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Prize Contingency Management (Prize CM) is a behavioral reinforcement program designed to reduce substance use. Prize CM aims to increase a desired behavior, such as abstinence from drugs or alcohol, through immediate tangible motivational incentives known as prizes. Participants can earn prizes in either a group or individual setting by exhibiting a desired behavior, such as testing negative for substances on a urine test or attending a group therapy session. Each time a participant exhibits the desired behavior, they earn opportunities for prizes by drawing tickets from a prize bowl. Prize CM prizes typically range in size from small prizes worth about $1 (e.g., candles) to jumbo prizes worth about $100 (e.g., televisions). When a participant draws a prize ticket, they’re able to choose a prize of that size that appeals to them.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents (PE-A) with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a cognitive-behavioral approach to treating adolescents who are diagnosed with PTSD or who manifest trauma-related symptoms. PE-A is an adaptation of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD and is designed to highlight the developmentally appropriate concerns, strengths, and needs of adolescents. It includes increased family involvement and incorporates developmentally-appropriate treatment exercises. PE-A has four phases: (1) pre-treatment preparation; (2) psychoeducation and treatment planning; (3) exposures; and (4) relapse prevention and conclusion of treatment. Phases are designed to allow adolescents to go at their own pace. Adolescents complete developmentally-appropriate homework assignments between sessions. These homework assignments include “in vivo exposure” that require the adolescent to confront situations, people, or objects that they are avoiding due to trauma reminders. Homework assignments also include “imaginal exposure” where adolescents listen to audio recordings of their own retelling of their traumatic experience.
Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a cognitive-behavioral approach to treating adults who are diagnosed with PTSD or who manifest trauma-related symptoms. PE is designed to help trauma survivors emotionally process their traumatic experiences in order to diminish PTSD and other trauma-related symptoms.
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) is designed for clients with overcontrol disorders such as refractory depression, anorexia nervosa, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. The goal of RO DBT is for participants to overcome their rigid beliefs, strong rule-governed behavior, and high moral certitude by developing a radically open mindset. A team of RO DBT providers, including therapists and skills trainers, aims to help participants decrease social isolation and “build a life worth sharing” by developing three capacities: openness, flexibility, and social connectedness.
Relief Nursery is designed for families with children ages 0–5 that may have risk factors for child abuse and neglect. The program aims to build successful and resilient children, strengthen parenting skills, and preserve families. Relief Nursery provides an array of customized direct services to families. Through its various services, Relief Nursery seeks to help families expand child development knowledge, increase parent-child attachment, broaden social supports, foster healthy coping strategies, and access basic needs and resources. Families select one or more of the following Relief Nursery services: outreach (home visiting and respite care), parenting education, mental health and counseling, substance use disorder recovery support, and therapeutic early childhood education. Relief Nursery staff members may be involved in more than one service and typically include home visitors, parenting educators, mental health professionals, child and family therapists, classroom teachers, early special education experts, and supervisors.
Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK™) aims to assess and address psychosocial problems to strengthen families, support parents, and promote children’s healthy development in their first 5 years. Parents complete a brief Parent Questionnaire before selected well-child visits. The questionnaire is used to identify parenting and family risk factors for child maltreatment such as depression, substance use, parental stress, intimate partner violence, food insecurity, and harsh punishment. SEEK is delivered by primary care professionals (PCPs) who use motivational interviewing techniques to engage parents as partners. Then, PCPs and parents develop a plan utilizing the families’ strengths to address identified risk factors and barriers to engagement. At the end of the well-child visit, parents receive handouts for each identified risk factor. The handouts provide basic information and resources in a user-friendly way to reinforce what was covered during the visit. PCPs then refer consenting families to community resources, as needed, often with the help of clinical social workers and mental health professionals.
SafeCare is an in-home behavioral parenting program that promotes positive parent-child interactions, informed caregiver response to childhood illness and injury, and a safe home environment. SafeCare is designed for parents and caregivers of children birth through five who are either at-risk for or have a history of child neglect and/or physical abuse. The program aims to reduce child maltreatment. The SafeCare curriculum is delivered by trained and certified providers.
SafeCare Augmented is an in-home behavioral parenting program that aims to promote positive parent-child interactions, informed caregiver response to childhood illness and injury, and a safe home environment. It is designed for parents and caregivers of children age 5 and younger who are either at-risk for or who have a history of child neglect or physical abuse. The program aims to reduce child maltreatment and to support clinical care by adding training for SafeCare providers.
Seeking Safety is a coping skills intervention to help adults or adolescents attain safety from trauma and/or addiction. The intervention can be delivered individually or in groups. Seeking Safety offers up to 25 treatment topics that address cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, and case management domains. The model is highly flexible and can be delivered by peers as well as professionals. Providers can choose how many topics to cover with clients and for how long. It can also be delivered in any setting and level of care. Seeking Safety offers various training and certification opportunities to providers, but formal training is not required (except for research studies).
Solution Based Casework (SBC) is a partnership-based practice model of assessment, case planning, and casework for families with children who are 17 years or younger who have been (or are at-risk for being) referred to child welfare services. Caseworkers and families work together to identify developmental challenges that inhibit management of everyday activities (e.g., supervising and teaching children, creating a safe home environment) as well as other individual issues (e.g. anger, substance use) that make it difficult for the family to manage everyday challenges in child rearing. The family, provider, and caseworker then create individualized specific Plans of Action to address the family’s and individual caretaker’s concerns. SBC is typically delivered in homes, community centers, schools, hospitals/clinics, or other care facilities. SBC does not specify frequency or duration requirements, and providers have the flexibility to vary program dosage based on the needs of individual families. There is a standard two and a half day SBC training for caseworkers, staff and supervisors.