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Foster Family Services Include:
- Individualized treatment planning
- Behavior modification plans
- Daily telephone contact when necessary
- Weekly in-home visits designed to create a safe, structured, therapeutic environment for each child
- Assistance with transportation when emergent situations occur
- Family activites to enhance sense of community within program for all families, staff, and youth
- 24 hour crisis intervention services
- Ongoing assessment
- School liaison
- Case management coordination, liaison, advocacy and counseling
- Therapeutic activities: job training, independent living skills programs, community resources
- Training/Support Groups: provided monthly in 2 regions, parent support, and child specific training as well as monthly youth workshops
- Access and linkage to community resources: therapists, psychiatrists, recovery groups, ILS and ROP programs
- Respite care
- Family Reunification: coordination, planning, and counseling
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Foster Youth Support Services Include:
- A consistent and highly structured home environment provided by the foster parents with supervision and support of the NAI social worker
- Family counseling
- School advocacy and liaison including academic and behavioral assessment to afford child's best school placement to enhance their successful participation.
- Individual therapy
- Behavioral incentive contracts
- Psychiatric services, medication monitoring, and emergency psychiatric services
- Small group therapy
- In-home psycho-educational training
- Crisis intervention services provided 24 hours a day
- Natural family contact and involvement if approved
- Support to enhance and promote development of youth's own goals and objectives
- Multiple adults to support, problem solve and advocate for youth's success
- Focus on strengths, past successes and abilities
- Extracurricular activities
- Camp experience
- Sense of belonging to Neighborhood community of caring people
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