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The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey (CHSofNJ) Kinship Navigator Model is designed to support kinship caregivers – relatives caring for children when their biological parents are unable to provide appropriate care. The program’s long-term goals for children include safety, permanency and stability, and healthy development. For kinship caregivers, the long-term goals of the program are to empower caregivers to advocate for themselves and their children and to increase their use of protective factors. This program supports kinship caregivers and children by pairing them with an Ombudsman. This Ombudsman serves as a professional advocate and is responsible for assessing family needs, developing family plans based on the family’s needs, offering follow-up visits, providing hands-on linkages to resources, and offering encouragement. Ombudsmen typically work with kinship caregivers for four to six month windows, through home or office visits. The CHSofNJ Kinship Navigator Model also offers group support sessions to kinship caregivers, which focus on topics such as parenting skills.
Circle of Security – Intensive™ (COS-Intensive™) is a caregiver training and psychoeducation intervention that aims to improve caregiver-child relationships and enhance secure attachment. It is delivered by certified therapists and features individualized recordings of participating caregivers to demonstrate content related to the caregiver-child relationship. COS-Intensive uses a visual map of attachment referred to as the “circle of security.” This map emphasizes the caregiver’s role in providing a secure base from which their child can explore the world and a safe haven where their child can return for comfort.
Circle of Security – Parenting™ (COSP™) is a caregiver training and psychoeducation intervention that aims to improve caregiver-child relationships and enhance secure attachment. Modified from Circle of Security – Intensive™ (COS-Intensive™), COSP reduces the time and resources needed to implement the program. It uses stock footage to demonstrate content and does not require facilitators to be licensed therapists. COSP uses a visual map of attachment referred to as the “circle of security.” This map emphasizes the caregiver's role in providing a secure base from which their child can explore the world and a safe haven where their child can return for comfort.
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) is a school-based intervention designed to help children who have experienced traumatic life events. CBITS uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to reduce symptoms related to trauma exposure, build skills for handling stress and anxiety, and build peer and caregiver support.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a cognitive-behavioral treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). CPT aims to help clients identify and address ways of thinking about traumatic experiences that might interfere with their recovery.
Common Sense Parenting® (CSP) – School Age is a group-based parent training class designed for parents of children ages 6–16. The program aims to teach positive parenting techniques to strengthen the parent-child bond, and behavior management strategies to help increase positive child behaviors, decrease child problem behaviors, and model appropriate options to address child behaviors. Trainers deliver CSP – School Age in six structured sessions that teach parents about: (1) appropriate child discipline strategies, (2) effective praise, (3) social skills, (4) appropriate responses to and alternative options to address problem behavior, (5) strategies to manage strong emotions and remain calm, and (6) how to develop parenting styles that will improve parent-child relationships. In each session, trainers review the prior session, and instruct parents in new skills, model strategies, provide feedback on skill practice, and summarize the lesson. Between sessions, parents complete homework and practice activities.
Common Sense Parenting® (CSP) of Toddlers and Preschoolers is a group-based parent training class designed for parents of children ages 2–5. CSP of Toddlers and Preschoolers is an age-based adaptation of Common Sense Parenting® – School Age that aims to teach positive parenting techniques to strengthen the parent-child bond, and behavior management strategies to help increase positive child behaviors, decrease child problem behaviors, and model appropriate options to address child behaviors.
Community Reinforcement Approach + Vouchers (CRA + Vouchers) is designed to treat adults with cocaine use issues through therapy, skills training, and incentives for drug abstinence and treatment retention. CRA + Vouchers has two main components: (1) the CRA component is an intensive psychosocial therapy intended to help patients make lifestyle changes and develop drug-refusal skills and strategies; and, (2) the voucher component provides incentives for remaining in treatment and sustaining cocaine abstinence. In the CRA component, treatment goals are co-developed by the therapist and patient based on patient needs and priorities. Patients can receive therapy and skills training in goal setting, drug avoidance and refusal, time management, problem-solving, vocational counseling, social skills and relationships, relaxation, sleep hygiene, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy® (DBT) is a cognitive-behavioral treatment designed for adults and teens with difficulty regulating their emotions. DBT aims to help participants “build a life worth living” by developing the skills needed to change patterns in their behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and interpersonal relationships. DBT’s approach is grounded in the idea that two seemingly opposing facts can both be true, most notably that the goals of therapy include both acceptance and change. A team of DBT providers, including therapists and skills trainers, strives to help participants both accept themselves and make changes in their behavior.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) is an adaptation of DBT® designed for adolescents ages 13–18 with difficulty regulating their emotions. DBT-A aims to help adolescents “build a life worth living” by developing the skills needed to change patterns in their behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and interpersonal relationships. DBT-A’s approach is grounded in the idea that two seemingly opposing facts can both be true, most notably that the goals of therapy include both acceptance and change. A team of DBT-A providers, including therapists and skills trainers, strives to help adolescents both accept themselves and make changes in their behavior.