Intensive In-Home Services

Intensive in-home services are a time-limited, focused family preservation intervention for identified youth through the age of 20 intended to stabilize the living arrangement, promote reunification, or prevent the use of out-of-home therapeutic resources (i.e., psychiatric hospital, therapeutic foster care, residential treatment facility.) These services are delivered primarily to children in their family’s home, with the following goals aimed at restoring the family’s inherent social strengths:

1. Defuse the current crisis, evaluate its nature, and intervene to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence;
2. Ensure linkage to needed community services and resource;
3. Provide self-help and living skills training for youth and family
4. Provide parenting skills training to help the family build skills for coping with the youth’s disorder
5. Monitor and manage the presenting psychiatric and/or addiction symptoms and
6. Work with caregivers in the implementation of home-based behavioral supports.