Family Services

Working beyond the classroom, ecological intervention focusing on partnering with parents, family participation, and involvement of significant others seeks to support the child in the home, neighborhood, community, school, and job setting. Efforts to effect change within the child’s life outside of school are made to support lasting behavior change that provide continued hope and optimism for the future.

Each child is assigned a case manager who becomes the primary liaison between the center and the family. Their primary responsibility is to build supports for the child in the child’s life outside the center so that child will one day be able to effectively transition back to the public school setting, or into other services should that be the case.

Each center has a Family Service Aide. These caring adults are parents of past or present PEP clients, and know firsthand what our families are experiencing. Because of their experiences, they can provide direct peer support to parents and can effectively facilitate parent groups.

PEP employs a Juvenile Court Liaison to support a child and family should they need help navigating the court system so that the child can be maintained in the least restrictive environment possible.