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2641 Maryland
Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
Telephone: 410-235-2800
Fax: 410-235-0214
For further details and
information contact:
Telephone: 410-235-2800
Fax: 410-235-0214
Email:
mdops@ntuplc.org |
Purpose
- Therapeutic And Traditional
Foster Care
The NIA foster care
program provides comprehensive and intensive child placement
services, which include clinical and case management activities.
This program serves children from birth to twenty-years old. The
ultimate goal of the NIA program is to promote and achieve
permanency (reunification with parents and/or family members,
adoption or transition to independent living) for each of our
children and minimize their time in the foster care system, however,
as long as a child is in our care his or her safety and welfare is
our primary concern.
The NIA foster
care program provides comprehensive and intensive child placement
services, which include clinical and case management activities. This
program serves children from birth to twenty-years old. The ultimate goal
of the NIA program is to promote and achieve permanency (adoption or
transition to independent living) for each of our children and minimize
their time in the foster care system, however, as long as a child is in
our care his or her welfare is our primary concern.
Each of our children has the need for a secure and loving home; a safe
place where he or she can heal and grow. Most of the children we serve
have been separated from biological family as a result of neglect, abuse,
or some other traumatic experience. Many of them have behavioral,
emotional and developmental issues compounded by the long-term
consequences of chronic neglect, abuse, separation, and loss from their
biological families and multiple placement disruptions. Others have a
medical diagnosis for a developmental or emotional challenge and require
closer supervision. Each of them needs special care. We recruit and train
families to provide each child with the specific level of structure and
support that he or she might need.
Both our therapeutic and traditional foster care models places emphasis on
teamwork and community collaboration. Our team typically revolves around
the family and the child and includes a social worker, clinical therapist,
family advocates case aide, and consulting psychiatrists, clinical
supervisors, and a director. Children and youth receive weekly individual,
and or group therapy, bi-weekly in-home consultation. Additionally,
children have involvement with Rites of Passage, and/or expressive
therapies on a continuous basis.
Services we offer include but are not limited to:
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Regular visits with a licensed social worker |
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Spiritually and Culturally focused
individual and family counseling |
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Parent Support Groups |
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Treatment Parent Skill development groups |
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Respite Care and support to families |
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Psychiatric Consultation |
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Monthly in-service training for families |
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24 hour crisis intervention |
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Financial Supports to Foster Parents |
We measure our success child by child
and family by family. Our ultimate success is to reunite a child with his
or her biological family. However, placing a child with a supportive,
loving adoptive family or in an independent living situation with an
effective support network is also a triumph. It is our belief that it
takes a community to raise a child and the reward is witnessing the
physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological growth and healing of
that child and his/her family.
Recruitment and Training
We screen, select,
and train our foster families carefully. We recruit our foster families
through community outreach, marketing and advertising, and word of mouth.
Each member of the household goes through an intensive screening and then
through a comprehensive training process. All our parents are thoroughly
informed about the potential needs of the children we place with them.
Each therapeutic foster care home has 24-hour support from a team of
professionals trained to offer crisis interventions, in-home family
therapy, scheduled and unscheduled respite care, on going parent training
and multi family retreats.
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