Youth & Family Services

Therapeutic Mentoring

This service offers structured, strength-based support services between a therapeutic mentor and a youth (up to the age of 18) for the purpose of addressing communication, daily living and social needs. Services are provided in any setting where the youth resides, such as the home (including foster homes and therapeutic foster homes) and in community settings such as schools, childcare centers, respite settings as well as other culturally and linguistically appropriate community settings.

Parental Enhancement / Parent Aid

Therapeutic parent enrichment is designed to provide parents with the knowledge and tools needed to achieve their individual parent goals. The objective of parent coaching is to deal with the here and now, and to educate. The service focuses on assisting parents in better understanding their children's behaviors while creating a positive, healthy environment and minimizing problematic behaviors. Our service is tailored to fit the specific needs of each family. Our overall goal with this service is to increase parental bond, maintain safety and security and to improve continuity of care between the households.

Truancy Prevention

The goal of this service is designed to reduce unexcused absences, which will encourage completion in school and furthering education. The service includes home visitation, supportive one on one mentoring, referral, advocacy, parental involvement, and case management to assist youth in reaching their full potential academically. The final goal of this program is for the youth to complete school or a GED program.

Gang Prevention/Intervention

The goal of this service is designed to integrate skills for at-risk youth who are high-risk candidates for gang recruitment and post involvement. The program, in contrast to others, is introduced in a way that it challenges the perspectives of the youth so he or she can grasp a consequential view of their behavior.

Emotional Stability Training

The goal of this service is to introduce skills in healthy communicating, effective listening strategies, conflict resolution, stress management, judgment and impulse control, anger management, empathy and emotional awareness, expectation management, forgiveness and much more.

Casey Life Skills

Through this service, we offer youth and young adults the opportunity to learn about the world in a realistic yet supportive environment. We provide the role modeling, life-skills training and assistance that helps young people become connected, competent and contributing adults.

Therapeutic Fitness

Therapeutic Fitness provides individualized activity plans with one-on-one and group mentoring for Youth/Adolescents/Teen (K-12) who have been identified to have factors that would place the individual at risk or who are currently in custody of Child Protective Services or juvenile probation. This service is designed to encourage youth to participate in proper exercise and nutrition in order to improve mood and behavior. Also, we serve individuals that have been identified due to mental health or substance abuse issues, which may include but are not limited to symptoms of anxiety, stress, isolation, low energy, depression, low-self-esteem, anger, body image, etc.

Tutoring and Academic Performance

This program is focused on providing specific tutoring needs to create a stronger level of comprehension of academic subjects while driving positive academic performance. Utilizing trained tutors, we strive to change academic results through a strong educational approach that also addresses the students’ perspectives.

Recovery Coaching

The recovery coach service is an intensive, community-based case management program for people who have entered an addiction treatment program or have been screened for treatment but have been placed on a waiting list. The service is designed as an integrated component of a comprehensive addiction treatment program. The primary purpose of the recovery coach service is to help individuals in addiction treatment gain access to needed resources, services or supports that will help them achieve recovery from their substance use disorder while being held accountable.

ACT (Aftercare Treatment)

This no-cost service is provided in connection with any services that we've provided and is designed for the post-service time interval, for it is during this crucial period that strides made during services are reinforced. Aftercare treatment helps to reduce relapse in behaviors and expands upon the coping strategies learned during services. Aftercare entails far less frequent contact with the service provider personnel than during the duration of services; therefore, it approximates a more real-life situation of self-sufficiency, individual determination and hard work in maintaining one's own self-efficacy. So we, the service provider, are in contact 30 to 60 days after services have expired to monitor and detect any impending or recent regressions. During aftercare, follow-up documentation will also be provided to the appropriate sources to determine if a re-evaluation is necessary.

Grief & Loss Support

The goal of this service is to provide youth and/or families with healthy ways and coping mechanisms when dealing with grief and loss. Grief manifests itself in various ways, and everyone expresses grief differently. We work with grieving individuals in a variety of settings (e.g. the death of a loved one during their formative years, developing academic identity, the transition of a parent out of the home, learning to resolve conflict, engaging in first romantic relationships, the loss of a sibling, crisis, etc). Additional goals for this service include identifying ways to support the youth, sharing healthy methods that will allow them to cope and express their emotions effectively, acting as a support system for the youth, and developing an intervention plan that will aid the youth in overcoming the circumstances.

Family First Prevention Services

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a “well-supported” program supported by the Family First Act and Title IV-E funding. This evidence-based practice that we use is designed to promote behavior change in youth and adults to improve physiological, psychological and lifestyle results. MI aims to identify uncertainties for change and increase motivation by helping clients progress through multiple stages of change. It aims to do this by encouraging clients to consider their personal goals and how their current behaviors may compete with the attainment of those goals. MI uses clinical strategies to help clients identify reasons to change their behavior and reinforce that behavior change is possible.