Treatment Foster Care/Adoption

NHS Human Services has 16 specialized treatment foster care programs providing a home like environment for children with behavioral and emotional problems who cannot live with their own families.  There are currently over 600 children receiving care from 300 families.  Each family has been recruited and trained specifically to be part of the treatment team for each child.  These families provide a warm, nurturing family environment while addressing the specific behavioral challenges presented by each child.

Therapeutic Family Care

This program is designed to provide a unique treatment environment for children between to the ages of 3 and 19.  The children in need of this level of care are typically referred by Children and Youth, Mental Health/Mental Retardation or Juvenile Probation agencies. The treatment foster families work collaboratively with the NHS treatment team of professionals to create treatment goals and interventions that are uniquely tailored to meet the child’s need and accentuate their strengths.

The overall goal of our Therapeutic Family Care program is to provide a pathway to permanency for each child referred into the program. Services include: individual and family therapy, monthly treatment meetings, case management, community supervision, integration of treatment goals within the school and ongoing behavioral healthcare to include medication management. The treatment foster families are supported 24hrs/day, 7 days per week. Support services include planned and unplanned respite, monthly support groups, quality pre-service and ongoing training, generous, tax-free stipend and mileage reimbursement to families.

Foster Care Plus

This program provides structure and supervision for children in need of foster care placement.  The foster families receive specialized training and are able to manage children in crisis, those in need of emergency shelter care and youth who are in transition from another treatment setting to include therapeutic family care or residential treatment facilities.

Multi-Dimensional Treatment Foster Care

(MTFC) is an evidence based "Blueprints for Violence Prevention" Program which provides an alternative to residential treatment facilities, custody and inpatient care. MTFC was originally developed at the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene, Oregon for youth in the juvenile justice system. It has since been found effective for youth with complex emotional and behavioral difficulties. MTFC is a short term, 6-9 month behavioral program that provides youth ages 12-17 with daily encouragement, contingent and neutral consequences, skills building and exposure to pro-social activities and peers within the community. Specially trained foster families deliver the program to young people living at home, while a clinical team works to support the families to deliver the program. The clinical team has a Child and Family Therapist who works with the youth and the biological/aftercare family to strengthen relationships, enhance parental competencies and assist with successful reunification.