Childrens Aid Home Programs Of Somerset County Inc

Partial Hospitalization Program. This program service provides day treatment services for youth ages 12 to 18 years who are experiencing mental health difficulties. These difficulties will show in family relationship conflicts, school/educational problems, and/or behavioral/emotional problems. Youth receive services 6 hours per day, 5 days per week in the form of counseling, group work, and psychiatric care. Their educational needs are met by the IU08 or Somerset Area School District with support and assistance by program staff. All care and services are designed to help youth integrate back to the community and public school.

Foster Care.This program provides a 24 hour per day living arrangement for children and youth ages infant to 18 years with a community family. These children and youth are experiencing family, school, behavioral, and/or emotional circumstances which led to the placement. Casework staff recruits, approves, and monitors families to provide care for the children and youth. The casework staff and foster families work with the children and youth toward normal development and achieving permanency. This permanency will be a return to their biological family or through adoption. Support and assistance is provided throughout the placement process.

Adoptive Care.The Organization is a licensed adoption agency in the state of Pennsylvania and is an approved affiliate with the Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network.

Options Program.The program provides academic and instruction and behavioral counseling to students whose behaviors are problematic in a public school setting. Behavioral counseling is designed to assist the student in successfully returning to public school.

Functional Family Therapy.FFT is a family-based prevention and intervention program for high-risk youth that addresses complex problems through clinical practice that is flexibly structured and culturally sensitive.