Intensive Foster Care
The Children's Study Home has two Intensive Foster Care Programs that recognize the gap in services for adolescents. CSH Intensive Foster Care homes provide stable living environments for youths 12 to 18 years of age. The goal of the programs is to provide individualized supports in a family environment that prepares adolescents for returning to their families, less-intensive foster care placements, or independent living. Intensive Foster Care homes provide sustained interventions including higher levels of structure and supervision, advocacy, and comprehensive wraparound services. Youths receive intensive case management and a multidisciplinary service team for coordinating their care. This team approach supports foster parents to address the needs of the adolescent. Foster parents provide 24-hour care and direct supervision as well as implementation of the adolescent's treatment plan.
At the core of the Intensive Foster Care Programs is a network of carefully selected foster parents who, after a period of specialized training and with continuous support from program staff, open their homes and families to youth in need of the treatment and care they have been prepared to provide. Foster parents provide 24-hour care and direct supervision as well as implementation of the adolescent's treatment plan. Foster parents are a professional member of the child's provider team and receive ongoing support for sustaining their important work in the child's life.
Family Residence Foster Care is an intensive foster care model designed as a group-like model in a family setting. Family Residence Foster Care homes have 4 to 6 adolescents in each home. Each home requires two foster parents, one of whom is an employee of The Children's Study Home and receives a salary (with benefits) and a daily reimbursement for each child. Due to the intensity of the program and the number of youths in each home, Family Residence Foster Care providers additionally receive a transportation allowance, funds for recreation/activities, and respite supports.
Intensive Foster Care is an intensive foster model with a maximum of two foster youths in a foster home. The youths served and the requirements for foster parents are similar to the Family Residence Foster Care Program. The program provides team-based, wraparound services including intensive case management, advocacy, and a broad continuum of comprehensive supports. Intensive Foster Care parents receive a daily reimbursement rate, intensive case management supports, and 24-hour access to case managers.