Systematic Training for Effective Parenting works toward the prevention of child abuse and neglect:

• First STEP: emergency shelter for mothers and their abused children, professional counseling and classes in positive parenting methods and skills.
• Second STEP: Shelter for up to twelve months, re-introducing the mother to the workplace, child care and continued counseling for the children and mother.

• Shelter in 24 hour supervised home
• Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP)
• Social skills, self-esteem, boundaries, respect for others
• Healthy child-parent interaction skills
• Understanding and dealing with feelings; anger management
• Vocational imaging (interviewing skills, job training)
• Individual and group counseling
• Extended services, e.g., year round and extra holiday assistance
• Referral of families to needed services and resources
• Second-Step Program