What is
it?
In Home Family Counseling is a family
strengthening program designed to decrease parents’
potential for child abuse and neglect by promoting healthy
family interactions. Master’s level professionals go into
the homes of families weekly to work with parents or
caregivers and their children on issues that are interfering
with healthy family functioning: such issues may include
poor communication skills, ineffective discipline
strategies, and a lack of structured family routines and
rules. In-home counseling involves the entire family and
focuses on strengthening parent and child relationships
through support and education. Counselors do not provide
individual or couples therapy or mental health diagnoses.
Families typically participate in the program for three to
six months but may participate for longer, if needed.
Why participate?
 Raising
a safe and healthy child is one of the most rewarding, yet
challenging, jobs an adult can face. The Family Center
recognizes how difficult child-rearing can be and has
designed its in-home counseling program to help caregivers
effectively address parenting challenges. Families benefit
from receiving professional support and education to help
resolve specific parenting difficulties.
The following questions can help you determine whether
in-home family counseling may be appropriate for you:
- Has a recent crisis
situation left you unsure of how to help your children
cope?
- Do you disagree with other
caregivers in your home about how to parent and discipline
your child?
- Are you unsure of how to manage your
children’s problem behavior(s)?
- Is stress interfering with your relationship with your
child?
- Has your child recently been diagnosed with a mental
health disorder? Do you think your child may have a mental
health disorder?
- Would you like to learn how to tailor your parenting
techniques to your child’s unique development?
- Do you want to learn more effective and healthier
parenting strategies than those used by your parents when
you were a child?
- Are you pregnant with your first child and feeling
unprepared to care for a new baby?
To Whom are Services Offered?
- Services are offered to all Davidson and Rutherford
County families with at least one child in the home,
regardless of socioeconomic status
- Services are also available to young, pregnant women
under the age of 25 in Murfreesboro
 Where are services offered?
- The program is available in
English in Davidson and Rutherford Counties and in
Spanish in Davidson County.
- Families may contact the Center
themselves or may be referred by community agencies
such as medical facilities, schools, mental health
organizations and other social service agencies. It is
strongly recommended that referring agencies have the
family contact The Family Center to initiate services.
How much does it cost?
- In-Home Family Counseling services are free of charge.
- No insurance is needed to be eligible for the
services.
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