We Help Bring You And Your Family Together To Work As a Team

Family Group Decision Making

Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) is a meeting about your family. It brings together your family, relatives, friends, caseworker, and community supports in a positive way to work as a team. We offer this a voluntary community service available to all families living in Lycoming County.  

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We Realize That The Strength of the Family Lies Within.

Family Group Decision Making helps you make important family decisions.

We help focus on your strengths, address concerns and help you and your family develop a plan you approve.

We then provide support for your decisions and your plan.

We Help In The Following Ways

  • Bring together your family and friends to help make important family decisions

  • Identify family and friends to provide you with positive support

  • Allows your family to resolve family concerns

  • Support adult family members to reduce life stressors

  • Assure the well-being and the safety of your children

  • Ask family who could provide temporary care of your children

  • Develop a visitation plan and/or custody plan

  • Get on the same page to move forward in a positive direction

  • Strengthen your family

What Is A Family Group Decision Making Meeting?

  • A meeting is for you and your support members to address an issue of concern within your family

  • Is a voluntary service in the community available to all families

  • A trained coordinator brings together your invited family group and the agency staff

  • Is family driven. You invite your family, extended family, friends and community supports to attend this meeting

  • Is a one-time family meeting; allowing for a follow-up meeting if you choose

  • You decide where you want to hold the meeting

  • You and your family group members work together

  • A plan is developed by the family group members during the meeting

  • Then a plan is typed up after the meeting and distributed to your group members

  • Is provided at no cost to you or your family