Utah Association of Family Support Centers

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Utah Association of Family Support Centers

• Preventing family violence and neglect by
  strengthening families, agencies, and communities.

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Statewide Locations

• Cache Rich
• Box Elder
• Morgan Weber
• Davis
• Salt Lake, Summit Tooele
• Daggett, Duchesne Uintah
• Juab, Millard, Wasatch Utah
• Carbon Emery
• Beaver, Iron, Kane Washington

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Family Support Services

• Crisis Nurseries a safe place for children
  during times of crisis.
• Respite Care a planned time out for parents
  who need a break.
• 24-hour Access Line information and referrals to
  parents and families.
• Parenting Education such as home-visiting
  programs, classes, workshops, and seminars on a
  regular basis.

Additional Services may vary depending on the
need of each community. Example Therapy,
in-school child abuse prevention programs, food
bank, community action agencies, homeless
services and more.
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Family Profile

• 45 Single Parents
• 34 Married
• 51 Rent
• 30,000 or Less
• 88 Caucasian
• 8 Hispanic
• 38 Some College
• 33 High School or GED

Parents report that the major reason they use
crisis respite nurseries is for self care
Average age of the children in nursery care is
3-6 years
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Annual Statistics

• 704 parents attended parenting classes
• 13,532 information and referral calls

• 25,858 visits to crisis nurseries
• 85,049 hours of care in crisis nurseries

10,049 people attended community awareness
presentations