Adoption Services

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Adoption
This program provides services for children who have been in the custody of the Section of Children & Families who accept the goal of adoption. These children are often older, members of a sibling group or of a item ethnic group. They may have special needs to include physical, emotional and/or medical difficulties. The program assesses the children's needs and identifies the blazon of family best suited to encounter their needs.
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MAPP Training
The adoption staff members also recruit, train and provide ongoing support to pre-adoptive families. Habitation study and MAPP (Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting) training is provided free of charge to families interested in providing a permanent dwelling house to waiting children.

The adoption staff also recruit, train and provide ongoing support to pre-adoptive families. MAPP (Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting) training is a 30 hour course in which both a trained adoption worker and an adoptive/foster parent work with families to teach them most the needs of children in the foster intendance system and how all-time to parent children with these specific needs. The course delves into behavioral and emotional needs, legal problems with adopting them from foster care and other important topics.  (MAPP Training Dates)

Once MAPP training is complete, an adoption worker will assist the family unit to write a home study. A home study is an extensive document detailing the family's composition, background, strengths and child interest characteristics. This document will help other social workers match children with families that would best meet their needs.
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Adoption Search
Adoption search is a research service provided to all members of an existing adoption triad (adoptive parents, biological parents and adoptees). To request information, multiple forms must to be signed and sent to our agency. Clients must besides send proof of identification, such as a re-create of your driver'south license or other photo I.D. Information shared is in accord with Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 2105 5D.
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Adoption Journeys

Adoption Journeys provides mail service-adoption support services to families throughout Massachusetts. This program is the upshot of collaboration between the public and private sector, adoptive families and child welfare agencies. Families formed through adoption and guardianship concord unique dynamics, strengths, and challenges. Adoption Journeys is the specialized service designed to answer to these in a supportive style. Post-adoption services can be essential to help adoptive families embrace their new family unit identity. These services are especially important for families who face challenges later their adoptions are finalized. Supportive services are provided in a family-centered manner with all services being consumer-driven. All services are voluntary, with a family choosing when and how to participate. A family should non feel alone when confronted with perplexing or worrisome issues. Families demand non wait until a major problem has occurred before asking for assistance.
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Mental Health Services

Child & Family's mental health programs provide the foundation for the agency's broad range of services to children, adults, and families. This fully licensed mental health clinic provides therapy and assessments for individuals, families, couples, and groups. We offer psychiatric evaluations, and medication monitoring by a psychiatrist.

Developed Behavioral Health Services (ABHS)
This clinic provides a total range of handling including individuals, families, and couples therapy with various mental wellness issues. Information technology also offers medication management past an practiced grouping of psychiatrists.

Child Behavioral Health Services (CBHS)
The emotional needs and problems facing children and teens are unlike than those of adults. Child & Family unit's clinicians are specially trained to work with children, adolescents and their families. Family therapy is emphasized and we e'er encourage parents to be involved in their child'due south therapy. Psychiatric services are also available as an important component of our comprehensive treatment service. Our doctors and clinicians work together as a team to insure that children and their families receive the best care.

Schoolhouse-Based Therapy Services

Schools are in a unique position to place students who may be in need of emotional support. Child & Family, in cooperation with local school districts, provides clinical services on-site within New Bedford and surrounding communities. School-based services allow the clinician and the school to work together to address the complex needs of the students and their families in a setting that is both familiar and comfortable for students.

Please note that if your kid is beingness referred for trauma work, the referral should be to the clinic, equally we do non treat trauma symptoms in a school setting.

  • If you would like to identify a referral for schoolhouse-based therapy, please be sure to review the list of schools we are serving before making a referral.

Customs Support Youth & Family Services

Parent Mentor
Parent Mentor is a comprehensive educational and advocacy program for families referred by the Department of Social Services. Parent Mentors piece of work with families to learn new and better ways of coping with the challenges of every day life. The focus of the plan is to strengthen families at risk for kid abuse or neglect. To bring about constructive change, Parent Mentors apply a range of methods that include support, guidance, instruction and treatment. The goal is to keep children with their families in order to spare them the trauma of separation and loss.
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Parents Every bit Teachers
Parents As Teachers (PAT) is a modeled certified program that emphasizes parent-child interaction, development centered parenting, and family well- being. The PAT programme works with parents from prenatal to kindergarten age past doing family centered assessments and following a structured curriculum. Each participant is assigned a certified Parent Educator. A certified Parent Educator will do four interrelated and integrated components to the PAT model. 1. Personal Visits. 2. Group Connections. 3. Screening. iv. Resource Networking.
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Therapeutic Mentoring
Therapeutic Mentoring offers structured, one-to-one, force-based support services between a therapeutic mentor and a youth for the purpose of addressing daily living, social, and advice needs.
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Immature Parent Back up (YPS)
This program is an open up referral service that is designed to provide home based services to pregnant and parenting teens in the Greater New Bedford and Fall River expanse who are under the age of 23. The services are geared toward high-risk teens that are disengaged from needed services. Our team consists of experienced case managers to assist young parents with the many aspects of parenthood including health care, pedagogy, housing, and healthy relationships.
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Youth Permanency Connections
Youth Permanency Connections services are designed to promote permanency and to establish a meaning adult connection in a youth'southward life every bit they historic period out of the foster care system. YPC staff collaborates with Department of Children and Families (DCF) surface area social workers to identify youth who can do good from enrollment in the program. Together we work to improve outcomes for youth in foster intendance.
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Outreach & Customs Counseling

Kid & Family's outreach programs provide support and assistance to children and families. Clinicians provide abode-based counseling for clients who are unable to get out their home. Therapists piece of work with clients in school, residential, and employment settings.

In-Home Therapy
 Available for eligible Masshealth recipients as part of the CBHI array of services
 In-Home Therapy works intensively with your whole family, not just your child, in your own home and community setting to strengthen relationships and support your child. In-Dwelling Therapy can help your child and family resolve conflicts, learn new means to talk with and understand each other, create helpful new routines, and identify customs resources which could be helpful. Services are delivered by one or more members of our professional therapeutic and support squad. Services are bachelor seven days/week between the hours of 8am – 8pm and include a 24/vii telephone response for urgent bug.
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Contact Data

Kid & Family Services | Fall River
66 Troy Street
Fall River, MA 02720
Tel: (508) 676-5708
Fax: (508) 676-1948