SERVICES PROVIDED
Youth:
- Initial and Ongoing Assessment of the youth’s emotional, educational, behavioral, nutritional, and medical needs (independent living assessment if age appropriate)
- Comprehensive Social History
- Comprehensive Treatment and Service Plan, development and implementation, including treatment goal development
- Face-to-Face Assessment (frequency and intensity determined by level of care) in order to monitor progress towards treatment goals, provide counseling, and education if needed
- Contact with collateral resources in order to provide “Continuity of Care” (frequency and intensity determined by level of care)
- Provide Monthly reports, Quarterly reports, and Quarterly CTSP updates to referral source
- Attend and report progress, goals, treatment services to FAPT/CAT, court reviews
- Coordinate and lead quarterly Treatment Team meetings
- Monthly Educational Peer Group counseling
- Assist foster parent/youth in transportation if necessary
- Respite Care (determined by level of care)
- 24 hour on call crisis management/support services
Biological Families:
- Consultation
- Training (either individual, or through pre-service and ongoing if appropriate)
- Comprehensive Family/Parenting Assessment, utilizing, but not limited to the following: Ecomap, Family Life Cycle, Structured Family Assessment (assess relationships, issues of power/control, roles, and boundaries), Genogram, Descriptors, Bio/Psycho/Social Assessment, Strengths and Needs Assessment, Family System Analysis, and Recommendations. Note: this assessment will be completed if deemed appropriate by referral source and/or youth’s permanency goal
- Involvement in Treatment planning for youth, and updated of progress when appropriate. (Frequency/intensity determined by Family/Parenting Assessment and youth’s level of care)
- Coordinate/Supervise visitation between youth and biological family (as determined by DHS or court)
Foster Families:
- Foster/Adoptive parent Pre-Service and Continuing Training
- Supervision, Education, Support, and Guidance in implementation of CTSP
- 24 hour on call crisis management/support services
- Individual/Group Counseling
- Specialized Training (if needed) including utilizing outside and community resources
- Pre-Placement counseling/consultation (reviewing documentation with staff to determine if a match and placement would be successful)
- Short Term Foster Care (determined by youth’s level of care)
