Family Support Programs and Services 

Parents Supporting Parents

Parents Supporting Parents is an evidence-based model aimed at empowering parents with lived child welfare experience as mentors to parents currently within the child welfare system. This program hires peer supports who have prior lived-experience within the child welfare system, called parent partners. These parent partners connect with parents who are currently experiencing the CPS system and have had their children formally removed from their care and placed into out-of-home care. The parent partner meets with the family at least weekly to provide support, connect to services, and assist them during their journey.  Referrals for this program come from the CPS case manager.   

• Rock County Parents Supporting Parents Brochure
• Rock County Parents Supporting Parents Brochure - Spanish 

Family Team Meetings

Family Team Meetings is a service we provide to families within the child welfare system that follows a wraparound approach to teaming cases. Families will have a family team meeting facilitator assigned to their case that will help them identify both informal and formal supports to include in a weekly meeting to help identify the family’s goals and work towards meeting those goals. This structure promotes family voice, access, and ownership to their case as well as increased collaboration among service providers. Referrals for this service are received from the CPS case manager.   

• Rock County Family Team Meetings Brochure
• Rock County Family Team Meetings Brochure - Spanish

Family Recovery Court

Rock County Family Recovery Court (FRC) is one of three specialized treatment courts in Rock County. FRC is designed for families struggling with substance use disorders and are involved in the Rock County child welfare system. This specialized treatment court program works in collaboration with court partners, community partners, and Rock County Human Services programs, including behavioral health and child welfare, to work towards a common goal of supporting parents in recovery and building a strong, safe, and healthy family. FRC participants work through four (4) milestones that works in conjunction with a family's child in need of protection and services (CHIPS) court order. There is an optional fifth (5th) milestone that allows participants who have successfully completed the program and closed their child welfare case to be peer supports for the FRC participants. The program offers intensive case management, treatment services including intensive outpatient, outpatient, individual therapy, medication assisted treatment (MAT), and medication management.  Additionally, the FRC program provides increased accountability through increased communication and contact with the presiding juvenile court judge and drug test monitoring through Averhealth. To be eligible for FRC a family needs to have an Out-of-Home CHIPs or an In-Home CHIPs order through Rock County. Additionally, the family needs to reside in Rock County and cannot be a participant of the any of the other county's treatment courts. For questions or enrollment, contact the Rock County Crisis & Connections Line: 608-757-5025

• FRC Program Brochure
• FRC Program Brochure - Spanish

For additional information and resources around Parents Supporting Parents, Family First, and Family Find, visit the following sites: 

Wisconsin DCF - Parents Supporting Parents
Wisconsin DCF - Family First
Wisconsin DCF - Permanency Consultation