stability
This program offers financial education, micro-enterprise support, loans, micro-loans, and match of savings for client bank accounts. Each year, the fund supports twenty-five Allstate Foundation's Financial Empowerment participants.
Workshops
DV101 training provides an overview of the dynamics and prevalence of domestic violence, and teaches participants effective advocacy skills that support safety and empowerment across systems. Topics covered during the training include the Culture of Domestic Violence, Dynamics of Abusive Relationships, Empowerment Advocacy, Risk Assessment, Safety Planning and Community Resources. Discussion about the Criminal Justice and Civil Justice Systems and Protection from Abuse Orders.
Participants move, do, think and experience the lives of battered women or teen. The kit is for any group of teens or adults. Participants become one of characters based on the experiences of real survivorship including sexting, pregnancy, domestic violence, and stalking. They make choices about their relationships and move through the scenario based on interactions with their partner, family, friends, counselors, police, and others.
Survivors of violence are usually the best judges of the dangers their abusers pose to them. An advocate can help a battered survivor assess the risk the batterer poses to her and develop a practical plan to keep herself safe. While evaluating risks and creating safety plans can help a woman, safety planning is no guarantee that she will not be injured. A safety plan is a plan a woman makes in which she identifies ways she can protect herself during a violent incident and reduce the risk of serious harm. The need and methods of the advocate is to help the survivor evaluate their options and, based on this evaluation, create a safety strategy or plan. .The task of the advocate is to help the woman evaluate these options and, based on this evaluation, create a safety strategy or plan. A safety plan is a plan a woman makes in which she identifies ways she can protect herself during a violent incident and reduce the risk of serious harm.
How does early childhood experiences shape our children? What role do the negative experiences of stress and trauma play? How resilient are our children? Can resiliency be built? ACE vs Resiliency will look into types of stress and trauma, and other risk factors as it relates to children. It will explore the impact of trauma and identify how to promote resiliency in the classroom, at home and in social interactions. Participants will be able to recognize signs of trauma and implement suggested resiliency skills and techniques.
Check our calendar for special workshop dates.