What
we offer the children in the agency:
Education
New Millennium provides quality education services to children
in our care. A variety of state and county education resources
will be utilized. In addition to academics, we will focus
on raising self-esteem, teaching values and job skills for
our teenage children. State grant funding programs allow
our children the opportunity to receive in-home tutoring
twice weekly throughout the school year. Sacramento
State University has created a Guardian Scholars Program
which is a comprehensive program of financial aid, life
coaching, mentoring, housing and personalized attention,
geared toward assisting foster youth in a brighter future
and higher education. We are pleased to be able to
collaborate with Sacramento State University in providing an
opportunity for our foster youth to obtain higher education.
Counseling
Our therapeutic treatment team will provide weekly counseling
for each child, and may include family members. Issues such
as abandonment, neglect, gang affiliation, substance abuse,
sexual abuse will be the focus based on the needs of the
child.
Family Reunification
New Millennium works closely with the child's county
placement worker. When a court orders reunification of the
child with his or her natural parents, New Millennium works
closely with the Dept. of Social Services and Agency Social
Workers to make the reunification process a smooth
transition.
Recreation
New Millennium recognizes the value of recreational activities
as a vital part of the health and well being of every child.
Foster parents are encouraged to provide quality recreational
outings for the children in their care. New Millennium occasionally
will plan group recreational activities such as amusement
parks, camping trips etc., for children who are interested
in participating. New Millennium has just formed a
partnership with Arco Arenas " Maloof Entertainment"
community service outreach program, that will provide
entertainment opportunities for our children, such as
tickets to the Monarchs and Kings games, Ice Shows and any
other appropriate recreational events for our children.
Emancipation
There are many children that age out of the foster care
system. At the age of 18 years of age a child who is
still in foster care will be emancipated and given their
independence through the court system. That child is
able to contact his/her biological family and may choose to
return to the lifestyle and surroundings that they were
removed from. These young adults still need the love
and support of the family they were placed with. New Millennium
encourages each foster family caring for a child approaching
the age of emancipation to remain in contact with that child
throughout their adulthood. Not only do we ask
this of our foster families, we've developed a tracking
system that allows us to remain in contact with the child
after the emancipation process has taken place as well.
This tracking system is called the Emancipation Tracker and
is used to record updated contact information whenever we
have contact with an Emancipated Child. This system also
allows us to track the types of services and support
being requested.
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