Family Preservation is an in home program designed to support families in their natural environment. It is designed to be as flexible as possible, as to not add additional stresses to the family. The worker's goal is to develop a plan, with the family, to focus on the positive attributers of each family member and build on their weaknesses. We currently have two staff that provide family preservation services at KRNCS. Both members have a minimum of five years of experience in case management and therapeutic intervention. Family preservation is often put in place to avoid disruption in placement. It is utilized for biological families as well as foster families to strengthen the ties and work on maintaining stability.
Family preservation is a more intensive service, done in home with families, biological, foster or adoptive. This therapeutic approach helps families to address issues head on and build skills to eventually depend on more natural resources. In addition, these services are utilized to assess safety and risk.
Family preservation has many sides to it. From the least restrictive life skills, to the most intensive, in home.
The goal of family preservation is to:
Each worker has a minimum of a bachelors degree in a mental health related field, and at least three years of experience.
Estimated length of services are two to five months.
These services can be referred through single case agreement, core services, or private pay. Please contact us for more information.
In home services is more intensive and is primarily done in the families home and outside environments. It is a service that can be utilized in 'emergency type situations' as well as developed to be utilized on a regular day-in day-out basis to build on skills when there isn't a direct crisis. In addition to these in home hands-on approaches, our family preservation program includes therapeutic and supervised visitations for families that are not together.
