Community Outreach and Projects

Childhood Intervention Project

Trinity Counseling Service partners with the Princeton Nursery School and the Princeton Regional School System to early identify and treat emerging behavioral and developmental problems in children pre-K through 12th grades. By catching a problem before it spirals out of control, we can powerfully impact children’s lives and help them and their families address:

• Anxiety and stress: academic, social and family
• Depression
• Attention difficulties
• Emotional and behavioral problems
• Potential for violence and abuse

Therapeutic Infant and Parenting Skills

The Therapeutic Infant Parenting Skills Project (TIPS) is another outreach of Trinity Counseling Service. Through our work over the past years with nursery school and elementary school children, we have observed that many of the behavioral and emotional obstacles these children face are related to factors that occurred during pregnancy or infancy.

Through the TIPS project, our knowledgeable child psychologists establish trust, share knowledge, buttress self confidence, and provide emotional support to young girls and their infants. Ongoing contact facilitates the young mother’s efforts and provides for regular contact between her, her infant and our child psychologist. To best meet the needs of the mother and infant, services are frequently provided in the infant’s home. Here, we help the parent through the various stages of infancy, generally over a 2-3 year period, providing therapeutic interventions and clinically based coaching at crucial developmental stages – pre-natal, immediately after birth and through infancy. We recognize the importance of the mother’s (or parent’s) family or support system, and we include them as an integral part of our therapeutic strategies

Education and support better equips mothers to meet the needs of their infants and this in turn leads to a more successful nursery school experience. Because success in early education frequently correlates with success in middle school and high school, the impact of this project is on-going.

Wellness Workshops

We address congregations, corporations and civic groups on such topics as:

• Communication Skills in Marriage
• Effective Parenting
• Illness and Family
• Stress Management