FFD coaches and staff start with the understanding that all families have strengths.  With families, coaches work together to connect parents and children to the FFD educational programming, as well as needed resources for such things as:  safety and basic needs, health & mental health services, legal, housing, transportation and children’s services. An FFD Coach is a professional staff person who works one-on-one with parents and children in a collaborative process to help identify and achieve individual and family goals and keeps the whole family in mind as they work with participants to remove the barriers to success.