Trauma-Focused Integrated Play Therapy (TFIPT)
Trauma-Focused Integrated Play Therapy (TFIPT) is a program that uses a combination of directive and nondirective approaches to advance structured, goal-oriented therapy for abused children ages 5 to 17 and their families. TFIPT includes a focused interest in facilitating, encouraging, and allowing nondirective play therapy that often leads to children’s discovery and utilization of post-traumatic play, which is a unique form of play that’s a spontaneous occurrence with young children who experience psychic trauma. Post-Traumatic play appears to be a child’s natural way to induce gradual exposure, narrative formation, and trauma processing. TFIPT is recommended as weekly one =-hour sessions [...]
Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO)
Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) was developed as an alternative to institutional, residential, and group care placements for children and youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. TFCO is tailored to the developmental needs of children across two age ranges: TFCO-C serves children 7-11, and TCFO-A serves youth ages 12-17. Two major aims of TFCO are to create opportunities for children to successfully live in a family setting, rather than in group or institutional settings, and to help caregivers provide effective parenting. There are five key areas TFCO focuses on: (1) consistent, reinforcing environment with mentoring and encouragement; (2) daily [...]
Triple P – Positive Parenting Program
The Triple P-Positive Parenting Program is a multi-tiered system of five levels of education and support for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents ages 0 to 16. Triple P helps parents learn strategies that promote social competence and self-regulation in children, so they’re better equipped to handle the stress of everyday child rearing and children become better able to respond to their individual developmental challenges. Triple P is also used to prevent the development or worsening of severe behavioral, emotional, and developmental problems. Triple P can be used in parts or as a whole system. Triple P has materials [...]
Triple P – Positive Parenting Program – Level 4 (Level 4 Triple P)
Level 4 Triple P is one of the five levels of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program system. Level 4 Triple P helps parents learn strategies that promote social competence and self-regulation and decrease problem behaviors. Parents are encouraged to develop a parenting plan using “Level 4-Triple P” tools and strategies, then practice the parenting plans with their children. Parents will fine tune their parenting plan with practitioners based on if it’s working or not. Level 4 Triple P is offered in several formats: individual, group, self-direct, and online. The program typically takes place over 2-3 months, but duration may be [...]
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of children who have experienced adversity, early harm, toxic stress, and/or trauma. TBRI is based on a foundation of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research. TBRI consists of three sets of harmonious principles: (1) Empowering to address physical needs; (2) Connecting for attachment needs; and (3) Correcting to disarm fear-based behaviors. TBRI is used worldwide in homes, residential facilities, group homes, schools, camps, schools, juvenile justice facilities, courts, with survivors of sex trafficking, in faith communities, courts, with law enforcement, in clinical practices, [...]
Tuning in to Kids (TIK)
Tuning in to Kids (TIK) is a parenting program for caregivers of children between 3 and 12 years old that focuses on emotions and is designed to help parents develop better relationships with their children. TIK teaches parents simple emotion coaching skills- how to recognize, understand, and manage their own and their children’s emotions. The program aims to prevent problems developing in children, promote emotional competence in parents and children, and reduce and treat problems with children’s emotional and behavioral functioning. Delivery options for TIK range from 6-session program with the general community through a 10-session program for clinical/high need [...]
Tuning in to Teens (TINT)
Tuning in to Teens (TINT) is a parenting program that focuses on emotions and is designed to assist parents to establish better relationships with their adolescents ages 10 -18. TINT is based on the Tuning into Kids parenting program. TINT teaches parents emotions coaching skills as a way of responding to their children in a way that maintains a connected relationship. The recommended duration of TINT delivery is 6 weekly 2-hour sessions for a lower needs’ community group. 1-2 booster sessions are recommended bi monthly for all groups. TINT can be delivered in a community daily living setting, hospital, outpatient [...]
Utah – HomeWorks
HomeWorks is a Utah DCFS program that provides in-home services to families. HomeWorks services can be court-ordered or non-court ordered. All HomeWorks cases will be supported by a caseworker using various tools to help identify family’s strengths and needs including: Structured Decision Making to help identify child safety and risk issues; Child and Family Team Meetings to set goals and create plans; Safety plan that shows how safety concerns will be managed; Utah Family and Child Engagement Tool that helps identify family’s strengths and needs; and Child and family plan that will address needs identified and connect to community resources.
Vermont Consortium for Adoption & Guardianship
The Vermont Consortium for Adoption and Guardianship is a network of agencies, groups, and individuals providing a continuum of adoption services including: in-home adjusted parent education; consultation to treatment teams and educational advocacy; referrals to community resources; general adoption/guardianship information; kinship placement support; support groups; education and training for foster, adoptive, and guardianship families; and a lending library.
Washington State Kinship Navigator Program
The Kinship Navigator Program in Washington State is a statewide program that provides a human services worker known as a Kinship Navigator that provides services to kinship care families in a single or multi-county area or for one of the eight Tribes. The role of the Kinship Navigator is to connect grandparents and relatives who are raising children with community resources, such as health, financial, legal services, support groups, training, and emergency funds. The Kinship Navigator Program provides resources, information and support to assist family members who are raising their relative’s children, either temporarily or long term. Length and duration [...]