Family Preservation Services is a short-term, six- to eight-week, intensive, in-home program designed to prevent imminent out-of-home placement and keep families together.  A Family Consultant spends up to 20 hours a week in a family’s home and community to help parents provide a safe, healthy environment for their children.  The Family Consultant focuses on family strengths, helping the family to become self-sufficient and improve parenting techniques. The Family Consultant not only provides interventions in the family’s own home and community, but also links the family to community resources needed to maintain stability.  Family Consultants are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Family-Centered Services is an early intervention program designed to treat and address youth and family problems at home or school.  The main goals of this program are to build family strengths, teach new skills, and reduce out-of-home placement of children.  This program is for families who need supportive services to address high-risk situations and to prevent early issues from becoming a crisis.  Family-Centered Services is also utilized to reduce delinquency or to make court involvement less necessary.  Trained Family Consultants offer in-home counseling and skill development to children and families by providing teaching and instruction on specific skills and competencies.  Family Consultants are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and work directly with families two to four hours a week for three to six months. Family assistance includes focusing on the child’s behavior and improving parenting and family problem-solving skills, as well as linking families to needed family services.