Intensive In-Home Services are short-termed, home based, crisis intervention services offering families in crisis the alternative to remain safely together, averting the out-of-home placement of children whenever possible. Intensive In-home service combines skill-based intervention with maximum flexibility so that services are available to families according to their unique needs.
Goals of In-home Service
- Preserve and strengthen family unity and improve the family’s ability to function with greater adaptation to stressors that may occur within the family
- Prevent out-of-home placement and the significant disruption of the family that accompanies the crisis of removing an individual from the home
- Bring psychotherapeutic intervention into the home to strengthen the family’s ability to cope with stress
- Stabilize and improve the functioning of the individual and their family
- Introduce and mobilize resources for the individual, the family, and the community to address the current difficulties
- Transition the individual successfully back into the home and community
- Coordinate external resources necessary to the improve the functioning of the individual/family
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