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Contact:
Jennifer Kinnaman jkinnaman@childrensbureau.org 317-535-3326 |
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What is ACT Services?
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ACT is truly a collaboration among caring people and agencies in Johnson County. We strive to
blend services and funding to foster and provide supportive and flexible environments in which
individuals, families and the community can focus on strengths, and in doing so, build
opportunities for success. While acknowledging the need and benefit of categorical services,
ACT looks to blend existing services with non-categorical services to create family-child
specific support.
ACT Services believes and affirms that...
How do I make a referral?
Anyone can make a referral to ACT. All you have to do is call
317-535-3326 and ask for ACT Services or
Jennifer Kinnaman.
Who should be referred?
There are only three criteria for making a referral:
What's the point?
The point is to do whatever it takes, conventional and/or unconventional, to keep the
children and families together, in school and in the community. The point is that
children/families are the experts and are in control of the process and outcome, and
as a community, we need to offer our support and assistance in ways that are meaningful
to them.
Our Mission Statement
As a community, ACT Services fosters families and children in the development and realization
of inherent strengths to address current and future challenges.
The bottom line is that we do not know what we, as a community, can offer until you ask. We
believe almost anything is possible when there is shared responsibility, commitment and
ownership. However, with all the things listed, the most important thing that ACT offers
the community and children/families is a new and flexible way of looking at things.
It offers the ability for the child/family to be the focus, not funding streams and
eligibility criteria. It offers an opportunity to build constructive, positive relationships
between agencies, families and professionals. It offers the ability to sit down and access
the collective consciousness of the community and focus on the most important resource in
our community - the children, the families and ourselves.
What's the cost?
The cost involves the most valuable commodity of all - your time and a share commitment to
work together. There is no financial charge for ACT. But, ACT is not a free service to
anyone, because it costs both time and effort.
Financial support
Not only do we collaborate in thought, word, and deed, we collaborate financially as
well. The Department of Child Services, Community Corrections, Special Services, the
Children's Bureau, as well as a variety of grants including IVB and Healthy Families
financially contribute and support these efforts. In July 2005, the Children's Bureau,
Inc. became ACT's new parent agency.
- Every person has value and strengths.
- All families have strengths and it's through building on those strengths that change occurs.
- It is important for families to have opportunities to show their strengths.
- Looking for and building on strengths is an advanced skill and needs to be developed.
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CSPC - Child Service Planning Committee
The CSPC is a representation of the community, specifically probation, mental
health, DCS, Comm. Corr., Special Services as well as others, who meet weekly to:
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- that the child/family must live in Johnson County.
- that the child must be under 18 years of age.
- and that at the time of the call, you feel like you have tried many
things, and are looking for support, options and possibilities.
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The mind is a secondary organ and must not be in control, but must submit to the greater organ, that being one's humanity, one's spirituality, one's heart.
-- Joseph Campbell
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What can ACT offer?
ACT Services includes but is not limited to:
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