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Developed by the Annie E Casey Foundation, the Lifelong Families Model is a collaborative approach to permanency planning for youth in foster care or at risk of entering the foster care system. The model is composed of five principles (urgency, advocacy, responsibility, concurrency, and trauma-focus) and components (permanency teaming, permanency-focused case management, permanency preparation, permanent family identification and engagement, and permanency support planning). Services are guided by an implementation manual.

The Milwaukee Mobile Crisis team provides mental health crisis responses and intervention services on-site, in-person and face-to-face to individuals of all ages, in the community. This non-police mobile response provides services 24/7, and is composed of counselors, therapists, psychologists, and nurses. The Milwaukee Mobile Crisis also provides mental health assessments, assistance with stabilization, and connections to on-going resources.

The Minnesota HELP Program services are free and available to any Minnesota adoptive, kinship, or foster family; adopted persons; birth/first family members and community professionals. A team of HELP Specialists with advanced training in supporting adoptive, foster, and kinship families will provide phone and email-based support; connect families to adoption/trauma/attachment-competent therapists, appropriate community resources, and educational offerings; assist eligible families with funding to help with cost of therapy, educational offerings and eligible supports. The HELP Program can be reached by phone number or email. They respond to inquires within 24-48 hours Monday – Friday.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, directive method designed to enhance client motivation for behavior change. It focuses on exploring and resolving ambivalence by increasing intrinsic motivation to change. It can be used by itself or in combination with other treatments. MI directly provides services to adults and addresses substance abuse or dependence and other health/lifestyle behavior change issues. Services are provided in 1 – 3 individual 30 to 50-minute sessions. MI can be delivered in a hospital, outpatient clinic, community-based agency, and residential care. MI has materials in Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, [...]

Multisystemic Therapy with Psychiatric Supports (MST-Psych) is designed to serve families with youth ages 9-17 who are at risk for out-of-home placement (in some cases, psychiatric hospitalization) due to serious behavioral problems, substance use, and/or co-occurring mental health symptoms. The goal of MST-Psych is to improve behavioral problems, mental health symptoms, suicidal behaviors, and family relations while increasing youth time spent going to school and living in home-based placements. MST-Psych may be eligible for Title IV-E Transitional funding via the Family First Prevention Services Act. MST focuses on addressing all environmental systems that impact youth: their homes and families, schools [...]

Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) is an integrated, comprehensive, family-centered treatment for adolescents ages 11 to 18 substance use, delinquency, and related behavioral and emotional problems. MDFT therapists focuses on 4 key areas of the adolescent’s life: the adolescent, parent, family, and community. Therapy sessions are held alone with the youth, alone with the parents, and with youth and parents together. Once youth and parent motivation are enhanced, the therapist will focus on facilitating behavioral and interactional changes. In the final stage, MDFT works to solidify those changes. For at-risk and early intervention, therapists typically provide 1-2 sessions per week, with [...]

The National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI) has developed two state-of-the-art, standardized, web-based trainings to build the capacity of child welfare and mental health professionals in all states, tribes, and territories to effectively support children, youth, and their foster, adoptive, and guardianship families. The NTI trainings provide the skills, strategies, and tools professionals need to: (1) Support children to heal from trauma and loss; (2) Provide parents with skills to parent more effectively; (3) Collaborate effectively with child welfare and mental health professionals; and (4) Improve outcomes for permanency, child well-being, and family well-being and stability. The Child [...]

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Family-to-Family is a free, 8-session educational program for family, significant others and friends of people living with serious mental illness. Family-to-Family is taught by NAMI-training family members who have similar experiences, and includes presentations, discussions and interactive exercises. A Spanish-language version of NAMI Family-to-Family, De Familia de NAMI, is available in a limited number of states.

The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC) was funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau. The NTDC curriculum provides ongoing development for parents who want to foster, adopt (child welfare, intercountry or private domestic), or those who provide kinship care. NTDC consists of three components: (1) Self-Assessment, (2) Classroom-Based Training, and (3) Right-Time Training. The Self-Assessment is a self-administered, self-discovery tool that provides families the opportunity to learn more about themselves as they considered the characteristics and competencies important when parenting [...]

The Neighbor to Family (NTF) Sibling Foster Care Model is designed to keep sibling groups, including large sibling groups, together in stable foster care placements while working intensively on reunification or permanency plans that keep the siblings together. NTF accepts siblings between the ages 0-21 who are in custody of the child welfare system.