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Families and Schools Together® (FAST®) – High School Level is a prevention and early intervention parent engagement program designed to serve families with youth in high school. FAST – High School Level aims to strengthen parent-youth and family relationships, promote youth leadership and school success, and build supportive connections between parents, schools, and communities.
Families and Schools Together® (FAST®) – Middle School Level is a prevention and early intervention parent engagement program designed to serve families with youth in middle school. FAST – Middle School Level aims to strengthen parent-youth and family relationships, promote youth’s social and emotional development and school success, and build supportive connections between parents, schools, and communities.
Families Facing the Future (FFF) (formerly known as Focus on Families) is an intensive program for parents in methadone treatment who have children or young adolescents. FFF teaches parenting and relapse prevention skills to parents and aims to protect their at-risk children from adverse outcomes, including drug use. Case managers work collaboratively with families to identify positive activities, connect them with available services, and identify ways to reinforce use of new skills. Typically, families attend a five-hour group retreat at the beginning of the FFF program. Then, parent(s) attend 90-minute group sessions twice a week for 16 weeks in an outpatient clinic. Children participate in 12 of these sessions. Families also receive approximately two hours of in-home case management per week. This program is delivered by case managers who have a master’s, background in chemical dependency and parenting, and attended a three-day training.
Families First (Utah Youth Village Model) is designed to help families with youth birth to age 17 build on family strengths and improve family functioning. Families First specialists help strengthen parents’ confidence in their parenting and communication skills using positive reinforcement, modeling, and role-playing. Specialists teach parents how to maintain discipline without anger or violence and how to promote positive social skills, effective communication, and healthy boundaries. Specialists link families to community resources. The program has six phases. During Phase 1, the specialist meets with the family to build rapport, identify family strengths and goals, and create a treatment plan targeting specific skills that will help the family attain their goals. During Phases 2–5, the specialist teaches the targeted skills, provides opportunities to practice and refine those skills, and helps families generalize these skills to new situations. During Phase 6, the specialist helps the family transition to using these skills independently and formalize future plans.
Family Behavior Therapy - Adolescent (Adolescent FBT) is a therapeutic treatment intended to accomplish goal performance within the family context. It is designed to treat adolescents with substance abuse and dependence, and associated problems such as conflict, depression, child maltreatment, trauma, noncompliance, or risky sexual behavior. In Adolescent FBT, clients and their parents/guardians complete assessment measures that allow therapists to understand the family and create an intervention plan. Following these assessments, clients are offered 12 to 15 sessions over a four to six month period, with varied numbers of sessions per week based on client needs. Adolescent FBT typically includes an orientation to introduce FBT, a contingency management system (i.e., creating contracts with goals that may be contingently rewarded by parents/guardians), and treatment planning to determine appropriate interventions based on identified needs. These interventions could include support for establishing goal/reward systems, controlling environmental stimuli, improving self-control, strengthening family relationships, and facilitating communication.
Family Behavior Therapy - Adult (Adult FBT) is a therapeutic treatment intended to accomplish goal performance within the family context. It is designed to treat adults with substance abuse and dependence, as well as associated problems such as conflict, depression, child maltreatment or unemployment. In Adult FBT, clients and their significant others complete assessment measures that allow therapists to understand the family and create an intervention plan. Following these assessments, clients are offered 12 to 16 sessions (typically lasting 60 to 90 minutes) over a four to six month period. When appropriate, clients’ significant others may also participate in these sessions. Adult FBT typically includes an orientation to introduce FBT, a contingency management system (i.e., creating contracts with goals that may be contingently rewarded by adult relatives/significant others), and treatment planning to determine the desired interventions. Based on identified needs, different interventions may be implemented.
Family Behavior Therapy – Adult with Child Welfare Supplement (Adult FBT-CWS) is a therapeutic treatment intended to accomplish goal performance within the family context. It is designed to treat adults with substance abuse and dependence and who are involved with the child welfare system. In Adult FBT-CWS, clients and their significant others complete assessment measures that allow therapists to understand the family and create an intervention plan. Following these assessments, clients are offered 20 sessions (typically lasting 75 minutes) over a six month period. When appropriate, clients’ significant others may also participate in these sessions. Similar to the standard Adult FBT program, Adult FBT-CWS typically includes an orientation to introduce FBT, a contingency management system (i.e., creating contracts with goals that may be contingently rewarded by adult relatives/significant others), and treatment planning to determine the desired interventions. Based on identified needs, different interventions may be implemented.
Family Centered Treatment® (FCT) is a home-based trauma treatment. FCT is designed for families who are at-risk of dissolution or in need of reunification. It is also designed to serve youth who move between the child welfare, behavioral health, and juvenile justice systems. During treatment, FCT practitioners aim to help families identify their core emotional issues, identify functions of behaviors in a family systems context, change the emotional tone and behavioral interaction patterns among family members, and develop secure relationships by strengthening attachment bonds.
Family Foundations (FF) is a parenting education program designed for couples expecting their first child. FF aims to help couples develop a team approach to caregiving, maintain family bonds, reduce stress, and promote adult and child well-being. In FF, couples are defined as any two individuals who plan to care for the child together and can include the parent and another individual such as a grandparent or new romantic partner. Couples participate in FF together and typically begin FF classes during pregnancy.
Family Spirit® is a culturally-tailored home visiting program designed for young American Indian mothers (ages 14-24) who enroll during the second trimester of pregnancy. The goal of Family Spirit® is to address intergenerational behavioral health problems and promote positive behavioral and emotional outcomes among mothers and children. The program uses a culturally informed, strengths-based approach for helping mothers develop positive parenting practices, strengthen their coping skills, and learn how to avoid coercive parenting behaviors and substance abuse. Community health paraprofessional home visitors deliver program lessons to participating mothers through six modules: (1) Prenatal Care, (2) Infant Care, (3) Your Growing Child, (4) Toddler Care, (5) My Family and Me, and (6) Healthy Living. The program encourages other family members to participate in the lessons alongside mothers. Home visitors also provide case management and help families access services, as needed.