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Family-based services  Family based services build on family strengths to help meet a child's safety and attachment needs. Services are provided to prevent placement of children in foster care whenever possible; to help reunify children placed in foster care, or to help identify alternative permanent homes when necessary. Family Decision Meeting Services Family decision meetings such as the statutory, Oregon Family Decision Meeting, or the Casey Family-to-Family Team Decision Meeting model, are used to help identify the safety, permanence and well-being needs of children, and to identify family strengths and outside resources to help meet those needs.Family Decision Meetings are a collaborative process that may include immediate and extended family members, selected family network persons, and community professionals who know the parents and child. Also see:
Family Sex Abuse Treatment Services Family Sexual Abuse Treatment Services provide age appropriate group treatment for victims; group treatment and support for non-offending parents; individual counseling when necessary; and coordination with offender treatment therapists, community mental health providers, law enforcement and other community partners.Housekeeper Services Housekeeper Services are available for families where a child is at risk of out-of-home placement. These services can be utilized when the child's caretaker is precluded from carrying out routine, necessary housekeeping duties due to a short term absence or incapacitating situation such as illness, severe emotional stress, complication of pregnancy, or due to unusual requirements for the care of ill or handicapped children.Intensive Family Services Intensive Family Services (IFS) are the contracted family treatment services provided to client families where abuse or neglect has occurred, or for foster/adoptive families struggling with placement issues. These services are limited to an average of three months, but may be extended if necessary.Intensive Home-Based Services Intensive Home-Based Services (IHS) are a brief, (2 to 4 week) contracted family preservation program that helps a families to meet their concrete needs; provides parenting skills; helps parents and family members develop child safety plans; designs behavior modification programs; develops cognitive skills; teaches conflict resolution; and links the family to broad-based community resources after treatment.Parent Training Services Parent Training services are designed to improve and strengthen parenting skills in families where parental abuse or neglect of children has occurred, and the children are at risk for placement or have already been placed outside the home.Supportive/Remedial Day Care Supportive/Remedial Day Care (S/R Day Care) is a temporary day care service provided as part of a coordinated, goal-oriented, time limited casework plan to enable a child to remain at home as an alternative to substitute care, or to help a child return home sooner through specialized day care planning.For more information on Family-Based Services please contact: Ted Keys, Program Coordinator, 503-945-6614 email: ted.keys@state.or.us |
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