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Programs: Family home services consist of family homes for adolescents, family homes for siblings, and treatment foster care. Treatment family homes for adolescents is a family style, residential program, which can serve six to eight males, usually ages 12 to 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. 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. Additionally, the site serves 5 youth at one time, ages-18, in a professional foster home on our family home campus. This allows youth who need emergency placement and extra treatment to receive services in the most family like manner. Treatment family

foster family services is a community based program operated by specially trained supervised treatment foster parents to serve foster children with treatment needs. In this program, treatment foster parents care for youth ages 2-18 who need more attention and treatment than is provided in a traditional foster care placement. Boys town new england, inc. Recruits, trains, and supervises treatment foster parents, enabling them to care for youth with special needs in their private homes. Specially trained foster parents teach everyday skills that can help youth achieve success in school, their families, and work settings. Treatment foster parents receive 24-hour, on-call support and treatment advice from boys town new england, inc. Professionals.

in-home family services provides life-changing care to families that are struggling to stay together or are in danger of having a child removed from the home. The main goal of the program is to keep the family whole, whenever possible. Ihfs can also help with reunification of youth back to their home from out of home placement. Family consultants work in the parents home helping them to improve their parenting skills and create a safe, nurturing environment. Family consultants are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 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 who need supportive services to address high-risk situations and to prevent early issues from becoming a crisis. Trained family consultants offer in-home coaching and skill development to children and families by providing teaching and instruction on specific skills and competencies. Family assistance includes focusing on the childs behavior and improving parenting and family problem-solving skills, as