Wellroot Family Services

Residential: our independent living program (ilp) and transitional living program (tlp) provided housing and supported 39 young adults during a time of transition from foster care to adulthood, ensuring that they are set up for financial, personal, and spiritual success. of the youth we served in tlp, 73% were on track to achieve their high school diploma in the academic year, 57% of those youth were employed within 45 days of admission to the program and 100% of our ilp youth sustained employment during the program and had positive discharges. Tlp and ilp programs maintained a+ averages in areas of safety, permanency and well-being. Wellroot's Family housing program supported families facing temporary homelessness by providing housing, stability and a safety net of intervention Services designed to enhance skills and self-sufficiency. 75% of our families served in Family housing had positive exits with: earning a livable wage, acquired savings, and moved into permanent housing upon discharge. We continued to support clients with increased tangible resources during covid-19 to meet the unique and critical needs.

Family preservation programs: Wellroot added three evidence-based programs that help children and families build resiliency and connect families in crisis with the resources they need to create a safe and stable Home. We served 37 new mothers through healthy families North Georgia (hfng), a Home visiting program that improves child well-being and prevents abuse and neglect through in-home family-focused support. Through functional Family therapy (fft), we provided in-home family-based therapeutic intervention for youth at risk. We served 44 families total, with 16 families successfully completing the prescribed number of Family sessions with a qualified therapist. And we launched positive parenting program (triple p) which combines training and coaching to help parents address behavioral challenges to ensure a child is raised in an environment that is safe, loving and predictable Home.

Foster care: Wellroot served 169 children in foster care. We made progress on our commitment to recruit and approve more families who will care for siblings or older children by welcoming 28 new foster families, 7 homes prepared to take a 3-sibling group and 10 homes that will foster youth ages 13 years and older. In order to prepare them to manage more challenging placements and care for older children and sibling groups, Wellroot provided 17 support group sessions and 37 training sessions for foster families. We implemented a new parent-to-parent meeting protocol to engage birth parents and foster parents in partnership parenting and maintained an a+ average across all sites from the state in areas of safety, permanency, and well-being. Wellroot continued the implementation of together facing the challenge therapeutic foster care evidence-based model.