Family Development
The NOC’s Family Development Program is CEOGC’s dominate service for linking families to its own and other community resources. Any resident of Cuyahoga County (meeting the income eligibility standards) can voluntarily agree to participate in this program. Working with an NOC family development specialist and case manager, residents can improve their economic status by taking advantage of parenting classes, anger management classes, housing assistance, training classes, job readiness classes, job placement services, one-on-one counseling and referrals to other resources.
Any resident of Cuyahoga County meeting the government imposed income eligibility standards can voluntarily agree to participate in this program. CEOGC encourages all of its families with children enrolled in Head Start, all of the families seeking assistance from the Emergency Home Energy Assistance Program and Housing Assistance Program, all students enrolled in its training classes, and all persons seeking job readiness or job placement services to take advantage of the relationships and supports available through enrollment in its Family Development Program.
NOC staff will help individuals enrolled in the Family Development Program to identify resources that already exist in their community for their educational, social, and emotional development and teach them to skillfully use them to achieve their goals. Each center has case management and mental health counseling as core components of their services:
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