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Fatherhood Is Sacred®/Motherhood Is Sacred® (FIS/MIS) is a parenting education program designed to strengthen Native American families. FIS/MIS aims to help fathers and mothers actively engage with their families while also connecting with their Native American heritage and the sacred responsibilities of being a parent. Parents who are not Native American are also welcome to participate, as are youth. An adaptation, FIS/MIS for Youth, follows the same overall structure and format, but examples and content focus on preparing youth to take on the role of a father or mother in the future or with their younger relatives or neighbors.
FF@Home (FFHV) is a home-visiting adaptation of the Family Foundations (FF) parenting education program designed for low-income couples expecting their first child. FFHV aims to help couples develop a team approach to caregiving, maintain family bonds, reduce stress, and promote adult and child well-being. In FFHV, 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 FFHV together and typically begin FFHV classes during pregnancy.
Foster Kinship Navigator Program is designed to serve kinship caregivers, both relatives and non-relative kin who are raising children in nonparental care. Foster Kinship Navigator Program aims to strengthen kinship caregivers’ capacity to provide safe, stable, nurturing homes for children who cannot live with their parents. The program’s targeted support focuses on reducing uncertainty for new caregivers and enabling them to understand and access available resources. Program services focus on four service areas: (1) legal capacity, (2) financial sustainability, (3) parenting and child community connection, and (4) caregiver emotional support.
Fostering Healthy Futures® for Teens (FHF-T) is a skills training and mentoring program. FHF-T is designed for eighth and ninth graders with current or prior child welfare involvement due to maltreatment and one or more adverse childhood experiences.
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a short term prevention program for at-risk youth and their families. FFT aims to address risk and protective factors that impact the adaptive development of 11 to 18 year old youth who have been referred for behavioral or emotional problems. The program is organized in multiple phases and focuses on developing a positive relationship between therapist/program and family, increasing motivation for change, identifying specific needs of the family, supporting individual skill-building of youth and family, and generalizing changes to a broader context. Typically, therapists will meet weekly with families face-to-face for 60 to 90 minutes and by phone for up to 30 minutes, over an average of three to six months. They work as a part of a FFT-supervised unit and receive ongoing support from their local unit and FFT training organization.
Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) is an adaptation of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) designed to serve families with children age 18 or younger referred to child welfare services. FFT-CW aims to improve child and family outcomes and keep families together by offering a continuum of services tailored to individual family needs. Families receive one of two levels of services based on a preliminary risk assessment at program intake. Families can move between levels of services if later assessments indicate that risk factors have changed. An agency can choose to implement only one track based on the needs of the population they plan to serve.
Functional Family Therapy – Therapeutic Case Management (FFT-TCM) is an adaptation of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) designed to serve at-risk families with children age 18 or younger involved in the child welfare, behavioral and physical health, academic, or juvenile justice systems. FFT-TCM uses a therapeutic case management approach with the aim of helping families engage in treatment, develop skills and access resources needed to stabilize and work through family issues, and manage future challenges.
Functional Family Probation and Parole (FFP®) is an adaptation of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) designed to provide comprehensive case management for families with children age 18 and younger involved in the juvenile justice system and on supervision in the community (i.e., on probation or parole). FFP aims to enhance motivation for change, strengthen family functioning, and reduce recidivism and out-of-home placements.
The Gathering of Native Americans/Gathering of Alaska Natives (GONA/GOAN) program is a 3-day community event that aims to promote wellness and address community-identified issues. The GONA/GOAN is designed for the whole community including youth, elders, tribal leaders, and spiritual leaders, but a GONA/GOAN can be focused on youth. Native practitioners developed the GONA/GOAN curriculum to empower Native communities, promote mental health, and facilitate healing in response to historical trauma, mental and substance use disorders, and suicide. The GONA/GOAN also seeks to reinforce cultural connections and support healthy and safe child development. In preparation for the GONA/GOAN, a GONA/GOAN consultant establishes a planning committee with diverse members of the community at least 2 months before the event. The community-led planning process ensures that the event is representative of the community’s unique cultural traditions, spiritual practices, perspective, issues, and needs.
GenerationPMTO – Group, also known as Parenting through Change (PTC) and formerly known as Parent Management Training – Oregon Model (PMTO®), is a group-based parenting and family functioning intervention. The intervention is designed to increase parenting skills and promote effective family management.