Home Builders Brochure 2009

Referrals Appropriate referrals to Home-based Services include: 

Families whose children have been removed

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Families who need services to remain intact

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Families in which the children are reunified and are in imminent risk of disruption without intensive reunification services Families in which the children are in imminent risk of placement without intensive preservation services

MISSION The mission of the Community and Family Resource Center

Intensive Family Preservation & Reunification, Home-based Casework and Therapy

is to provide programs, services, and resources to improve the quality of life of individuals, children and families.

About Intensive Family Preservation & Reunification Services

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CHINS 6 / Informal Adjustment

Intensive Family Preservation and Reunification

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Pre-adoption and post-adoption families at risk or in crisis

Services is based on an evidence-based program

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Juvenile Probation cases

that focuses on time-limited, intensive and homebased services designed to stabilize and strengthen families. Intensive services are family-focused, child-centered, goal-oriented, and provide in-home skill-building and after-care

www.cfrc.org For additional information or referral inquiries, contact: Abby Wright, Program Coordinator (765) 427-8863 Stacey Preyss, Director of Clinical Services (765) 412-6886

linkage. Intensive Services success in 2008 for Tippecanoe County was 90% for preservation, which preserved 96 children who were likely to be removed. This compared with traditional services successes range between 20% to 30%.

100 Saw Mill Road, Suite 3200

Phone 765-742-4848

Lafayette, Indiana 47905

Fax 765-477-9905

100 Saw Mill Road, Suite 3200

Phone 765-742-4848

Lafayette, Indiana 47905

Fax 765-477-9905

Home-based casework & Therapy Services

Intensive Preservation/ Intensive Reunification

Research shows Intensive Family Preservation services reduced out-of-home placements (93% success rate compared to 43% according to the Michigan Families First Effectiveness study after

Home-based Intensive Family Preservation

Home-based Casework can be pre and/or post

Service is a cognitive behavioral approach that

Intensive Services and include home visits, case

uses best practice strategies for families whose children are in imminent risk of placement.

planning, supervised visitation, crisis services, family reunification, assessment, parent training,

Home-based Intensive Reunification Service is a

and community services information . Home-based

short-term, intense, crisis intervention after

Therapy, facilitated by a Master’s level clinician,

children have been returned home and the family

provides goal-oriented therapy for families who need

demonstrates difficulties of such magnitude that

assistance recovering from physical, sexual,

without intensive services the reunification would be jeopardized. Intensive services last 28 days,

emotional abuse and neglect. Other issues, including substance abuse, mental illness, developmental

may be pre or post Home-based Casework and

disability, and current or past family dysfunction,

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Imminence of placement

Therapy Services, and include the following:

may be addressed as well. Families in Home-based

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24/7 intake and client availability

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Immediate response to referral

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Service in the natural environment

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Intensity and Brevity of services

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Single therapist with team back-up

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Organizational support (flextime and training)

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24/7 consultation availability

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Accountability (tracking outcomes)

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Flexibility and responsiveness of services

20 hours per week

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Interactive assessment and goal-setting

Closure NCFAS and goal assessment at end of

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Teaching/skills-based approach

Intensive services

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Concrete/advocacy services

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Within the context of practice reform

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Face to face contact within 24 hours of

Casework or Therapy receive the following services:

acceptance of the referral

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Face to face contact within 5 days of referral

Immediate response to crisis

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Immediate response to crisis

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Safety Plan created during first visitation

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Safety Plan created during first visitation

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NCFAS, Initial Assessment, and Service Plan completed within 7 days

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NCFAS, Initial Assessment, and Service Plan

Funding available for concrete services to each

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Monthly Progress Reports

family

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Funding available for concrete services to each

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Average face to face time with families is 10-

completed within 30 days

family

12 months post intervention) and Intensive Family Reunification services increased reunification rates of children with their families following out of home placement (92% returned home and remained in the home after 12 months post intervention compared to 28% with the control group according to a study by the University of Utah). Essential components include: