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Family Centered Treatment (FCT) is designed for families that have experienced multiple primary traumas including victims with exposure to violence, neglect, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, abandonment, losses, complex trauma and domestic violence. Families experiencing adoption disruption and those with secondary trauma from medical complexities are also included. FCT is a home-based intervention that focuses on the family unit as a whole, instead of just the individual. Treatment includes four phases: (1) Joining and Assessment Phase: Practitioners respond to referrals quickly to engage with family when they are in crisis and more likely to be motivated to examine/change behaviors. During [...]

Family Connections (FC) is a multifaceted, community-based service program that works with vulnerable families in their homes and in the context of their neighborhoods to help them meet the basic needs of their children and prevent child maltreatment. The target population is families with children (birth to 18) who meet risk criteria for child maltreatment (criteria are adapted based on geographic differences). Children must have lived in the home of the primary caregiver for 6 months or more. FC should be delivered a minimum of one hour of face-to-face contact between the social worker and client weekly. The duration of [...]

The Family Focus Adoption In-House Transition service focuses on the period of time when a child moves into a pre-adoptive home, until the adoption is finalized (or the placement is disrupted). Each transition has a team of workers: one worker assigned exclusively to the child, one worker assigned exclusively to the family, a continuity worker, agency caseworker, and county caseworker. It is imperative that both the child and maybe parent(s) have their own workers who provide separate supports and services, so open and honest discussions about the transition can happen. The continuity worker is the first team member to meet [...]

FGDM recognizes the importance of involving family groups in decision making about children (ages 0 – 17) who need protection or care, and it can be initiated by child welfare agencies whenever a critical decision about a child is required. In FGDM, a trained coordinator who is independent of the case brings together the family group and the agency personnel to create and carry out a plan to safeguard children and other family members. FGDM then positions the family group to lead decision making, and the statutory authorities agree to support family group plans that adequately address agency concerns. The [...]

Fostering Healthy Futures®- Preteen (FHF-P) is a positive youth development program for preadolescent youth, ages 9 to 11, who have current or previous child welfare involvement due to one or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). ACEs may include experiencing maltreatment; out-of-home placement; instability in housing, caregivers or schools; and/or parental substance use, mental illness, or incarceration. The program uses a combination of individual mentoring and group-based skills training to promote healthy development and reduce risk factors for adverse outcomes. For the skills groups, children meet for 1.5 hours a week for 30 weeks with a group size of 8 – [...]

Functional Family Therapy through Child Welfare (FFT-CW) is an evidence-based adaptation of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) that was designed to provide services to youth (0-18 years old) and families in child welfare settings. Services are provided through two tracks based on initial level of risk: – Low Risk (LR) track: Interventions are provided by case manager level providers and involve engaging and linking to community services. – High Risk (HR) track: Services are provided by therapists directly to family members. Sites can implement either or both tracks depending on need and relevant risk factors. Services last approximately 5 to 7 [...]

GenerationPMTO (formerly known as Parenting Management Training – The Oregon Model (PMTO)) is a parent training intervention that can be used in various parenting contexts including grandparent-led, adoptive parents, and other primary caregivers. GenerationPMTO can be used as a prevention program and a treatment program. This program directly provides services to caregivers of children/youth ages 2 to 18 with disruptive behaviors. Recommended duration of service delivery is 10 to 25 individual/family sessions, depending on the severity of the case. More mild cases can be conducted in 6 to 8 sessions. Each session is delivered in a 60-minute weekly interval. The [...]

Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices is a early childhood curriculum and teaching training program that seeks to develop social-emotional skills such as self-control, problem-solving, and healthy decision-making in children ages 3-8 in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. The program fosters both the personal traits of resilience and the nurturing environments children need to overcome difficulties and fully develop their talents and capabilities. A classroom teacher will deliver 10 to 15-minute lessons twice a week that may include guided creative play, brainstorming, puppetry, original music, and movement. A nine-lesson booster curriculum can be used in second or third grade with [...]

HOMEBUILDERS is home- and community-based intensive family preservation services program designed to improve family functioning and children’s behavior and to prevent out-of-home placement of children into foster or group care, psychiatric hospitals, or correctional facilities. It is the oldest and best-documented Intensive Family Preservation Services program in the United States. This program model engages families by delivering services in their natural environment, at times when they are most receptive to learning, and by enlisting them as partners in assessment, goal setting, and treatment planning. Recommended service delivery intensity is three to five 2-hour sessions contact per week; an average of [...]

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services contracts with private agencies across the state to provide intensive, family-centered support and therapeutic services to help families formed through adoption and guardianship gain stability and reduce the risk of out of home placement. The Adoption Support and Preservation (ASAP) programs are voluntary and available to all adoptions (including domestic private, intercountry and adoptions from foster care) and subsidized guardianship families for free. Each ASAP agency offers a variety of strengths-based and trauma informed therapeutic interventions, which allows the flexibility to effectively meet the needs of the families and children. ASAP services [...]