THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE

Therapeutic foster care services is a collaboration between highly trained foster families and RiverValley who provide care to children living in Kentucky, New Mexico and Texas. The children served have emotional disabilities which are severe, complex, and persistent, often in combination with mental retardation. These children may be in crisis but can be stabilized safely in a therapeutic family setting.

Therapeutic foster care is family-based care in which the foster family is the primary treatment agent. Foster parents are trained and supported to implement key elements of treatment in the context of family and community life while supporting the goals of permanency planning. The role of the foster parents is central to the service delivery approach, but treatment planning is a team function carried out under the clinical direction of licensed professional staff. Treatment typically focuses on teaching the adaptive, pro-social skills and responses which equip young persons and their natural and foster families with the means to deal effectively with the unique conditions or individual circumstances which have created the need for treatment.

Program Goals

  • To end a pattern of multiple and often traumatic placements in a normalized family environment.
  • To prepare children for permanency with their own families, adoptive families, or independent living.
  • To develop better outcomes for children while reducing the overall expenses of treatment by providing the optimal care at the right time.

Services Offered

  • Individualized Treatment
  • Permanency Planning
  • Reunification
  • Case Management Support
  • Advocacy
  • Counseling and Clinical Support
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Monetary Reimbursement
  • Foster Parent Support
  
   

For more information on this and other RiverValley programs,
call 1-800-737-0696, or email info@rvbh.com

1100 WALNUT STREET, PO BOX 1637, OWENSBORO, KY 42302 | 1-800-737-0696