Ettie Lee Youth & Family Services

The Foster Care, Unaccompanied Minor and Adoption Homes provide children and youth, infants to 21 years old with therapeutic and other support services they need to heal and achieve safety, permanency, and well-being. Children who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected are placed in licensed (residential, foster and adoption), safe, loving homes. Many times, siblings are placed together providing them a permanent place to live and thrive when their own families are not able to care for them. Whenever possible, family reunification is always the first option. Youngsters receive specialized care tailored to meet their individual needs. These services include counseling, psychological testing, psychiatric services, and emancipation assistance. In addition, assessment, and evaluation, individual, family and group therapy, individual and group rehabilitation activities, case management, medication support (psychiatric assessment and evaluation, medication monitoring) and psychological assessment are provided. Aftercare services are available following a child's movement to a permanent setting to provide continuity of care as needed. Ettie Lee's Intensive Treatment Foster Care (ITFC) program cares for children with serious behavioral problems, who would otherwise require group care placement, and enables them to live in a family setting. This program follows the same model as the Foster Care Adoption Program; however, ITFC offers intensified services for foster youth who need extra structure and support. ITFC places only one foster child in a home where the child has an individualized treatment program and the foster parents receive specialized training and professional support twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.Ettie Lee's unaccompanied minor homes provide boys from 10 to 18 with residential care, mental health services, family reunification, educational, recreational services in a group setting.

Ettie Lee Mental Health Programs extend to all of Ettie Lee programming - group care, foster care adoption and Ettie Lee's community based substance use disorder program and mental health services. The Mental Health Program is designed to meet the numerous mental health needs of children, youth and families. Mental Health Services are provided using trauma informed treatment and evidence-based practices that have demonstrated positive outcomes. Services in support of the child include individual, group and family therapy, psychiatric and medication support services, therapeutic behavioral services (TBS), transition and aftercare planning, and in-home and field-based services (including assessment, consultation, case management, individual and family counseling, crisis intervention). The Mental Health Program assists system-involved youth who are not likely to return to their homes to gain caring relationships and coordinated, culturally-responsive, trauma-informed support services to help them build a life worth living, establish safe, stable independent living arrangements and develop safe, stable adult relationships and social support system. All treatment programs are evidence-based. Most services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.