FAMILY FOCUSED RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

Family Focused Residential Services are designed to expedite the youth’s return home.  Specifically, Family Focused Residential Services increase the youth’s inclusion in the family and the family’s inclusion into the community with increasing family empowerment and less reliance on intensive service delivery; move the child from more restrictive educational settings to the least restrictive setting, as appropriate; and reduce or eliminate the child’s involvement with these systems as clinically indicated. 

Services available at Farmington Children’s Home, Stubbins Memorial Regional Family & Youth Center, Regional Girls’ Shelter, Columbia office & St. Louis office.

 

Admission Criteria

  •  IQ above 60 
  • Family and child are committed to reunification 
  • Participation of referring agency 
  • Health issues which can reasonably be served 
  • Family willing to cope with an “intrusive” program 
  • A reasonable safety plan can be developed
  •  At least one parent figure willing to commit to all safety need
  •  Medical insurance or Medicaid available

Appropriate for Service

  • Ages 11-18. Male or female. 
  • A family with a child whose behaviors make lesser alternatives problematic. 
  • A family willing to make changes to preserve itself & the courage to see and accept help. 
  • Adoptive families facing the unique crises of adolescent adoptive identity 
  • A family which wants to partner with the agency and others 
  • A family which ultimately wants to be in charge of their own lives.

Contact: 

Farmington Children's Home

Caren Mell

573-756-6744

care...@care4kids.org

 

Stubbins Memorial Regional Family & Youth Center

Trueman Orson

660-263-7044

true...@care4kids.org

 

Regional Girls' Shelter

Leslie Snyder

417-862-9634

lesl...@care4kids.org