ACCESS
Services are strength-based and are designed to address the needs of children and adolescents who are transitioning from out-of-home placements back home or are at risk of out-of-home placement and need intensive interventions to remain stable in the community. Services are generally more intensive at the beginning of treatment and decrease over time as coping skills develop. Individuals have access to interventions 24 hours a day, 7 days per week by staff that will maintain contact and intervene as one organizational unit.
TEAM APPROACH
Our Intensive In-Home program uses a team approach to provide an intensive family preservation service intended to stabilize the living arrangements, promote reunification or prevent the utilization of out-of-home therapeutic resources. The team services are individually designed for each family, in full partnership with the family, to minimize intrusion, and maximize independence. The team services are structured and delivered face-to-face to provide support and guidance. The results of this team intervention include: the youth’s living arrangements stabilized, crisis needs resolved, linkage to community service and resources, increased living skills; increase parenting skills and the need for out of home placements has been reduced or eliminated.
Delivered primarily in the family's home with a focus to:
· Diffuse current crisis, evaluate its nature and intervene to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence
· Ensure linkage to needed community services and resources
· Provide self help and living skills training for youth
· Provide parenting skills training to help the family build skills for coping with youth's disorder
· Monitor and manage the presenting psychiatric and addiction symptoms
· Work with caregivers in the implementation of home based behavioral supports.
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