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1933 Montana Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002 Telephone: 202-842-2016
Fax: 202-842-0604
For further details and
information contact:
Peter Fitts
Program Director
Telephone: 202.842.2016
Fax: 202.842.0604
Email:
dcps@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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