HOF Future Plans - The BRIDGE Program

The BRIDGE, Bringing Real Intervention to Develop Growth and Education, is a unique program that provides a residential setting for pregnant or parenting women and their children (0-5 years old). This setting provides a holistic approach for women to address their individual challenges while sustaining familial and parenting bonds, strengthening parenting skills (reducing infant mortality, child abuse and neglect), and providing opportunities to reduce intergenerational dependence on social services through continuing education, job training, psychological support, learning healthy lifestyle principles and spiritual guidance.

The population served in the BRIDGE Program is single mothers currently living in the Greater Dayton area.  Contact us for more information regarding specific eligibility requirements.  Each case will be reviewed on an individual basis.

Our goal is to promote independence and healthy lifestyles among women and their children by providing a comprehensive continuum of services to address the 8 dimensions of wellness as established by the Mental Health Services Administration: Emotional, Financial, Social, Spiritual, Occupational, Physical, Intellectual, and Environmental.  

BRIDGE clients receive individual psychotherapy on and participate in group therapy. Children in treatment with their mothers receive bimonthly individual, family therapy. They also participate in weekly structured parent-child play. 

Specific treatment modalities include trauma therapy, group therapy, and skill building techniques. Clients focus on communicating thoughts and feelings, examining factors that contribute to their current situation, develop prevention strategies, correcting interpersonal difficulties and dealing with issues of grief and loss. Clients may be survivors of sexual and physical abuse. Treatment services seek to help women cope with their survival status and to avoid perpetuation of that trauma in their children’s lives.

For many families, our BRIDGE program is the first stable and safe home. Prior to entry into the BRIDGE program, child/parent interactions, such as reading, arts, and crafts, or playtime, may have been limited. The program is designed to promote increased parent-child interaction, foster healthy development, and provide the family with access to appropriate familial, social, educational and social opportunities.