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Services at this Location
Differential Response
Differential Response provides in-home support and case management services for families whose potential child welfare case has been assessed and not formally opened, but who still have needs. The focus of service is enhancing parenting, communication and other skills that support the healthy development of children, as well as obtaining community resources.
Enhanced Classroom
Enhanced Classroom provides mental health services in the context of a regular school day. The students spend a class period or a partial day in the enhanced classroom and the balance of their day in mainstreamed classrooms.
Foster Care and Adoption Services
Resource Family and Permanency Services matches children from birth to age eighteen with resource (foster and kinship) families when children are unable to remain at home with their birth families. Children and birth families are provided ongoing support services with a goal of family reunification or other permanency options such as adoption. The program has a full service adoption license supporting permanence for children and families. For information about becoming a foster or adoptive parent, call toll-free (877) 488-5437 or email. Someone will contact you to discuss becoming a FamilesFirst foster parent.
Intensive Day Treatment
Intensive Day Treatment Services provide mental health services during an extended school day to support the treatment needs of children who would otherwise be limited in their ability to participate in a school environment.
Intensive Family Preservation
Intensive Family Preservation provides in-home family counseling, skill building and support services. All of the families are referred when at least one child is at risk of removal or they are returning home from placement. Services are provided on average for 10 weeks.
Intensive Treatment Foster Care
Intensive Treatment Foster Care (ITFC) offers specialized training and support for foster caregivers to become part of a team of therapeutic services helping a child to thrive in a family setting and to achieve permanency. Linkage and support to permanent family is the hallmark of these services, with family therapy and other services provided to meet the unique needs of children and families. Services are highly individualized for children and adolescents with substantial behavioral and therapeutic needs. Mental health services are supported with contracts from the local county Mental Health Department.
Kinship Support Services
Kinship Support Services provide resources for relatives raising the child of a family member; this is primarily but not only grandparents raising their grandchildren. Services include support groups, recreation and respite opportunities; afterschool services; educational workshops; case management and advocacy; basic needs assistance with and help with legal guardianship, etc.
Transitional Housing
Transitional Housing provides affordable, supported apartment living allows youth to gain concrete adult life skills, while developing and implementing plans that lead towards successful emancipation from foster care and a connection to a caring adult.
» Frequently Asked Questions
No child will be discriminated against because of race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age or disability.
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