• Parental Support–Parent Aide: Parent coaching and support In collaboration with parent(s), a Game Plan is developed that supports improved mental health, self-esteem, parenting, and social functioning. Goal: Helping parents be better prepared to support their children and household. • Clinical Evaluations: NECS provides more in-depth assessments to target service needs. Our “Expanded Parenting and Individual Evaluation” options and a new “Psychological Testing” service use quantitative measures. A clinically informed qualitative evaluation combined with selected quantitative measures can produce more accurate, well rounded, and comprehensive reviews of a parent/family’s functioning. • PREP–Professional Readiness and Employment Program: A professional readiness and engagement program. Goal: To make significant improvements in communication, leadership, adaptability, time management, and collaboration skills of participants. LinkedIn identified these areas as the top five soft skills most required for successful employment. Goal: To also impact the participant’s mindset towards becoming motivated, proactive, resilient, and self-confident young people. • Aftercare: This program is designed for participants whose case is officially closed but with whom we stay connected in order to complete outstanding goals/work. Goal: Ensuring families remained connected and received individualized services needed to complete their goals. NECS also offers various service offerings that are open to all NECS participants, regardless of the program. • F.I.T. (Finding Inner Toughness): A fitness and nutrition series.Goal: Ensuring youth cultivate a lifestyle of physical fitness and health • PARENT INITIATIVE: Parent groups and programming for mothers and fathers. Goal: Providing families in the community with wrap-around support services and support. • Remote Academic Engagement (RAE): NECS offers distant learning support, tutoring, and other academic supports for students who want to improve educationally. The program includes a music and arts engagement component. • MAL (Malchester Reeves Scholarship Fund): The Malchester Reeves Scholarship Fund is designed to recognize and provide capacity support for students who exemplify the values of integrity and scholarship for NECS clients. Goal: Providing access to computers, financial support for college courses, and coaching for emerging college students.
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