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Fathers & Children Programs Available:

Overview: Fathers & Children

Family Counseling

Connections: Home-Based Counseling

Therapy Center

Parenting Education Seminar

Parenting Classes

Boot Camp For New Dads

Men's Intensive Outpatient

M.E.N.'s Group

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Overview: Fathers & Children

The presence of a father in a child's life is extremely important. It has been shown by the National Center for Educational Statistics that when a father is involved with their child's education, the child makes better grades, participates in more extra-curricular activities and generally enjoys going to school more. Twenty percent (20%) of single-parent households are headed by the father. Child & Family Tennessee offers many programs to help fathers succeed. Whether it's a soon-to-be first-time father or the father of a strong-willed teenager, we can help. We understand that fathers need just as much support as mothers during all events in life, so we strive to give fathers the tools they need to care for their families.

Some facts:

• One in every three families with abuse experience recurring violence

• One third of all boys reared in spouse-abusive homes become abusers

• Two thirds of all girls reared in spouse-abusive homes enter abusive relationships

• By educating parents about the effects of divorce on children, they can help their children to heal from the trauma of divorce.

• Studies have shown that families who receive in-home services are better able to manage their children and less likely to abuse or neglect them.

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Family Counseling

Family Counseling is a service offered through Child & Family Tennessee's Therapy Center. Our program helps anyone with emotional distress and allows families to access licensed, professional staff that can help with a wide variety of emotional, behavioral and family relationship problems. Specialty services are offered for sexual abuse, child behavior problems and substance abuse treatment. Though we serve families of every income level, we are often the only affordable resource for low income or working poor families with little to no insurance support. Our family counseling helps with family and personal problems in order to promote self-sufficiency. As a result, we see better job performance, better school performance, better family stability and relationships and families which can stay together and succeed.

There is a sliding fee scale for services and we accept TennCare and most insurance. For an appointment, call 865-246-1100. (Please see "Therapy Center" in the listing to the left.)

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Connections: Home-Based Counseling

Connections offers intensive in-home services that help families build connections with formal and informal community helping networks to help and support families when in need. Often, these services make it possible for a child to successfully remain with his or her family, eliminating the need for state care. In cases where children have already been removed from the home, Connections works with the child and his or her parents for a smooth transition back into the home so the child is successfully reunited with his or her family.

Families who safely remain together create children and communities that are emotionally, physically and spiritually stronger. By the time families have completed the Connections program; they use their existing strengths and build a natural supportive network. This leaves families stronger, with the ability to access more resources for themselves.

Services include:

• Assessments to identify strengths and needs

• Individual family plans

• Parenting skills training

• Safety planning

• Life skill training

• Nutrition

• Financial guidance and budgeting skills training

• Home safety, home repair and cleanliness

• Mental health, alcohol and drug assessments

• Referrals to community resources

There is a sliding fee scale for services and we accept TennCare and most insurance. For an appointment, call 865-246-1100.

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Therapy Center

"Nobody's family can hang out the sign, 'Nothing the matter here'." --Chinese proverb

The Therapy Center provides a variety of outpatient services that share the common goal of helping adults, adolescents, children and families overcome the difficulties that are impacting their lives and improve their overall level of functioning. In addition to individual and family therapy, the Therapy Center includes specialized services such as PASAAC (Project Against the Sexual Abuse of Appalachian Children), a Non-Offending Parent group for parents of children who have been sexually abused, a Women's Anger Management group and gender-specific Intensive Outpatient Programs for those struggling with addiction, mental health challenges and trauma. All of the clinically-based services at Child & Family Tennessee's Therapy Center operate from a Strength-Based, Trauma-Informed, Recovery and Resiliency Model and address a variety of problems and needs.

Services that we specialize in:

• Anger management

• Anxiety

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Bipolar disorder

• Depression

• Divorce

• Eating Disorders

• Emotional, sexual or physical abuse

• Family issues

• Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender issues

• Grief

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Marital conflict

• Parenting issues

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Relationship difficulties

• School difficulties

• Stress-related disorders

• Substance abuse

• Trauma

There is a sliding fee scale for services and we accept TennCare and most insurance. For an appointment, call 865-246-1100.

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Parenting Education Seminar

Child & Family Tennessee's Parenting Education Seminar helps parents and children through the difficult time of divorce. Our seminar meets all the requirements set by state law for divorcing parents required to attend parenting classes.

A nominal fee is charged. To register, please call 865-246-1100.

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Parenting Classes

Within the Child & Family Tennessee Therapy Center (Please see "Therapy Center" in the listing to the left.), an array of services and training for parents who are struggling with issues such as divorce, child and adolescent disruptive behaviors or other parenting challenges. Our licensed therapists will work with you and your family to help resolve any issues that may be disrupting your family. These Parenting Classes strive to support family development and enrich family life.

A nominal fee is charged. To register, please call 865-246-1100.

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Boot Camp For New Dads

When it comes to holding or caring for a baby, most new Dads feel they have two left hands and two left feet! Boot Camp for New Dads is a successful program offered by Child & Family Tennessee, designed to build confidence and prepare first-time fathers for the challenges of parenthood. The program is designed to help dads get connected and positively involved with their new baby to help ensure that they remain a strong and constructive force throughout their children's lives.

Boot Camp for New Dads is a three-hour workshop taught by veteran dads and their newborns to rookie dads who are expecting their first baby. There are no women allowed, unless they are less than two feet tall!

Veteran dads will demonstrate and discuss:

• Burping

• Changing diapers

• Swaddling

• "Trouble shooter's guide" to crying babies

• Safety

• Dealing with relatives

• Balancing work and time spent with baby

• Caring for and helping out new moms

A nominal fee is charged. To register, please call 865-524-7483.

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Men's Intensive Outpatient

Child & Family Tennessee offers an intensive outpatient rehabilitation program for men through our Therapy Center. (Please see "Therapy Center" in the listing to the left.)

Child & Family Tennessee is dedicated to aiding the recovery of families and individuals who experience probems from co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders. Child & Family Tennessee offers integrated substance abuse and mental health treatment services, utilizing the most strongly supported evidence-based practices for dual diagnosis treatment..

Some of the services offered through this program:

• Substance abuse treatment

• Mental health services

• Parenting education

• Family support

• Medical support

• Aftercare services

• Job training

• Case management

There is a sliding fee scale for services and we accept TennCare and most insurance. For an appointment, call 865-246-1100.

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M.E.N.'s Group

Child & Family Tennessee's Managing Emotions Non-Violently (MEN's) program is a group counseling and instruction program for men with anger management issues, primarily related to domestic violence. The program clientele are court-ordered or voluntary.

Some of the goals of the MEN's program are:

• Identify methods to reduce and appropriately manage anger

• Identify reasons for angry, violent and abusive behavior

• Accept responsibility for abusive actions

• Develop appropriate communication with others

• Develop an understanding of the cycle of violence

• Develop coping strategies

• Identify types of abusive behavior

• Improve self-image

• Improve self-awareness and self-communication abilities

• Ensure safety of victims of domestic violence and abuse

There is a sliding fee scale for services and we accept TennCare and most insurance. For an appointment, call 865-246-1100.

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