Options Counseling Services Of Oregon

Family builders intensive safety and reunification services (isrs) is an intensive program with a single goal of doing whatever it takes to keep a family together with a solid foundation of safety and respect. Whether there is an immediate need for food or shelter, or the family would benefit from direct interventions to improve parenting skills, the providers are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to help stabilize the situation. The objective is to reduce the amount of time the child needs to stay in foster care and provides support to the family for lasting behavior change so the child will successfully return and remain in the home.

Options counseling and family services offers individual and family support to families receiving tanf. Through a focus on practical, hands on interventions, families access resources and gain important skills that help them keep their children safe.

Foster and kinship parents are key agents of change for the children in their homes. Keep is an evidence-based support and skill enhancement program for foster and kinship parents of children and teens. The program supports resource families by promoting child well-being and preventing placement breakdowns. Development of substance use disorder program and staff development programs were funded largely by grants.