|  Appalachian
Family Innovations (Family
Innovations) is a division of the Institute for Health and Human Services at Appalachian State University. With primary offices
in Morganton, Asheville, and Winston-Salem, Family Innovations has,
since the early 1970s committed itself to the development, implementation,
and refinement of leading edge helping programs for troubled youth
and their families.
Appalachian
Family Innovations
provides specialized direct care programs in foster care, adoptions,
home visitation with parents with newborns, intensive family preservation
services, and sex abuse prevention.
Appalachian
Family Innovations
offers training, consultation, and evaluation support to intensive
family preservation service providers, direct care staff in residential
programs, staff development for teachers, and commissioned training
to organizations with special programming requirements or client
populations. (To see a catalog of training offered by AFI click
here).
The
research, training, and service efforts at Family
Innovations
have led consistently to the same conclusion. If we, society, want
our children to grow up to be caring spouses, nurturing parents,
and productive citizens, we must expose them to adults who behave
that way and encourage those skills and values. To see a video presentation about Appalachian Family Innovations click here.
Appalachian
Family Innovations is a Certified Teaching-Family
Association Sponsor Agency.
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