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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.
The Strengthening Families Program – 12-16 (SFP 12-16) is a parent and family skills training program designed to serve families with teens ages 12–16. The program is designed to serve the general population and at-risk families, including families experiencing parental substance use issues, teen substance use, and teen behavioral problems. SFP 12-16 aims to help parents increase their teen’s protective factors, such as coping skills; reduce their teen’s risk factors, such as behavioral problems; and communicate with their teens about peer pressure, sex, and relationships.
The Strengthening Families Program – 3-5 (SFP 3-5) is a parent and family skills training program designed to serve families with children ages 3–5. The program is designed to serve the general population and at-risk families, including families experiencing parental substance use issues and child behavioral problems. SFP 3-5 aims to help parents increase their children’s protective factors, such as coping skills, and reduce their children’s risk factors, such as behavioral problems.
The Strengthening Families Program – 6-11 (SFP 6-11) is a parent and family skills training program designed to serve families with children ages 6–11. The program is designed to serve the general population and at-risk families, including families experiencing parental substance use issues and child behavioral problems. SFP 6-11 aims to help parents increase their children’s protective factors, such as coping skills, and reduce their children’s risk factors, such as behavioral problems.
The Strengthening Families Program – Birth to Three (SFP B-3) is a parent and family skills training program designed to serve families with children birth through age three. The program is designed to serve the general population and at-risk families, including families experiencing parental substance use issues and child behavioral problems. SFP B-3 aims to help parents increase their children’s protective factors, such as coping skills, and reduce their children’s risk factors, such as behavioral problems. SFP B-3 consists of multi-family group sessions. Before each session, families and trained group leaders have a sit-down meal together where group leaders provide support, guidance, and praise and get to know families on a more personal level. During the first half of each session, group leaders teach parents about child development and skills to promote positive child behavior. Skills taught include how to use rewards, set limits, communicate, and problem solve. Childcare is provided separately.
The Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14) is a family skills training program designed to serve families with youth ages 10–14. SFP 10-14 aims to help parents increase their youth’s protective factors, such as pro-social peer relationships, and reduce their youth’s risk factors for behavioral, social, substance use, and academic problems. SFP 10-14 consists of multi-family group sessions. Each session contains three components: parent sessions, youth sessions, and family sessions. During the first half of each session, parents and youth meet separately for parent sessions and youth sessions. During the second half of each session, parents and youth meet together for family sessions. Throughout all sessions, group facilitators use narrated videos of common youth-parent scenarios to help deliver the program.
Strong African American Families (SAAF) is a 7-session, group-based parenting program designed for families with youth ages 10–14. SAAF aims to build on the strengths of African American families to prevent substance use and other risky behaviors. The program focuses on strengthening parental monitoring and involvement, improving communication about sex and substance use, and providing positive racial socialization. SAAF promotes youth goal-setting and attainment, resistance of risky behaviors, and acceptance of parental influences. Each 2-hour session has two parts. In the first hour, youth and caregivers meet in separate groups for activities, discussion, and skill-building. In the second hour, youth and caregivers come back together for activities with their family and the larger group.
Strong Foundations is an adaptation of the Family Foundations (FF) parenting education program designed for pregnant and parenting teens in high schools. Strong Foundations aims to help teens develop a team approach to caregiving, maintain family bonds, reduce stress, and promote adult and child well-being. In Strong Foundations, teens focus on building a parenting team consisting of one, two, or more people who can support them and the child. Teens participate in Strong Foundations individually and typically begin Strong Foundations classes during pregnancy.
The Substance Abuse and Men’s Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (SA-M-TREM) is an adaptation of Men’s Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (M-TREM) designed for men who have survived trauma and have substance use problems. The program aims to help men make connections between abuse histories and current functioning and develop skills for recovery. SA-M-TREM is a group intervention that uses strategies such as education about mental health issues, cognitive restructuring, skills training, and peer support.