Best Practice : Teaching : Family Model

The Family Resource Center is funded from a grant through the Mississippi Department of Human Services and a state Economic Assistance Program. Other sponsors include United Way of Northeast Mississippi, Department of Public Safety, National Children’s Alliance, CREATE, ICC, The Stubbs Foundation, Lee County

The treatment facility offers many different services for families and the clients. Typically the inpatient treatment is a 90 day facility. They have family programming where the families get to come in from 8 am- 1 pm and spend time with the family member in inpatient treatment. Also after the first two weeks in the facility the clients can have sunday visitation hours from family or friends. The program also offers individual sessions with parents or probation officers and the clients to give them a good environment to discuss progress or other things that may be bothering them.

Experiential family theory is about the experiences that a family goes through in therapy and what it symbolizes to them. Experiential family theory is also well known as symbolic experiential family theory because the theory is about what the family takes out of the experience and what they use to describe their family. According to Smith (1998), the founder, Carl Whitaker, felt that it was the therapist’s responsibility to create these experiences in the sessions to help the family grow. Carl Whitaker accomplished this with impulse and creativity. He understood the family unit and knew that families could be cruel, but he believed the family had the ability to restore their family unit (Percy, 1990). The theory is not a traditional one,

Pennsylvania Mentor’s Lehigh Valley location provides Intensive Case Management (ICM) / Resource Coordination (RC) service, Family Based Mental Health Services and Certified Peer Support Services (CPS). Although these three programs are different, they all provide services to their clients in the home and in the community. ICM/RC’s help their clients with scheduling and following through with medical and mental health appointment, navigating social security and public welfare system, finding employment and utilizing community resources. Family Based Mental Health offers intensive mental health treatment to children who have a mental health diagnosis while providing services to their families. The CPS program help’s clients meet their recovery goals through the support of an individual who also has a mental health diagnosis.

Home Based Services. There are two home based programs SCCMH offers, the first being Children's Intensive Home Base Service. This is a service that provides in home care from SCCMH staff to children with severe emotional disturbances or emotional mental illnesses. The other is Infant Mental Health, a service for families who have concerns about their infant's social and emotional development. Both of these services take place in family's home.

Every child deserves individual attention, and facilities that work with troubled children should have the necessary elements and tools to help them make a favorable change. According to webpage mtsservices “It has been proven to work and produce positive results with the toughest kids. It blends the best clinical treatments—cognitive behavioral therapy, behavior management training, family therapies and community psychology to reach this population.” It is based on evidence that the Multisystemic therapy helps children to stay out of trouble and build better relations with themselves and their families. Also, mtsservices states “Intervention effectiveness is evaluated continuously from multiple perspectives with MST team members being held accountable for overcoming barriers to successful outcomes.” This means that they really pay close attention to their patients by evaluating their continuous effort and developmental accountability. The juvenile justice system should take in consideration of adding the Multisystemic therapy system into their facilities to start making appropriate adjustments.

The following list includes the types of treatment programs we use here at our facility. We will work closely with you and your child to select the one that best suits their needs.

The spectrum human services were found around the 1970’s and started as a 12-bed group home for boys that were mentally impaired in Detroit. The founders main goal is to inspire, support families and communities. They work to assist with human needs through focusing on prevention and improving the overall quality of life. Spectrum support family crisis, foster care and adoption, juvenile treatment short-term and long-term, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and workforce development. In the program, it is designed to address people with mental, physical, behavioral challenges. Today, spectrum has over 40 programs across the state of Michigan.

The program is being funded through the state government. There has been many past issues with the state’s budget, but they make sure they provide knowledgeable resources to provide for the youth so they can obtain the proper treatment.

Julian Lambert is a case manager for the newly open office of Eastern Carolina Human Services Agency, Inc. in New River shopping center. Although he is not a professional social worker, he is well aware of the needs of the population and the importance of providing and linking them with resources. He gave me useful information and his insightful perspective about the resources available and missing in the community, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the area.

Missouri Baptist Children’s Home was established on April 1, 1886, and has been serving children, youth, and families since that time. Through a restructuring of the corporation in 2001, MBCH Children and Family Ministries (MBCHCFM) was organized as the service delivery agency for Missouri Baptist Children’s Home for a total of 16 years in business as currently constituted. MBCHCFM is licensed by the State of Missouri as a child caring and as a child placing agency, and is accredited by the Council on Accreditation. Before the restructuring of the corporation as noted above, Missouri Baptist Children’s Home has been accredited since 1977. Long before accreditation was required for state contracts, our agency was committed to reaching the highest standard of care and made the decision to become accredited through COA.

In order to provide services to children and families involved with the child welfare system, FGDM’s need to come from a family centered and a strengths based approach. When families are given the opportunity to demonstrate their strengths and they are recognized, respected, affirmed they are more willing to make take initiative towards change and use those strengths as their foundation. Family focused services are focused in working with families in order to improve their level of functioning. The entire family needs to be addressed in order to provide a safe, stable, supportive, and a permanent environment for the child (Department of Social Services, n.d). When using the strength based approach with individuals seeking mental health services it has been found to increase self-esteem, self-efficacy, personal confidence, sense of hope and life satisfaction (Tse, et al., 2016).

CM conducted an f/f meeting at the Florence Klemmer Alternative Home program for Dre’quan Moore (youth). In attendance were Jasmine Alexander (CM), Lisney Vargas (CM), Jakina McCrea (Case Manager at program) and youth. Dre’quan was admitted to the program on Monday, 7/17/17; Ms. McCrea noted Dre’quan has been doing well at the program and has been very quiet. Dre’quan started school on Monday, 7/24/17 at the Garfield Park academy. CM and Dre’quan discussed the program, Dre’quan stated he likes the program. Dre’quan attends group and individual counseling weekly at the program. The 30-day treatment team meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 8/17/17 at 1:00pm.

The organization will provide an assortment of youth and family services in which patrons can access year round at minimal to no cost. The organizations’ governance has researched and recognized a need for child care and youth development programs within the underserved and impoverished communities of Tennessee. Basing its efforts within the South Memphis area, the organization will initially determine a facility to lease from an uninterested third party. The organization hopes to acquire a facility in which will effectively house its programming and community based services. Based on need, community members can explore the organizations’ programming. Intake will consist of a general information form and formal introduction of the patron to the organization as per its directorship. At no cost, individuals may determine eligibility and opportunities within the youth center, the help center- the organizations’ social service programming.

The purpose of this reflection paper is portray the knowledge that I have learned throughout this semester regarding the multisystem utilized to identify traits and behaviors associated with the assessments of family members. Marta Lundy’s article gave a brief history of theoretical integration as she describe a multi-systemic, multi-theoretical integrative model for social work practice, even though each reading assignment was associated with a movie or a book provided by the instructor and required all students to provide a written analysis.