IFPS

Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS)

Director & Supervisor: Dr. Sheila Cooley-Parker, PhD 

Supervisor: Karen Denny (Mayfield)

FPP Coordinator: Stephanie P’Pool

Hopkinsville (Central Office)

Address: 1100 South Liberty Street

P.O. Box 549

Hopkinsville, KY 42240

Phone: (270) 707-9735

Fax: (270) 707-9737

Email: shelia.colley-parker@pacs-ky.org

Princeton (Satellite Office)

Address: 307 East Main Street

P.O. Box 1102

Princeton, KY 42445

Phone: (270) 365-6402

Fax: (270) 365-7463

Mayfield (Satellite Office)

Address: 229 West Walnut Street

P.O. Box 232

Mayfield, KY 42066

Phone: (270) 247-7072

Fax: (270) 247-7880

Counties Served: The FPP programs service the seventeen (17) counties of Western Kentucky DCBS area “The Lakes”

Pennyrile: Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd, and Trigg

Purchase: Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall, and McCracken

Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS):

The goal of the program is to work with families whose children, under age 18, are at imminent risk of removal to prevent the unnecessary placement of the children into out of home care. IFPS works with the families in their homes to set goals and achieve results that provide for safety, permanence and wellbeing of the children and family. IFPS Specialists works with two (2) families at a time from four (4) to six (6) weeks giving each family an average of six (6) to ten (10) per week of services. The IFPS Specialist are available to the families twenty-four (24) hours per day seven (7) days per week and able to work a flexible schedule. Services provided to the families include, but are not limited to; modeling desired behavior; parenting education and skills; child development training; advocacy with courts, schools and other service agencies; communication skills building; home maintenance skills; linkage with other community resources, facilities and transportation.

Referral Process:

Only DCBS/P&P and RIAC may refer families to this program. All referrals must be approved by the Referral and Selection person in the DCBS District office in your area. The original referral must be given to the IFPS worker at the time the case is opened.

*TANF cases must meet TANF eligibility criteria.

Pennyrile Allied Community Services, Inc. is "An Equal Opportunity Employer"

"This program is funded whole or in part by both state and federal funds through the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services".