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Family Care
- Foster family-based treatment program providing several placement options for children and adolescents with special needs.
- Places children and adolescents in the home of specially trained, highly skilled treatment foster parents,
where a professionally developed and supervised treatment plan is implemented daily.
- Kinship Care provides foster care services to children placed in homes of appropriate extended family members
who are trained as treatment foster parents.
- Each youth's treatment consists primarily of skill teaching in the natural everyday environment where the problems
occur.
- Motivation to change is strengthened through a highly individualized motivation system that lists behaviors,
including communication skills, which the youth should engage in each day.
- Strong performance produces numerous privileges at home and in the community.
Community Homes
- Created as an alternative to congregate care, for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children and adolescents.
- Home-like settings with no more than three young people per home.
- Ideal for those who have experienced multiple foster home placements and who present problems too difficult to manage in a traditional foster home.
- Primary goal is to assist all young residents in gaining the social, emotional and life skills needed
to succeed at living productively in the community.
- Serves young people ages 5 to 17 years.
- Candidates for placement include youngsters who have struggled with aggression, problems with authority, school
problems, depression, multiple placements, and previous psychiatric hospitalizations.
- A Professional Parent is the central figure in the successful daily operation of a Community Home, providing
daily therapeutic teaching, counseling, and positive reinforcement.
SCOH (Services to Children in Their Own Home)
- Purpose is to teach the skills and provide the supports that families need to improve their functioning and provide a
safe environment for their children.
- Focuses on teaching effective parenting skills so that parents can provide the supervision, structure and care that their
children require.
- Emphasizes increased family utilization of community resources, so family members can better access these services on a
ongoing basis.
- SCOH Workers provide counseling to the family as a unit, and to individual family members, when appropriate.
Family Focus
- 10-week family preservation program, which provides crisis intervention and parenting education services
to at-risk families.
- Services are provided in the family's home or home community.
- The approach to service delivery is predicated on an empowerment philosophy, which helps to put families in charge
of their own destiny.
- Intended to: stabilize families and ensure that all family members are safe; teach parents and children new skills which will increase
coping and problem-solving abilities; strengthen family functioning by identifying and expanding adaptive behaviors;
and empower families to change and limit placement, should it occur, to short-term emergency or respite placement.
- Primary goal is to prevent the unnecessary out-of-home placement of children.
Behavioral Health Services
- Intended to help children and adolescents confront and resolve a variety of disorders or mental health conditions.
- Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) Programs draw heavily on family system approaches to provide a full
range of mental health services to children.
- EPSDT "Wraparound" Services are available to children in need of expanded mental health services.
- Partial Hospitalization Services provide integrated behavioral health services to children and adolescents after school
or during the day for those whose emotional status keeps them from school.
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