Emergency Assistance

The Emergency Assistance services at POWER are meant to provide to support to families in emergency situations.  As a Barrier Busters agency, POWER seeks to reduce the red tape so often associated with obtaining help in times of crisis.  Referral help, food distribution, and access to potential financial support are available to persons in need.

Contact Renette Hicks for more information or email us at emergassist@powerclf.org.

Parent Education Program

Would you like to:

• Meet other parents in the area?
• Learn more about development of your children?
• Share experiences and support other parents?
• Participate in activities as a family?
• Discover answers to your questions about your children?

Parents’ Night Out (PNO) is a free weekly support and learning group for parents funded by the Children’s Trust Fund; children’s programming, transportation and food is provided.  Our programming uses the nationally recognized evidence-based Nurturing Parenting© model, and offered in a nurturing environment by trained facilitators.

Contact Teneka Epps at (734) 929-6509 or email us at parented@powerclf.org.

Foster Parent / Volunteer Recruitment

Can you love a child and help them to grow? Are you willing to open your home to a child in need?

Foster parenting may be for you!  Contact our offices to find out more about being a foster parent for children from Washtenaw County.

Have some time to volunteer and want to help families?

The Foster Parent/Volunteer Recruitment program is a program funded by the Department of Human Services, and designed to identify potential families who could provide foster or respite care to children unable to return home.  There is a specific need for those whoa re willing to take sibling groups and older children.  Those who want to help but are not able to make a foster  care commitment may be able to provide support in other ways, by volunteering their time to support a foster family or foster child.

Contact Renette Hicks @ (734) 929-6509 or email us at fosterparent@powerclf.org.

Restoration Counseling Services

Restoration Counseling Program offers Christian faith-based counseling to persons who are affected by the challenges of daily living. We offer a Christ-centered, biblically-based perspective in helping to address problems in such areas as:

• family functioning
• relationships
• marriage
• past abuse
• self image

Services are not limited solely to those of the Christian faith. Persons from many different cultural, spiritual, and socioeconomic backgrounds have taken advantage of our services, and referred others for help, as well.  Restoration Counseling offers on site and outreach individual and family counseling for persons in distress. Department of Human Services and self-referrals are accepted.  A sliding fee scale is available.

Contact Dr. Carol Burrell-Jackson for referrals and information or email us at counseling@powerclf.org.

Wrap Around

 POWER inc has partnered with Eastern Michigan University in the provision of wrap around service coordination to pregnant and parenting teens and youth who are at risk of homelessness, have had contact with the court system, or who face mental health challenges. Visit www.emuwraparound.org for a more detailed discussion of the program.

Contact: Catherine Kabira at (734) 929-6509 for referrals or email us at wraparound@powerclf.org.

Family Advocacy Program

Our In-Home Family Advocacy program is funded by the Department of Human Services, which is targeted at providing child protection support and promoting resilience in at-risk families. Therapeutic and case management services are provided by trained mental health professionals and service consumers. Referrals may only be accepted through the Department of Human Services.

Contact Dr. Carol Burrell-Jackson for information at familyad@powerclf.org.