Father Flanagans Boys Home

Programs: Family home services consist of family homes for youth with serious behavioral or emotional problems who live in a family style home and receive care from professionally trained married couples called family teachers. Six to eight boys or girls, usually ages 12-18, live in each home. The family teachers along with two full-time assistant family teachers are responsible for providing structured supervision for youth in their daily living and activities. This includes meeting the educational, medical, psychological, emotional, and behavioral needs of the youth in care. A major focus of this program is teaching youth social, independent-living, and educational skills, and helping them build healthy relationships with others. With a focus on reunification, the family teaching staff works with families to achieve permanency, safety, and child well-being. Like all services and programs in boys town new york, inc. S integrated continuum of care, treatment provided in family homes is based on the research-proven boys town model.

intervention and assessment services provides intervention during crisis situations and the assessment of youth needs. The goal of this short-term residential program is to stabilize youth behaviors so youth can safely return home or to their designated placement. Youth work on established treatment plans that address problem areas. Specially trained staff members conduct behavioral assessments and provide referral recommendations and linkages to needed services. Boys town new york, inc. Strives to provide safety and permanency through short-term services at three intervention and assessment centers located in brooklyn and queens.

boys town new york, inc. Values families and believes that children who can be safe at home belong at home. The main goal of in-home family services is to prevent children from being placed outside of the home and/or to reunify them with their family if outside placement is necessary. Like all other services and programs in boys town new york, inc. S integrated continuum of care, treatment provided through in-home family services is based on the research-proven boys town model. Boys town new york, inc. S in-home family services provide a family centered, skill-based intervention for families who are in or near crisis situation, and are at risk for having a child removed from the home. Treatment duration ranges from short-term to long-term, and service intensity ranges from highly intensive to less intensive, depending on a familys needs. Boys town family consultants are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and work with families in their homes to help caregivers build on their strengths, improve their parenting skills, and to identify community resources and supports.