Our Services

Comprehensive Community Services (CCS)

Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) is a voluntary strength-based and evidence-based program for eligible children of Milwaukee County. CCS is designed to facilitate growth and improvement in attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills and behavior. Our Youth CCS service offerings include the following: Individual Skills Development and Enhancement, Individual/Family Psychoeducation, and Wellness Management/Recovery.

Individual Skill Development and Enhancement: H2017S

Individual skill development and enhancement is a service category that offers a wide range of supports. Services that fall under this category include improving your ability to advocate for your needs, communicate better with others, problem solving, decision-making, managing your emotions, resolving conflict, developing natural support systems, and addressing any other social needs you may have.

Individual/Family Psychoeducation: H2017PE

Psychoeducation services include providing education and informational resources, emotional and social support, skills training, problems solving, and guidance related to managing your mental health and/or substance abuse condition. Psychoeducation may be provided individually or in a group setting to you, your family and/or natural supports.

Wellness Management/Recovery: H2017W

Wellness management and recovery services are intended to empower you to manage your mental health and/or substance abuse condition, engage you in treatment, help you develop your own goals, and teach you the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed treatment decisions. Services include psychoeducation, learning strategies to modify your behaviors, relapse prevention, development of a recovery action plan, recovery and/or resilience training, development of treatment strategies, social support building, and coping skills development.

 Crisis Stabilization and Mentoring for Children

If your child is experiencing a crisis due to your divorce or separation, then Unity Youth and Family Services can help them recover from it. Our aim is to stabilize the situation for your child and encourage their healthy emotional development.

Whether your child is suffering from stress, extreme social isolation, negative emotions, hallucinations, or suicidal thoughts, Unity Youth and Family Services can ensure immediate stabilization through an experienced and well-trained staff comprising of social workers and law enforcement officers. Our mission to:

• Ensure the safety and comfort of your child at home
• Help them return to their normal life through a personalized crisis intervention and treatment plan
• Maintain their protection within the community using an individualized safety plan

Supervised Visitation

Kenneth’s parents separated and fought for his custody when he was only eight.  While his family had some disturbing issues, Kenneth did not grow up spending just one hour per week with his non-custodial parent in a supervised setting. However, not everyone is that lucky.

When safety of the child is paramount, the best choice for a family is to let them meet the non-custodial parent in a supervised visitation center. By definition, visitation centers are community-based organizations that provide a healthy environment for children to meet with their non-custodial parent under the direct supervision of a trained staff.

While supervised visitation may not be how you want to parent your child, it is better than having to see them grow up in a toxic environment. At Unity Youth and Family Services, we realize this and are committed to ensuring the health and well-being of children and parents during visits and exchanges that happen in our secure community centers, at home, or our centralized location in Milwaukee.

Unity Youth and Family Services foster favorable outcomes for children and their families through supervised visits and other services designed to achieve this mission.

Protecting the child is the main reason a court makes provision for supervised visits. When a parent poses a threat to their child, controlled visits are likely to be ordered.  At times, supervised visitation is the decision of one or both parents.

Whether it is out of choice or decreed by the court, Unity Youth and Family Services can provide supervised visits in a friendly and welcoming environment for both the child and their parents. Visits are monitored by a professional and trained staff; our staff can closely observe visits to produce reports on the standard of visits and the activities during them if needed by court.

Parenting Skills and Coaching

We equip parents with the skills and strategies required to stabilize their children effectively. By helping them develop successful parenting, interpersonal, relational, and other coping skills, we allow parents to identify and control problematic attitudes and actions displayed by children in the family, educational, and community environments.