Family Success Coach Program
Family Success Coach Services
Family Success Coach Services is a post-permanency support program that offers guidance, education, and enhanced case-management services for families who have experienced foster or kinship care. The Family Success Coach will work with the family to problem-solve, improve relationships, advocate for resources, build resiliency, and keep families together.
Children who have experienced foster or kinship care due to abuse or neglect continue to have risks that negatively impact their well-being after they exit care. As a result, Success Coaches work with these children and families to provide them with tools proven to increase their protective factors and mitigate their risk factors.
What can the Success Coach assist with?
• Social/emotional support
• Behavioral/mental health concerns
• Educational support/advocacy
• Parenting skills/discipline
• Family communication
• Financial planning
• Connections to benefits/resources
• Employability/career resources
Eligibility:
Services are offered to families who have a child for a permanent placement from the foster care system. This includes reunified, kinship, and adoptive families.
Reunified Families or Kinship Placement
- Child must have exited foster care before the age of 16 and be under the age of 18 at the time of the Family Success service engagement.
- Families with older children may still receive services if there is another child(ren) living in the home who exited foster care and is under the age of 16.
- Child must have been in the custody of the SC Department of Social Services (SC DSS).
- Child must currently reside in either Berkeley, Charleston, or Dorchester County.
- Family has a closed case with SC DSS or is in the process of having their case closed.
Adoptive Families:
Finalized adoption has occurred through foster care, stepparent, internationally, or privately.
Child must be under the age of 18 at the time of the Family Success Service agreement.
Adoptive Families
- Finalized adoption has occurred through foster care, stepparent, internationally, or privately.
- Child must be under the age of 18 at the time of the Family Success Service Agreement.
