In the Home, School, and Community
Community Based Family Services provides a broad
continuum of service options for clients in the home, school, and
community. Service is focused on a structural / strategic family
therapy approach that has evolved from various scholars within the
counseling field.
Goals of Community Based Family Services
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Empower families and youth to manage change,
conflict, and crisis which ultimately results in family
stabilization and reduces the need for out of home placement back
into the family, school, and community.
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Facilitate the family reunification process to
enhance the successful transition of clients returning from out of
home placement back into the family, school, and community.
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Connect families and youth with community support
services to promote independence and growth.
Levels of Services
Community Based Family Services provides
Family First, Outpatient Substance Abuse, Enhanced Outpatient Substance Abuse, and Multidimensional Family Therapy all designed to strengthen families.
Family First may be provided in coordination with the
Pathway to Recovery, as
well as with the Guided Path
Weekend Supervision Program.
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Family First
Family First provides individual and family counseling sessions to both the Westmoreland and Fayette communities that focus on assessment, productive family dynamics, youth behavior, effective parenting, and overall family stability.
The Range of Services Available Through Family Support Includes:
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Individual / Family Counseling
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Collaboration with the school system
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Parenting Education / Support
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Anger Management
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Assessment of Basic Strength and Needs
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Live Skills and Independent Living
Skills
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The Facts of Life: Principled
Reasoning
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Outpatient Substance Abuse
Outpatient Substance Abuse provides individual, family, and adolescent group sessions for the Westmoreland community. We employ the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), a stages-of-change approach which, in combination with Motivational Interviewing, is based on the empirical research of Prochaska and DiClemente.
Enhanced Outpatient Substance Abuse
Enhanced Outpatient Substance Abuse is available to the Fayette community and seeks to provide substance abuse treatment, empowering families and youth to pursue recovery; provide stabilization, support, psycho-education, and skill building for youth and families in crisis, transition or at-risk; connect youth and families with potentially beneficial community resources; and reduce the need for out-of-home placement.
Multidimensional Family Therapy
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) is a distinct service option that brings an Evidence-Based Practice response to diverse and changing clients needs in the Westmoreland community. MDFT was developed by Howard Liddle at the University of Miami and is built on the concept that adolescent substance abuse and delinquency are multi-dimensional problems requiring multi-systemic approaches and interventions to adequately and effectively address these issues. MDFT seeks to significantly reduce or eliminate the adolescent’s substance abuse and other problem behaviors, and to improve overall functioning of the child within the family.
Learn More
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Experiential Education, Inc.
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