The Co-Parenting Program is an 8-week program designed to help each parent adapt to their current situation while keeping their child’s well-being top-of-mind. The instruction supports and guides the challenges each parent faces by strengthening parental interactions while examining the psychological effects on both the child and the parents. The individualized program modules are adaptable to all backgrounds, cultures, and parent-child situations. Confidentiality of shared information is paramount in this program.

Program Highlights:

• 1-2 hour weekly in-home sessions for 8 weeks: flexibility of administrative session schedule
• Mediation services conducted in a neutral setting with all parental influences, followed by the creation of an “Outcome Contract” approved by all concerned
• Multi-lingual staff interaction

This Program is Designed for:
Divorced, Separated, or Unmarried Partners; Teenage Parents; Blended Families; Parents who wish to strengthen basic parenting skills

This program provides effective consultations and treatment services for individuals and families facing issues associated with alcohol and drug abuse. Individualized services include screening and evaluation assessment, individual and group counseling, and workshops designed to address specific critical issues.

Program Highlights:

• Assessment of individuals with a substance abuse problem or in a crisis situation: family intervention services.
• Development of a treatment plan, with goals and incremental steps directed at successful outcomes
• Individual/family/group counseling
• Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor Staff

This Program is Designed for:

• • Children/Adolescents/Youth exhibiting signs of substance abuse
  • Adults who have a history of substance abuse
  • Families affected by drug/alcohol/substance abuse

This 12 week program is designed to help individuals develop personal awareness surrounding their actions of rage, aggression, or hostility, which can produce devastating consequences in their personal and professional lives. RIS’ skilled professional staff works with individuals and their families to identify the impetus for anger and hostile feelings and situations before they are made public. Issues addressed include “Effectively Controlling Feelings of Rage,” “Anger Expressed! What are the Consequences?” and “Anger Management Techniques”
Program Highlights:

• • • Objective counselling in a group setting or in individual 1-hour sessions
    • Confidential, comfortable venues that encourage sharing experiences and issues
    • Highly credentialed, sympathetic staff, focused on encouraging honest exchanges

This Program is Designed for:

• • • Individuals in need of anger management control
    • Individuals who struggle with moderate to severe levels of aggression

DV Brochure
This service includes offender’s assessment and DV offenders group. The assessment consists of a face to face interview(s) with the offender and may include collateral contacts with family members and community providers. This six hour service includes a written report with therapeutic recommendations.
Domestic Violence Offenders Group
This 24-week program is dedicated to de-emphasizing the self-centered goals an offender develops when s/he lashes out at their partner and children for short-term self-gratification and a feeling of “personal power.”
Offenders who want to change their abusive behavior need to accomplish four key initiatives:
(1) They need to be willing to give up ultimate control in their relationships
(2) They need to take total responsibility for their abusive behaviour
(3) They need to cooperate with their partner to resolve disagreements in a mutually respectful manner, and
(4) They need to establish collaborative goals with their partner that reflects collective needs.
The Domestic Violence Offender Group addresses the four initiatives in a collaborative, positive setting that encourages sharing experiences that produce violent reactions in a family environment. RIS provides multi-lingual, male and female facilitators in 90-minute interactive, weekly sessions over 24 weeks.
Program Highlights:

• • • Two-phase program: First Stage= 8 sessions: Second Stage = 16 Sessions
    • First Stage: Check In; “Telling My Story”; Education; Check Out
    • Second Stage: Check In; Individual Turns (Relationship History, Goal Setting); Education; Check Out
    • Male/Female/ Multi-lingual Facilitators

This Program is Designed for:
Individuals who recognize the consequences of their behavior as offenders and want to change

This program is designed to promote self-understanding and awareness of domestic violence in their lives. Through psycho-education, assessments and self-development techniques, the participants will develop skills in successfully moving on from the trauma of domestic violence in their lives. Even though there are incidents where women have used violence in their intimate relationship; most intimate partner violence takes place where men are the perpetrators and women are the victims. Most women appear to use violence as a way to defend themselves or their children or to get back at their partners for past and ongoing violence. Women typically do not control, intimidate or cause fear in their partner when they use violence.  Therefore, this program is structured based on the premise that women are the victims of domestic violence and therefore can benefit from a program that will help them gain insight on the impact of violence and to overcome the trauma of abuse through self-empowerment.

Program Highlights:

• Help participants to explore their impact of abuse
• Examine past and current relationships; learn ways to develop healthy relationships
• Develop self-empowerment skills to overcome trauma
• Understand the effects of DV on children
• Use assessment tools and journalist activities
• Learn community resources in establishing a safe home environment

This Program is Designed for: 

• Women who have been victims of domestic violence

This service is designed to meet fathers where they are in establishing a trusting and working relationship with the Department. The goal is to support fathers in becoming involved during DCF intervention and/or while their children are in DCF care. This fatherhood engagement service will equip fathers in establishing healthy approaches in working with DCF on behalf of their children. We want fathers to know that they are critical to the success of their children and to support them in navigating potential barriers keeping them engaged in their children lives. Thus leading to better outcomes on behalf of children.

Radiance Innovative Services endeavors to support the Hartford and Manchester offices of DCF to engage fathers that have current involvement with the Department and/or have children in DCF care. On cases in which the DCF worker is unable to contact or engage fathers, the assigned Fatherhood Engagement Specialist will support the DCF worker in engaging fathers in the case planning process. The assigned Fatherhood Engagement Specialist will assist the Department with locating fathers, calling fathers, visiting fathers in their homes or community, providing fathers with psycho-education regarding the benefits of fatherhood involvement, coordinating initial face to face meetings between DCF staff and fathers, encouraging fathers active participation in the Considered Removal/Permanency Teaming process, supporting fathers during ACR attendance and court hearings, increasing father’s involvement with their children’s medical, educational and behavioral health planning, assisting with referring fathers for culturally competent, community based fatherhood specific support services and working to bridge and establish effective relationships between DCF staff and fathers.

Program Highlights:

• Increase fatherhood involvement, leading to long-term positive outcomes for children
• Establishing healthy relationships between fathers and their children
• Establishing effective relationships between DCF staff and fathers

This Program is Designed for: 

• Fathers who have had difficulty engaging in the case planning process

This 12 week program is based on the reality that fathers share equal influence with mothers in the healthy development of a child’s self-esteem, educational achievement, and lifelong social interaction. Five hours per week is dedicated to this intense initiative, with 3 hours of case management and 2 hours of parental education. This interactive program focuses on non-custodial fathers in hard-to-reach societal groups, including low income, inter-racial, and economically disadvantaged families.
Program Highlights:

• • • Advocating for a child’s education
    • Drugs, violence and gang influences
    • Developing self-control; Nurturing positive relationships & progressive child development techniques; Developing Positive family “routines”; and Establishing Regular Communication
    • Flexible hours including evening and weekends
    • Monthly Group Activity Assignments
    • Multi-lingual, culturally competent staff administration
    • Interactive 12 week program which consists of 5 hours per week; 2 hours of Parent Education, 2 hours of case management

This Program is Designed for:
Divorced fathers, non-custodial fathers, teen-aged fathers, unmarried fathers.

This 12 week program provides services designed to prepare youth to become productive adults in a changing society. Services offered are individually customized, culturally sensitive, and developmentally appropriate. Case managers build a trusting, mutually productive relationship between youth and caretaker, providing support and the required resources the youth needs to stabilize his/her life while focusing on long-term goal achievement.
Program Highlights:

• • • Family systems approach to identify strengths and challenges of the individual and each family member
    • Identifies and establishes measurable, achievable goals and family support systems
    • Uses outcome-driven system of measuring success
    • Services link family interaction to evaluation, treatment, educational, health, financial, and other necessary services
    • 5 hours weekly in-person client interaction

This Program is Designed for:

• Youth returning from a Juvenile Justice facility
• Youth on probation or parole
• Youth adjudicated withFamily with Service Needs (FWSN)

This program is designed to provide counseling services to clients requiring a high level of supervision. RIS staff works closely with the caretaker and the client to develop a plan aimed at re-introducing the client into society as a productive, responsible individual. This program focuses on preserving placement in society while maintaining a safe, productive environment for the client and the community.
Program Highlights:

• Staff assigned within 24 hours of referral: minimum of 3 hours intervention
• 24 hour access to RIS staff: Sessions offered at convenience of the client (evenings/weekends)
• Highly-credentialed staff: experienced with high-risk population
• Services include one-on-one staff support; establishment of goals; age-appropriate activities

This Program is Designed for:

• High-risk individuals in need of intense support

This mentoring program is designed to address the needs of a child or youth with complex behavioral health challenges: one who has been diagnosed with a moderate to acute functional impairment that interferes with their ability to function in society. RIS provides a therapeutic mentor who works one-on-one with the child/youth to establish a beneficial tutorial relationship based on mutual trust that leads the child/youth to exhibit positive, socially accepted behavior.
Program Highlights:

• Structured activities consistent with treatment plan goals
• Highly credentialed, experienced RIS mentors
• Minimum of 4 hours of service administered in accordance with the client’s schedule (Evenings/Weekends)

This Program is Designed for:

• Children/Youth with complex behavioral health challenges
• Children/Youth at risk of entering a residential care treatment facility
• Children/Youth with moderate to acute functional impairment that interferes with societal interaction

Supportive Supervised Visitation is designed to foster a healthy relationship between the parent and child by building on the parent’s strengths and guiding improved parenting. The visit coach primary responsibility is to support families to meet the unique needs of the children as well as manage conflict between adult and children needs. The coach is there to help families learn how the child’s behavior is shaped by the adult’s words, actions, and attitudes.  They use teaching moments of the visit to do demonstrations, which build on parent’s strengths and create new approaches. The coach is actively involved during the visit fostering an environment of empowerment, empathy, responsiveness and active parenting.

 Program Highlights:

• Conduct Intake; formulate mutually agreed upon goals
• Pre and Post –visit coaching meetings
• Concurrently engage in parent education
• Teaches parent how to tune into their child and create their own unique style of responding and parenting.
• Coaches build on parent’s strengths and guide improved parenting
• Allows parent to understand their child’s behavior and how to effectively address it
• Teaches parent how to be comfortable with engaging their child during visits instead of observing
• Support parent to use new parenting skills repeatedly to observe and cater to child’s responses

This Program is designed for:

• Children and parents separated for more than a year due to inadequate parenting
• Inexperienced or young parents
• Children separated from their parents multiple times
• Parents who do not have the skills to care for their children
• Teen mothers
• Parents who do not understand the development physically, emotionally and mentally of their child
• Parents who may need to overcome DV, trauma, mental disabilities
• Parents that struggle with engaging their child