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Services at this Location
0-5 (First 5)
0-5 (First 5) provides intensive supportive services to the families of children (birth through 5) that have mental health needs. The goal is to link the families with needed community resources and mental health treatment to provide the family with the tools necessary to minimize disruption to their lives.
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 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.
Multi-Dimensional Treatment Foster Care
Multi-Dimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) 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.
Outpatient Mental Health
Outpatient treatment serves Medi-Cal eligible and children with Individualized Education Plans, ages 3 to 18, and their families with assessment, individual, group and family therapy services; individual and group skill development; targeted case management and medication evaluation and support services. Service is less intensive and shorter term than the intensive in-home service array. Children are typically referred by schools, child welfare, foster care agencies, juvenile probation and County Mental Health departments.
Wraparound
This program was piloted at EMQ in Santa Clara County and made available State-wide with Senate Bill 163. It is designed to help children and families with complex needs that would otherwise require children be served in residential treatment settings. Funding includes both foster care funds that would have been used for residential treatment as well as mental health services funding. Flexible funding helps families meet needs that are not usually supported by traditional government programs. Services are typically provided for 12 to 18 months. With assistance from the Wraparound team, families are able to locate and secure resources in their own community, develop a family safety plan, and learn to apply the planning process to solve problems unique to their own family with skills that will serve them in the future.
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No child will be discriminated against because of race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age or disability.
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