Counseling Services
Operated in the Green River Area under the auspices of the Kentucky Department for Social Services, the sole referral source.
Family Preservation Program
Cathy S. Lamar , Family Preservation/Family Reunification Program Director
What is Family Preservation?
Family Preservation is a family based program designed to provide short-term intensive counseling, as well as supportive, and concrete services to families in crisis. This crisis situation handled through Family Preservation is always that a child(ren) is at imminent risk of being placed outside the home. The Family Preservation Program is based on the Homebuilders Model which emphasizes the uniqueness and value of ALL families. The program also recognizes the great need for caring, trained and dedicated staff members to work on a flexible, yet intensive schedule that is set up to best meet each family's needs. Family Preservation staff members are available to their families 24 hours a day, for approximately a four to six week period. The goal of the service is to preserve the family; to remove or diffuse the crisis instead of removing the child, and to teach methods of crisis prevention.
The Family Preservation Program covers the seven county Green River Area (Daviess, Henderson, Union, Webster, McLean, Hancock, and Ohio) in Western Kentucky, and is a part of the Audubon Area Community Services, Inc. The general program is run under the auspices of the Kentucky Department of Community Based Services (DCBS). Strategies and guidelines for therapeutic services are based on the Homebuilders Model, a part of the Institute for Family Development in Washington state. Referrals to the Family Preservation Program are handled through local Department for Community Based Services.
Family Reunification Program
The situtations handled through Family Reunification is always that a child(ren) is being returned to the home. The Family Reunification Program is also based on the Homebuilders Model which emphasizes the uniqueness and value of ALL families. Family Reunification therapists are available to their families 24 hours a day, for approximately a three to six month period. The goal of the service is to aid the family in adjusting to changes that result when a child(ren) is returned to the home after having been removed for a period of time. The Family Reunification Program covers two counties in the Green River Area, Daviess and Henderson.
FACTS Program
What is FACTS?
The FACTS program was designed to help families that qualify for both the Family and Reunification Programs, but who are TANF (Temporary Assistance Needy Families) eligible. Therefore, the FACTS program gives the families the same in-home strength based intervention as the two above mentioned programs, but is specifically set aside for families who meet certain financial requirements.
During the week of September 2-6, Counseling Services Clinical Supervisor, Cathy Lamar received word from the Kentucky Department for Juvenile Justice (DJJ) that Audubon Area would receive a two-year contract to administer the Kentucky Intensive Services Program (KISP). KISP is a DJJ program that serves families with at least one child that is in imment risk of being institutionalized. KISP helps divert youths from residential placement by using an array of interventions and providing an intensive level of home-based services for the juvenile offenders and their families. Depending on identified needs, services can include 24-hour crisis intervention, parent training, wrap-around coordination of community services, education/vocational planning and multi-systemic family treatment. Youths/families will receive approximately three months of service under KISP.
This program serves all of Kentucky except three northern Kentucky counties. The Central Region KISP office will be located in Louisville, the East Region office is located in Lexington, and the West Region office in Owensboro. The KISP program should, hopefully, be taking its first referrals by November 1st, 2002.
The total KISP grant award is for $1,790,000 — $490,000 for the Eastern Region, $600,000 for the Western Region, and $700,000 for the Central Region. KISP will be hiring 18 new AACS employees. Ms. Lamar will supervise KISP.
Why are all these services needed?
We believe that all children have the right to, and need a permanent and loving family. We also believe that many times families are in need of help that has often not been available. It is estimated that nearly 500,000 children nationwide are currently in out-of-home placements. These placements include foster care, group homes, juvenile institutions. With projected population increases and the failure of current methods to deal successfully with such placements. The Family Preservation/Reunification/FACTS Programs are an interventional tool proven successful in some twenty-five states in preventing out-of-home placements.
The goal of these programs is to keep our families; safe, healthy, and happy. To "preserve" one of our greatest gifts on the earth, the family.
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Family Preservation Program
Cathy S. Lamar , Family Preservation/Family Reunification Program Director
What is Family Preservation?
Family Preservation is a family based program designed to provide short-term intensive counseling, as well as supportive, and concrete services to families in crisis. This crisis situation handled through Family Preservation is always that a child(ren) is at imminent risk of being placed outside the home. The Family Preservation Program is based on the Homebuilders Model which emphasizes the uniqueness and value of ALL families. The program also recognizes the great need for caring, trained and dedicated staff members to work on a flexible, yet intensive schedule that is set up to best meet each family's needs. Family Preservation staff members are available to their families 24 hours a day, for approximately a four to six week period. The goal of the service is to preserve the family; to remove or diffuse the crisis instead of removing the child, and to teach methods of crisis prevention.
The Family Preservation Program covers the seven county Green River Area (Daviess, Henderson, Union, Webster, McLean, Hancock, and Ohio) in Western Kentucky, and is a part of the Audubon Area Community Services, Inc. The general program is run under the auspices of the Kentucky Department of Community Based Services (DCBS). Strategies and guidelines for therapeutic services are based on the Homebuilders Model, a part of the Institute for Family Development in Washington state. Referrals to the Family Preservation Program are handled through local Department for Community Based Services.
Family Reunification Program
The situtations handled through Family Reunification is always that a child(ren) is being returned to the home. The Family Reunification Program is also based on the Homebuilders Model which emphasizes the uniqueness and value of ALL families. Family Reunification therapists are available to their families 24 hours a day, for approximately a three to six month period. The goal of the service is to aid the family in adjusting to changes that result when a child(ren) is returned to the home after having been removed for a period of time. The Family Reunification Program covers two counties in the Green River Area, Daviess and Henderson.
FACTS Program
What is FACTS?
The FACTS program was designed to help families that qualify for both the Family and Reunification Programs, but who are TANF (Temporary Assistance Needy Families) eligible. Therefore, the FACTS program gives the families the same in-home strength based intervention as the two above mentioned programs, but is specifically set aside for families who meet certain financial requirements.
During the week of September 2-6, Counseling Services Clinical Supervisor, Cathy Lamar received word from the Kentucky Department for Juvenile Justice (DJJ) that Audubon Area would receive a two-year contract to administer the Kentucky Intensive Services Program (KISP). KISP is a DJJ program that serves families with at least one child that is in imment risk of being institutionalized. KISP helps divert youths from residential placement by using an array of interventions and providing an intensive level of home-based services for the juvenile offenders and their families. Depending on identified needs, services can include 24-hour crisis intervention, parent training, wrap-around coordination of community services, education/vocational planning and multi-systemic family treatment. Youths/families will receive approximately three months of service under KISP.
This program serves all of Kentucky except three northern Kentucky counties. The Central Region KISP office will be located in Louisville, the East Region office is located in Lexington, and the West Region office in Owensboro. The KISP program should, hopefully, be taking its first referrals by November 1st, 2002.
The total KISP grant award is for $1,790,000 — $490,000 for the Eastern Region, $600,000 for the Western Region, and $700,000 for the Central Region. KISP will be hiring 18 new AACS employees. Ms. Lamar will supervise KISP.
Why are all these services needed?
We believe that all children have the right to, and need a permanent and loving family. We also believe that many times families are in need of help that has often not been available. It is estimated that nearly 500,000 children nationwide are currently in out-of-home placements. These placements include foster care, group homes, juvenile institutions. With projected population increases and the failure of current methods to deal successfully with such placements. The Family Preservation/Reunification/FACTS Programs are an interventional tool proven successful in some twenty-five states in preventing out-of-home placements.
The goal of these programs is to keep our families; safe, healthy, and happy. To "preserve" one of our greatest gifts on the earth, the family.