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Causes: Human Services, Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Mission: Changing the way america cares for children, families, and communities by providing and promoting an integrated continuum of care that instills boys town values to strengthen body, mind and spirit.
Programs: Family home services is a family style, community-based residential program, which can serve six to eight males or females, usually ages 10-18. Married couples called family teachers are the primary treatment agents, along with a full-time assistant family teacher. Family teachers are responsible for structured supervision of youth in daily living and treatment activities. The couple and their assistant work on both treatment and skill building in the home, and with community and family resources in the childs life while coordinating additional support through the clinical and psychiatric team, with an overall goal of the child generalizing these new skills into the community and family settings. A major focus of this program is teaching older youth functional skills - often referred to as independent-living skills - that help them achieve success in school, their families, and work settings. Boys town nevada, inc. Has five treatment family homes located in northwest las vegas, just
in-home family services include family preservation services, family centered services, and aftercare services. Family preservation services is a short-term, six-to-eight week, intensive, in-home program designed to prevent imminent out-of-home placement and keep families together. A family consultant spends up to 20 hours a week in a familys home and community to help parents provide a safe, healthy environment for their children. The family consultant focuses on family strengths, helping the family to become self-sufficient, and improve parenting techniques. The family consultant not only provides interventions in the familys own home and community, but also links the family to community resources needed to maintain stability. Family consultants are on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Family centered services is an early intervention program designed to treat and address youth and family problems at home or school. The main goals of this program are to build family strengths, teach new skills, and reduce out-of-home placement of children. This program is for families
common sense parenting includes a series of educational sessions designed to help improve parenting styles using behavior management skills. Classes are for parents of children six and older. The program provides parents and other caregivers with proven techniques that can help them build good family relationships, prevent and correct misbehaviors, use consequences to improve behavior, and teach self-control.