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Blue Jean Days - April 2012
April is National Child Abuse Prevention month and Mt. Hope Family Center is asking our community to help to raise funds during our Blue Jean Days events. These funds will allow us to continue our crusade to strengthen families and help fragile children who suffer from trauma, including abuse and neglect.
We ask you to consider joining us in any of the following ways: 1.) Become a corporate sponsor and receive community recognition and Blue Jean Days ribbons for your employees. 2.) Become a corporate “angel” and allow your staff the opportunity to contribute $5 or $10 for a Blue Jean Days ribbon and the opportunity to wear jeans on a designated day at your company. 3.) Attend one of our fun special events.
For more information about how to donate, please contact sarah.g.smith@rochester.edu at Mt. Hope Family Center.
(Click on the Blue Jean Days logo for info about our special events)
Blue Jean Day Corporate Sponsors 2012
Clark Moving & Storage, Inc./An Agent for Mayflower Transit Co.
Gillespie Associates
HCR Home Care
Kohl's Department Store
Martin & Wiener, LLP
Pullano & Company
Railcomm, Inc.
Mt. Hope Family Center's latest newsletter (click here to read).
About Mt. Hope Family Center
In 1979, Mt. Hope Family Center began as a therapeutic preschool program for children affected by violence in their home or community. We’ve become the only agency in Rochester employing two innovative concepts to help build strong families.
First, Mt. Hope Family Center combines scientific research, clinical services and hands-on mentoring and training in one facility. By working closely together, we’re developing and providing more effective therapies while improving research in human development, maternal depression, child neglect and abuse.
Secondly, although our work is rooted in psychology, we want to discover how other scientific disciplines might improve our understanding of human development. Integrating elements of social work, medicine and, most recently, engineering is creating scientific collaborations that keep us on the leading edge of our field.
Sheree L.Toth Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Mt. Hope Family Center. Dr. Toth is also a tenured associate professor of psychology at the University of Rochester.
Research
Research at the Mt. Hope Family Center focuses on the maltreatment of children and on child and adult psychopathology, including their prevention and treatment. Current areas of research include an assessment of the efficacy of The Center's varied treatment programs and an assessment of sequelae of maltreatment for children. Additionally, research is being conducted on the developmental processes of children raised by depressive and manic-depressive parents.
Intervention
The intervention component focuses on the assessment and treatment of families experiencing severe familial dysfunction and of children at risk of foster care placement and/or emotional difficulties. A number of treatment programs are available to The Center's clients, who are usually referred by the Preventive Unit of the Monroe County Department of Human Services. All of the intervention programs are based on manualized treatment approaches with documented efficacy. The programs available include a child-parent psychotherapy intervention to strengthen familial relationships for children from birth to age five and their caregivers. Children under age six in these programs are assessed across multiple domains of functioning, and the attachment-theory informed intervention is tailored to meet the needs of the children and families. An after school program is provided for at-risk school-aged children that is designed to build the children's self-esteem and to improve their peer relationships utilizing the PATHS (Promotion Alternative Thinking Strategies) curriculum. A summer camp for school-aged children is offered annually. Child therapy, IPT (Interpersonal Psychotherapy) intervention for depressed mothers and their children, foster family treatment, and parenting classes utilizing The Incredible Years curriculum are also offered.
Training
Graduate students from the Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology participate in all of The Center's clinical service programs. Students may also undertake a variety of independent study projects.
News
Raising on the Roof fundraiser January 2012
Paul Valenti, a teacher at Webster Schroeder High School and founder of Push Yourself, was on the roof again for Mt. Hope Family Center from January 25-27. See some of the news coverage we received on our successful event.
http://rochester.ynn.com/content/top_stories/571368/high-school-teacher-camps-out-on-roof-of-school/
http://webster-penfield.whec.com/news/community-service/61954-raising-roof-child-abuse-prevention
On December 8, 2011 our community came together to ROC the Day and raised over $1,600 for Mt. Hope Family Center.
Mt. Hope's transformation of trauma (link)
City Newspaper Article published January 19, 2011
Margaret Possee helps change the culture of fundraising
Go to: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011101090329
