Parent & Family Supports
This program offers financial assistance and a database of licensed providers to help families access quality child care.
What is Child Care Subsidy, Resource & Referral program?
This program, offered free to families, to help improve communication and problem-solving skills.
What is free Family Counseling program?
This evidence-based home visiting program promotes early childhood education and school readiness.
What is PAT (Parents as Teachers) program?
This program supports child care providers in achieving higher star ratings through effective coaching.
What is QRIS (Quality Rating & Improvement System) program?
This program is a youth-run business established to provide hands-on working opportunities for at-promise youth.
What is Cabinet Ink?
A program that operates like a food bank, providing food, hygiene items, and basic needs support in Washoe.
What is CC Market (Children's Cabinet Market)?
An initiative teaching adults, mentors and teachers how to assist adolescents experiencing mental health crises.
What is the YMHFA (Youth Mental Health Fist Aid) program?
Youth struggling in school or the juvenile justice system can receive after-school support through this program.
What is Continued Success program?
A temporary substitute care service for licensed child care centers and homes.
What is ECSN (Early Childhood Support Network) program?
Designed to help teens returning from detention integrate back into school and community life.
What is Positive Pathways to Re-Entry?
Families referred by DCFS receive case management and safety management services through this program.
What is Safe@Home program?
This program focuses on suicide prevention screenings in Washoe County middle schools.
What is SOS (Signs of Suicide) program?
A Washoe County academy for at-risk students to recover credits and graduate high school.
What is Redfield Academy?
A set of tools and resources to help families turn everyday moments into brain-building opportunities.
What is Vroom?
This program offers 24/7 access to immediate help and supportive resources for youth who feel they are in a dangerous or threatening situation.
What is SafePlace?
This program provides help to parents to understand the importance of play and literacy, as well as guidance techniques.
What is Parenting Classes program?
This work is coordinating all the partners addressing youth mental health across Washoe County.
What is Youth Mental Health Collective Impact?
A statewide initiative promoting social-emotional development in young children.
What is the Nevada Pyramid Model Partnership?
This Department/program offers child care providers information needed to operate a business and provide the highest quality care available to the families they serve.
What is the CCSC (NV Strong Start Child Care Services Center)?
This program is a national program that provides funding for youth who qualify to attend accredited college, university, vocational or technical school.
What is ETV (Educational Training Voucher) program?
This program offers empowerment to parents and families of young children, giving them key roles in shaping the early childhood system.
What is NV Early Childhood Family Leadership Council?
A Washoe program addressing teen mental health with a focus on suicide prevention and community support.
What is Connect Washoe County?
This workforce development program helps youth earn their diploma and train for in-demand jobs.
What is Washoe Youth Build?
This program acts as a liaison between the community and health and social service providers to better support Nevada families.
What is CHW (Early Childhood Community Health Workers) program?
This program support involves meeting with a case manager to assess the family and youth’s unmet needs and create family-centered goals.
What is Wrap-Around Case Management?