Boys Town of Washington DC

Direct beneficiaries per year: 450

Geographic areas served: Washington, DC Metro Area

Programs: Family home services consist of family homes for adolescents and multidemensional foster care. A family home for adolescents is a family style, community based residential program, which can serve five to six males or females, usually ages 12-18. Married couples called family teachers are responsible for structured supervision of youth in daily living and structured activities. The couple and their assistant work on both therapy and skill building in the home, and with community and family resources in the childs life. A major focus of this program is teaching older youth functional skills- often referred to as independent-living skills that can help them achieve success in school, their families, and work settings. Boys town washington d. C. Inc. Has five family homes in the district.

foster family services is a family-based, community foster care program that consists of traditional and therapeutic foster care. It is operated by specially trained and supervised foster parents to serve foster children with traditional foster care placement or therapeutic foster care placement designated with therapeutic or specialized needs. Foster parents care for youth of all ages - infancy through adolescence. Boys town washington d. C. Inc. , recruits, trains, and supervises foster parents, enabling them to care for youth with traditional or specialized needs in their private homes. A major focus of this program is teaching older youth functional skills-often referred to as independent living skills that can help them achieve success in school, their families, and work settings and provide a stable placement for younger children as they work toward permanency. Foster parents receive 24 hour on-call support and treatment advice from boys town washington d. C. , inc. Professionals.

in-home family services provide intensive in-home treatment for families that are struggling to stay together or are in crisis. Services are delivered to families in their own homes by trained boys town family consultants who help parents build on their strengths and enhance or learn new parenting skills. Boys town washington d. C. Inc. S target population is children who have been recently released from a juvenile justice facility and are returning home and for children experiencing truancy problems attending dc public schools. Boys town washington d. C. Inc. S family consultants work one-on-one in the home with the youth and their parent or caregiver to assist the youth in developing appropriate coping and behavior skills and social skills in order to reduce recidivism. Family consultants are trained to work for 8-10 weeks with each family to teach methods and systems that will keep their families together and address current and potential roadblocks to the familys success. With the support of community partnerships with lead entities progressive life center and the east of the