NIA—Teen and Young Adult Work Base Learning Program

NIA Program Mission

The mission of The NorthShore Community Alliance’s NIA Program is to successfully provide job search training, employment opportunities, and employee mentoring services for teens and young adults in care.

The Allegheny County Department of Human Services (ACDHS) has provided their support to economically disadvantaged individuals relative to youth and young adults in foster care.  Nationally, Allegheny County has been recognized for their efforts to remain on the cutting edge of service provider partnership and gaps-in-services closure.  The ACDHS has invested in solution-focused concepts to children in care.

The NorthShore Community Alliance (NCA) has partnered with the ACDHS’s Independent Living and Bridge Programs, various group homes, and community leaders/employers to assist in providing employment opportunities for youth in care.  Together, we will present positive change for the lives of those teens and young adults.

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In conjunction with the Pennsylvania Child Health Insurance Program (PA CHIP), NCA is actively spreading the word about PA CHIP. All children in PA qualify for no cost or low cost health insurance.  If you are your children have no health insurance stop in and pick up an application for PA CHIP or call us and we’ll mail you one.

Family Life Education:

OBJECTIVES

• Improve parent/child communication
• Establish family rules and consequences
• Development of positive and appropriate parenting skills focusing on clear instructions, attention and praise.
• Establish family roles and negotiation of important family dynamics 

The program will follow the core learning outline of: modeling effective parenting, communication, confrontation, and family roles.  Beyond that the program will individuate their course of studies around the particular needs and interest of the parents in the class to ensure that the needs of the group are consistently met. The Program will run throughout the year with each session consisting of 10 weeks.

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Caring counseling to strengthen families, because being a parent is more challenging than ever before

The In-Home Service Program is an intensive family-based program designed to preserve and strengthen those families who are at risk of having one or more children removed from their homes due to issues of neglect, abuse, housing, and any other issue that could create a dangerous environment for a child.  It is also designed to promote the reunification of those children who have already been removed from their families.

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