Goals:

• Maintain children/youth in a permanent and stable family setting
• Prevent the removal and placement of children/youth into institutional care
• Stabilize the behavior of children/youth to encourage positive life choices
• Strengthen and empower parents and caregivers to develop the resources and skills necessary to effectively parent children/youth
• Assist families in developing a community-based support system to become self-reliant

Programs:

• Familia de Novo (Wraparound)
  Wraparound Services that are designed to keep children/youth at home as an alternative to institutional care.

• Mental Health Services Act Full Service Partnership Program (FSP)
  In partnership with County Behavioral Health, this program provides In-home Support Counselors/Behavioral Specialists under the County’s new MHSA Full Service Partnership Program to work in a specialized, intensive services team. The FSP program is designed to provide services to underserved or non-served clients.

• Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS)
  Short-term, one-on-one individualized behavioral counseling intervention designed to stabilize the behavior of children/youth and prevent removal from home or to assist children/youth transitioning back into the home from a higher level of care such as an inpatient hospital or a group home.

• Outpatient Counseling
  Individual and family counseling services provided on a sliding-scale basis with the primary focus of strengthening and preserving families. Counseling services include: child therapy, individual and family therapy, marriage counseling, parent-child conflict resolution, parent education and training, and grief counseling.

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