Oregon Community Programs

Connections - The therapeutic interventions delivered improves family communication and attunement. Parents report significant reduction in childrens externalizing behaviors, successful parental discipline through positive reinforcement and limit setting, and improved teacher-reported social competence. (Part of outpatient behavioral and mental health services which serves 293 clients per year). Intensive In Home Behavioral Health Therapy (IIBHT)offers services to the family in their home or community, providing comprehensive services to stabilize youth to avoid escalating into higher levels of care.

Early Childhood - Early Childhood clinicians are certified in Parent-Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT), which markedly decreases tantrums (frequency, severity, duration) and negative attention-seeking behaviors. These positive outcomes in turn decrease parental frustration and stress. Our weekly playgroup focuses on pre-school readiness skills of social competence, behavior and emotion regulation, and early literacy skills. Foster children in our EC program also have significantly fewer failed placements compared to children in the traditional foster care system. (Part of outpatient behavioral and mental health services which serves 293 clients per year).