Family Support Systems’ Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home (TFBH) is a specialized program in which children with special physical, psychological or emotional needs are unable to live with their natural family for any of a variety of reasons, and are placed with specially trained foster parents, while a plan is made to provide for the child’s long-term care.
Services Offered
- Aftercare
- Community-based Treatment
- Mental Health Counseling & Referrals
- Family Counseling
- On-site and Community Independent Living Skills
Our Mission
Our Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home Program's mission is to provide a continuum of family-based services to children and adolescents with special needs. A primary goal of the program is to ensure that our children with special needs are returned to a permanent, stable home or facility, where their unique mental, physical or emotional needs may be proficiently met.
Our program consists of a coordinated provision of services designed to serve both children and their families in a specially trained foster home setting with clearly stated, measurable goals, a set of written procedures for achieving them, and a process for assessing the results.
Challenges
- Autism
- Behavioral or emotional problems
- Cerebral palsy
- Developmental disabilities
- Drug exposure as infants
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- HIV / AIDS
- Learning disabilities
- Mental retardation
- Victims of chronic abuse
- Vision & hearing impairments
Program Benefits
- Prevents institutionalization.
- Shortens hospital stays.
- Achieves the maximum amount of normalization in a child’s life.
- Allows for fuller community participation and regular school attendance.
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