The Families First is a short-term intensive program designed to prevent the removal of children from their homes who are at risk of being placed outside of the home due to abuse, neglect or delinquency.  Families First also provides intensive service to a family in order to facilitate a child (ren) return home and reintegration back into the family.

The Family Reunification program provides strength-based, flexible, intensive in-home services to families whose children are being returned home after a temporary out-of-home placement—usually in Foster care.  

The program helps families to re-stabilize as they prepare for their children to return home.   This is done through non-traditional, flexible, individualized strengthened based services.
Workers strive to meet the needs of each family by providing quarterly recreational and educational activities, parent education and therapeutic services.

Families are expected to successfully complete a series of goals to remove the conditions, which placed their children into out-of-home care.  With a referral to a Family Reunification program, many families can have their children placed back into the home while completing their goals.

Wraparound is a program that works with children and families to best meet their needs through developing independent and specifically tailored services on behalf of each family member.  Wraparound promotes community-based options for families with complex needs by linking families needs to local community services, helping family members to become self-sufficient and fully integrated within their communities.  The key concept is for the local community to “wrap” its collective services “around” a family in need.

Acknowledgement:
Oakland County Wraparound and Director, Marcy Johnson were named “Most Collaborative Agency by the Oakland County Human Services Community Council

Proud Fathers-Proud Parents is designed to strengthen families and to improve outcomes for children.  This program provides fatherhood and parenting services that promote individual and shared parental responsibility, strengthens family relationships and seeks to improve the overall co-parenting skills among couples.

Program Success
Received the award of “Outstanding Service Recognition” for a new program from the Michigan Department of Human Services for servicing 59 participants in their first cycle of workshops. These collaborative partnerships have produced a synergy that is aligned with Spectrum’s commitment, for over 30 years, to provide the best services to help people achieve their highest potential

The Your Choice program services youth ages 7-14 years who reside in the City of Detroit and who are at risk of becoming a substance abuser due to a parent or family member’s substance abuse or environmental; factors in the community, i.e.; high drug trafficking within the neighborhood.  The goal is to educate and maximize deterrence of youth becoming involved in substance abuse.  The program utilizes individual, family and group educational, recreational and cultural activities to achieve this goal.