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Child-Parent Psychotherapy
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Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Homeless Children’s Network supports the training of clinicians on evidence-based practices for mental health treatment. In 2024, HCN received dedicated funding to train clinicians and serve children and families with Child-Parent Psychotherapy, an Evidence-Based Practice.
CPP May Help When
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Children have been through scary or painful events such as the loss of a loved person, separation, serious medical procedures, abuse, or violence at home or in the community
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Children show difficult behaviors
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Children have a change in placement or caregivers
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Family members have physical health or mental health difficulties
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Caregivers would like to help with parenting and improving parent-child relationships
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What is CPP?
Therapy for young children, from birth through age 5, as well as their parents/caregivers

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Supports family strengths and relationships ​
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Helps families heal and grow after stressful experiences ​
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Respects family and cultural values​
Our Mission
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Providing services that help young children and families recover and heal after stressful and traumatic events
Service Settings
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Getting to Know the
Child & Family
We spend time meeting alone with parents/ caregivers to understand the family’s
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Needs and challenges
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Strengths and values
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History and experiences ​
If needed, we connect families to resources and services. We make a plan for how CPP will help your family.
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Addressing Families' Needs
We usually meet once a week with the parent/caregiver and child. If old enough, we first help children understand
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Who we are
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Why they are coming
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What we will do together
We often use toys because young children show feelings and thoughts through play We may meet alone as adults We help parents/caregivers and children to
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Understand each other
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Talk and play about difficult experiences
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Respond to difficult feelings and behaviors
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Create a family story that leads to healing
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Getting to Know the
Child & Family
We spend time meeting alone with parents/ caregivers to understand the family’s
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Needs and challenges
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Strengths and values
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History and experiences ​
If needed, we connect families to resources and services. We make a plan for how CPP will help your family.
​“Understanding the history makes me more aware of where I want to be in life and how far I want to go in life and what my impact can do for the next generation, for our Blackness. It’s really powerful if you look at our history and what we stand on and how we have become so much stronger and so much centered and surrounding each other and holding hope and faith is really what I believe in. So, my understanding is still a learning process, but I’m not angry. I’m more aware.”
Amani Intern quote
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