Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky

We have a big goal – ending the cycle of child abuse. The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities, and offer a full range of evidenced based prevention and treatment services to make that dream a reality for our region.

It’s no easy task, but it’s critical to the future of children, adults, families and our community. There are 42 million adult survivors of child sexual abuse in the United States. And even more experience physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. Research shows that 1 in 10 children will be sexually abused by the time they turn 18 and that 1 in 5 children will be victims of physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect. Child abuse reports in KY and OH have grown significantly in recent years, and local officials report a worrisome increase in the need, driven in part by the heroin crisis that is so prevalent in our region. More children are taken into care, and reunification is more challenging because of the relapse rate involved with this epidemic. Nearly 25% of our region’s children report two or more adverse childhood experiences. Child Abuse has long-term effects when left untreated, including documented problems in many areas including academic, relationship, career, physical and mental health.

Family Nurturing Center addresses this by providing a full range of prevention, education and treatment services that help children and adults. Our evidence based services produce meaningful change in the lives of children and families, and our community engagement model helps leverage the talents and gifts of the whole community to make a lasting impact.

Over the next 3-5 years, Family Nurturing Center has created goals in the areas of impact, influence, infrastructure and income in order to further our mission of ending the cycle of child abuse.

Organizationally, we’ve identified strategies in four key areas to help us further our mission. Our plan is centered on increasing mission impact by maximizing and diversifying our revenues to invest in programs, people and infrastructure.

Highlights include:

Implement high quality trauma informed programming that promotes the mission and vision of FNC and changes the lives of children, families and communities.
Strategic Priorities:
• Continue and expand continuum of education, prevention and treatment programs designed to end the cycle of child abuse.
• Pilot holistic and expressive therapies through volunteers and special grant funding.
• Infuse trauma informed care practice into services and organizational culture.
• Add therapeutic service options for adults impacted by abuse.

Cultivate a highly engaged, impassioned Board and volunteer force combined with a strategic communication plan to increase issue awareness and agency recognition.
Strategic Priorities:
• Provide opportunities for meaningful engagement, service and impact.
• Recruit and retain passionate board members to advance the mission of FNC.
• Develop comprehensive strategic communications and marketing plan to increase awareness of issues and agency with key stakeholders.

Invest in people, processes and systems for effective, efficient services.
Strategic Priorities:
• Develop or purchase secure data systems for efficient and effective tracking of clients, services and outcomes.
• Be an employer of choice with competitive compensation and benefits, minimal regretted turnover and positive work climate.
• Explore partnerships to leverage strengths, enhance a strong infrastructure and further the mission of the organization.
• Right size structure, position focus and workloads, including identification of new positions.

Diversify revenue and increase funding to ensure financial security, sustainability and growth needed to execute the strategic priorities.
Strategic Priorities:
• Accept third party payments for diversified funding stream.
• Increase # of major gifts ($500 or above)
• Increase and engage new donors of all levels in our work.
• Increase corporate, government and foundation support that aligns with the mission of FNC and creates expanded service opportunities.

• Family Nurturing Center has a long and successful history n providing a range of evidence based services and promising practices to meet the current and emerging needs of children, adults and families impacted by abuse.
• Family Nurturing Center is a trauma-responsive organization that has embedded this model into the organizational culture as well as service delivery. This model is fully integrated it into the work with families, resulting in greater client engagement and higher participation rate. The agency is recognized as a leader in the region and has demonstrated capacity through this trauma informed lens to engage children and adults in services.
• Staff are highly trained and effective in working with high risk populations. Agency staff are trained in trauma-informed care, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Combined Parent Child Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CPC-CBT), Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE), Traumatic Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCT-A) Motivational Interviewing, Nurturing Parenting and Engaging Fathers. This robust training program, along with intensive clinical supervision and live coaching, allows our staff to develop an expertise that is not found with organizations that provide a generalist approach.
• We employ evidence based intervention models, that have been developed and extensively tested for their effectiveness with individuals impacted by child abuse. We also recognize that child abuse impacts the whole person, and see the relationship between mind, body and spirit. Therefore, we’ve added expressive and non traditional therapies and wellness activities to augment traditional services, providing a holistic approach to services. We believe in providing a continuum of services and multiple therapy options in order to best meet the individual needs of the children, adults and families that we serve.
• Family based services are provided whenever possible, which lead to the greatest opportunity for change and allow for generational impact.
• Locations in both KY and OH make us accessible to clients, and our ability to deliver services on site at local schools, organizations and community groups takes away any potential stigmas associated with accessing services, and allows people to participate in settings that are already comfortable and convenient.
• Family Nurturing Center’s partnerships and diverse funding sources mean that services are free to our clients. There are no copays or fees to participate, removing this barrier for individuals.
• Family Nurturing Center meets or exceeds all 20 standards of the Better Business Bureau’s Charity Accountability Program and is an accredited charity seal holder.

We are proud to report on a number of agency accomplishments, most notably, delivering effective programming and outreach services to more than 30,000 people in FY19. Other important achievements over the past two years include:

• Expanding individual counseling services and adding a fourth full time therapist to serve children and adults.

• Adding holistic supports and wellness services to expand our continuum of services and offer non traditional services to complement evidence based models.

• Adding comprehensive parenting assessment and intervention services to our menu of services in Cincinnati.

• Providing Combined Parent Child Cognitive Behavior Therapy in KY and OH offices. Family Nurturing Center is the only agency in the region offering this evidence based model.

• Being selected to provide training to community partners and other stakeholders in effective visitation models.

• Relocating both our OH (2018) and KY (2019) offices to provide expanded services in a client-centered environment.

• Five staff completed a nine month certification in trauma responsive care, increasing their ability to effectively serve individuals who have experienced complex trauma.

• Completed a learning collaborative with the National Council on Behavioral Health and Rapid Cycle Improvement Collaborative to improve our organizational impact and demonstrate continuous quality improvement.