Non-Intensive Family Preservation Services

Non-Intensive Family Preservation Services

Policies and Procedures

A. Key Design Elements

- Services are targeted to families with children at risk for current or future role dysfunction in home or community, due to a variety of socio-cultural, physical, psychological, and academic factors;

- Services are time limited - provided for a maximum of six months; Services are home-based - at least one-half of a caseworker's time spent providing family preservation services to a family is spent in face to face contact in the family's home and
community;

- Services focus on promoting family competence and stability - building on strengths and the family's own resources;

- Services are provided in a culturally competent manner with understanding of and respect for cultural and ethnic diversity;

- The services provided are both therapeutic and concrete;

- All Family Preservation Services clients have access to crisis/emergency services 24 hours a day, seven days a week;

- Caseloads range from two to eight families at a time, based on the intensity and duration of services and the severity of the problems, as recommended by caseworker and approved by supervisor;

- Family preservation caseworkers have specialized training and support to provide this service.