FNC of New Jersey - Allison Shorey #77

Mission Statement
Multicultural Community Services, Inc. provides competent, community-based human services and educational programming that promotes and improves the quality of life. 
 

Services
Multicultural Community Services specializes in services to prevent out-of-home placement and promote family reunification.

Family Support Services
Assessment, advocacy, linkage, support services, and Nurturing Parenting® Programs are provided to families to reduce the risk of abuse or neglect and improve the quality of family life.

Referrals must be made by local NJ DYFS offices

Allison Shorey is a LCSW, with 35 years of experience with child welfare programs in New Jersey, and Philadelphia, and is currently the CEO of Multicultural Community Services, Inc.

Ms. Shorey began her career teaching parent education in groups, and individually to high-risk parents, at adult continuing education classes and in local schools. In 1996, Ms. Shorey began training all agency staff in the use of the Nurturing Parenting^® Programs with urban teen mothers and other high-risk families referred by New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency.  In 2001, Ms. Shorey expanded the use of the Nurturing Parenting® Programs to include all at-risk families served by the Multicultural Community Services. The agency currently uses a variety of the Nurturing Parenting® Programs.  In 2007, Ms. Shorey became a Nationally Recognized Nurturing Parenting^® Program Trainer Consultant, and Multicultural Community Services, Inc. became the Family Nurturing Center™ of New Jersey.

The Nurturing Parenting® Programs programs currently in use at MCS include but are not limited to; The Prenatal Program, Parents and their Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers, Parents and their School Age Children, Parents and Adolescents, and Nurturing Skills for Families. Allison Shorey trains all Multicultural Community Services' professionals in the philosophy, constructs, skills and strategies of the program.  Allison Shorey is available for in-person training in Edison, NJ, and travels to train in-person at other agencies upon request. 
 

FNC of New Jersey Brochure
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