Therapeutic Foster Care

Goals

  • To provide healthy, nurturing and skilled caregivers for children/youth needing family care.
  • To provide a “family-based” treatment model for children/youth with high-needs.
  • To provide a broad array of services designed to develop and maintain positive, productive and healthy behaviors and lifestyles in foster children/youth.
  • To facilitate a successful transition from foster care to the biological family, or from permanent placement to independent living.

Programs

  • Therapeutic Foster Care
    Family-based treatment designed to stabilize children/youth, helping them transition back to family, to independence or to another permanent living situation.
  • Emergency Shelter Care
    Immediate foster care that is available 24 hours per day, seven days per week for abused, neglected or disrupted children/youth.
  • Intensive Therapeutic Foster Care
    A foster family specially trained in caring for a child/youth with emotional and/or behavioral challenges, coupled with intensive clinical services provided by the Family Care Network, such as: in-home support, individual and family counseling, and substantial foster family support.
  • Wraparound Foster Care (WFC)
    Family-based treatment in a very structured behavioral management system to support children/youth with emotional and/or behavioral challenges as they work to reunify with family or a more permanent placement.
  • Crisis-Stabilization Foster Care (CFC)
    Family-based short-term crisis stabilization in a structured behavioral management system to support emotionally and behaviorally challenged children/youth that are experiencing an acute crisis, with the intent of family reunification or transition to a more permanent placement.

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