The Family Service of Piedmont is an agency devoted to help citizens in the community. This can easily be seen with both their vision as well as their mission statement. Their vision is to “building safe and healthy families” (Family Service). And their mission statement is, “Family Service of the Piedmont empowers individuals and families to restore hope, achieve stability and thrive through quality support services, advocacy and education” (Family Service). Family services make sure that they can continue to help people by helping everyone regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or anything. They provide affordable services to everyone.
Conveniently located, a few feet from the Greensboro Transit Authority and other agencies that …show more content…
For the purpose of directing the clients, there is a sign when you walk in that states, welcome to the Family Service, please see the receptionist. And a red rope in case there is a line at the receptionist desk when one walks in. The lobby smelled of cleaning products indicting the place was kept sanitary. No music played in the waiting room. The chairs had a dark blue floral printed on it. The chairs were a bit hard to sit in. In the waiting room there was only one Mexican or Hispanic woman in the waiting room. She looked as she had been waiting for some time because of how she was sitting in the chair. As we went around on the first floor, there was different brochures and flyers for different services. Some offer for example, family and friends support group for mental illness, sexual assault, healthy start programs, identity thief, and much more range of services to assist people. There were different signs on the wall varying from cultural competence to teen dating violence. There were also signs that were in different languages. When you walk up to the receptionist desk there is a sign with different languages on it to say what language the individual speaks.
Family Services provide services like child abuse, domestic violence, family support services, mental health, and sexual assault. For example, with the Healthy Start program pregnant females and new parents can receive in home services. This is in hope that they can learn how to, “nurture their children’s development by helping to create a positive, safe living environment for their families” (Family Service). During this time they learn information on child nutrition, parenting information, developmental expectations for infants, selection of childcare providers, and referrals to other community
Conveniently located, a few feet from the Greensboro Transit Authority and other agencies that …show more content…
For the purpose of directing the clients, there is a sign when you walk in that states, welcome to the Family Service, please see the receptionist. And a red rope in case there is a line at the receptionist desk when one walks in. The lobby smelled of cleaning products indicting the place was kept sanitary. No music played in the waiting room. The chairs had a dark blue floral printed on it. The chairs were a bit hard to sit in. In the waiting room there was only one Mexican or Hispanic woman in the waiting room. She looked as she had been waiting for some time because of how she was sitting in the chair. As we went around on the first floor, there was different brochures and flyers for different services. Some offer for example, family and friends support group for mental illness, sexual assault, healthy start programs, identity thief, and much more range of services to assist people. There were different signs on the wall varying from cultural competence to teen dating violence. There were also signs that were in different languages. When you walk up to the receptionist desk there is a sign with different languages on it to say what language the individual speaks.
Family Services provide services like child abuse, domestic violence, family support services, mental health, and sexual assault. For example, with the Healthy Start program pregnant females and new parents can receive in home services. This is in hope that they can learn how to, “nurture their children’s development by helping to create a positive, safe living environment for their families” (Family Service). During this time they learn information on child nutrition, parenting information, developmental expectations for infants, selection of childcare providers, and referrals to other community