Center for Family Excellence
Sustaining families where they live
Center for Family Excellence, Inc.
409 Dinwiddie Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone (412) 232-0322
Our Mission
The Center For Family Excellence (CFE) strives to help families survive and thrive amid adversity. They work to administer, promote and train others to implement programs and policies that enhance the viability of families. Each program is designed to restore, sustain and strengthen family relationships that may be under potential distress. Center staff work directly with families and collaborate with other human service providers to prevent and interrupt cycles of behavior that are destructive to individuals, families and neighborhoods.
Our Purpose
For more than four decades, the Center for Family Excellence (CFE) has been successful in preserving and reuniting families involved with the Office of Children, Youth, and Families Division of the Human Services Department of Allegheny County. CFE works to strengthen and preserve families by promoting the Values for Life which are Love and Respect, Learning Orientation, Interpersonal Skills, Self-Persistence, Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem, and Self-Reliance. We provide Values for Life Child Care services that enhance the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children from birth through five years of age. The Center for Family Excellence, Inc. works collaboratively with many other public and private agencies. All the initiatives of the Center are rigorously evaluated.
The Center for Family Excellence builds Values for Life communities by working with individuals, children, and families to;
(1) Promote healthy child development.
(2) Improve parenting skills.
(3) Provide family support services.
(4) Prevent and reduce child abuse and neglect.
Services
The goal of Right Start is to strengthen families by helping them develop parenting skills that will allow their
children to remain at home. This is an in-home program serving families that have experienced the risk factors
associated with incidences of child abuse or neglect. CFE staff collaborate with the Allegheny County department of Children, Youth, and Families. Our CFE In home workers meet with the families to implement goals that will enhance the functioning of the family system.
This program is open to young men between the ages of 8 - 18. Some areas the program focuses on are developing positive male identities, building leadership skills’, monitoring academic achievement and teaching essential life skills.
This program is open to young ladies between the ages of 8 - 18. The group provides guidance on building leadership skills, boosting confidence, help them grow academically, career planning and life skills.
Training
The Center for Family Excellence has designed, evaluated and implemented more than 30 interventions that help families, and their supporting community agencies and organizations, maneuver through adverse circumstances to places of greater hope and potential transformation. Our training programs equip parents, and human service providers who attempt to help them, to nurture families toward more proactive constructive family dynamics that reduce their susceptibility to influences that are destructive for individuals, families and communities.
