Intensive Home-Based Services
Aspiranet's Intensive Home-Based Services provide mental and behavioral health support at home, at school, and with the entire family.
About Aspiranet's Intensive Home-Based Services (IHBS)
Aspiranet’s Intensive Home-Based Services (IHBS) are provided to families who are struggling with long term complex issues. Families are challenged by issues like homelessness, unemployment or underemployment, substance abuse, mental health, domestic violence, poverty, etc. The majority of these families have received a number of other services that have not been able to help families resolve their problems. The youth we serve have significant behavioral issues that impact this youth’s success in their family, school, and community. Caregivers often need support in strengthening their parenting skills, knowledge of child development, and advocacy skills. Family relationships have been strained and a history of trauma is present for many. Aspiranet’s IHBS programs center around a team approach that provides intensive support and services where they are most needed – in the family’s home, school, and community. IHBS services focus on the identified needs of the family and youth. The clients served in these programs are among the highest risk youth in our communities. Families have often given up hope by the time IHBS support is made available.
Youth in Aspiranet’s IHBS programs may have been involved in the legal system as a result of their ongoing struggles. These youth are often placed in foster care. Many clients have mental health diagnoses.
Aspiranet's dedicated, professional staff works with the youth and their families to address the stigma and behaviors that impact their day-to-day lives. Aspiranet's goal is to have youth be successful and fully included in all areas of their lives.
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Aspiranet’s IHBS program teams operate as a social service SEAL team.
Each team works with a small number of families and youth, allowing them to provide intensive support and services to our clients. The Aspiranet team includes a highly-trained Social Worker who leads the group and manages services provided to the client and family; a Parent Partner who has experienced similar challenges and services and works directly with caregivers to improve their parenting skills and knowledge of child development as well as serve as a parent advocate; a Support Counselor who works directly with the youth on identified goals; and may include a Therapist who works with the family and youth to address previous trauma and identified mental health issues. Aspiranet IHBS programs have a no reject, no eject policy which results in us not giving up on youth and family.
Aspiranet’s IHBS programs identify each family’s and youth’s strengths and successes. The staff helps families to use these strengths to tackle their current challenges. This is a very effective way to engage our youth and families in taking on their issues. At the end of services, the family and youth have strengthened five protective factors that have been identified as needing to be present in all families so they can thrive and eliminate the risk of abuse and or neglect. Parents have a richer understanding of child development and increased parenting skills, they have identified concrete supports they can use in times of need, they have stronger social connections that enrich and support their family’s lives, have improved resiliency and their youth are socially and emotionally on target. These outcomes result in youth being successful in their family, school, and community and parents being prepared to support their youth’s challenges and successes.
Aspiranet's IHBS Programs
WRAPAROUND PROGRAM
The goal of Wraparound is to provide intensive home-based treatment, centered on strengthening relationships and skills of at-risk youth and their families. The Wraparound Team works to stabilize youth in their current placement and prevent them from being placed into a higher level of care. Our desired outcome is that the youth and families we support will possess the tools and
support network needed to live, grow, and thrive successfully in all aspects of their lives.
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The Wrap process focuses on changing behaviors that improve familial relationships and promote growth. We do this by supporting the youth and their families in strengthening relationships, building communication, reducing conflict, increasing coping skills, improving parenting skills, improving school behaviors, and treating concerns related to various mental health issues.
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WHO QUALIFIES?
Children and youth open to Child Welfare, Probation, AAP, STRTP step-down.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Holistic process NOT a service
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Involves community strength & partnership
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Family-run vs. system-ownership
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Goal of achieving family autonomy by developing connections with natural supports & community resources
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THE WRAPAROUND TEAM
The Wrap program is team-based:
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Facilitator
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Support (Youth) Counselor
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Parent Partner/Peer Support Specialist
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All members of the family (including relatives and non-relative natural and formal supports)
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Our community partners
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POPULATION SERVED
Children and youth aged 0 through 21 years.
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HIGH FIDELITY WRAPAROUND SERVICES
High Fidelity Wrap is guided by the 10 Principles of Wraparound, and emphasizes family voice and choice, collaboration among formal and natural supports, and the development of strength-based plans through IP-CANS assessment that addresses the underlying needs of the youth and family.
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At Aspiranet, High Fidelity Wrap is supported by fidelity monitoring tools such as the Wraparound Fidelity Index (WFI), Team Observation Measure (TOM 2.0), and the Document Assessment and Review Tool (DART) to ensure adherence to the Wraparound model and principles.
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COEDS (COLLABORATIVE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS) PROGRAM
COEDS is a strengths-based behavioral service that implements skill-building interventions to assist students with meeting social/emotional goals on an IEP. The COEDS program is part of the Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) Social-Emotional Services continuum, serving students with such high needs that residential placement is imminent. The COEDS program is the last step on the continuum before a residential placement, making it a final opportunity to help stabilize youth so they can remain in their homes and communities.
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STAFFING MODEL
There are three levels of intensity, including:
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OPTION 1 includes one Support Counselor (behavioral aide that works on reducing maladaptive behaviors that are impacting the youth's ability to access their education)
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OPTION 2 includes a Parent Partner (Aspiranet staff with lived experience advocating on behalf of their own child who has been involved with child welfare, behavioral health, or probation services), and a Family Case Manager (a Social Worker who is the case manager for the Aspiranet team)
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OPTION 3 includes a Support Counselor, Parent Partner, and a Family Case Manager
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WHO WE SERVE
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Youth (ages 5-21) who are referred by their school-based Clinician
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Clients can range from youth on probation, foster youth, and families from different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds
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CFTs AND IP-CANS PROGRAMS
Child and Family Team (CFTs) coordinate and facilitate a collaboration with children and youth, their families, and other agencies o the assessment, case planning, and placement decisions that are made by placing agencies. The Aspiranet facilitator helps identify needed contacts, builds consensus within the team around collaborative plans, actively supports the agenda, and ensures that the family's voice and choice is heard throughout the entire teaming process.
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The program is based on the philosophy that child welfare services are most effective when delivered in the context of a child or youth as well as a family-centered child and family team that shares responsibility to assess, plan, intervene, and refine services over time.
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IP-CANS - WHAT WE DO
The IP-CANS (Integrated Practice Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths) helps the CFT organize information, communicate more clearly, reach agreements about how to support the child/youth or family, and tracks the progress of the team. The IP-CANS uses a rating scale to summarize important areas related to the child/youth's needs in school, at work, at home, and in relationships with friends and others. The IP-CANS also captures the strengths of the child/youth and the caregivers.
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The IP-CANS may be completed with the child/youth and their family over time or during multiple gatherings. It is reviewed and finalized at CFTs, and updated as needed, but at least every six months.
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FAMILY URGENT RESPONSE SYSTEM (FURS)
The FURS program is a coordinated statewide, regional, and county-level system designed to provide collaborative and timely state-level phone-based response and county-level in-home, in-person mobile response during situations of instability, with the goal of preserving the relationship of the caregiver and the child or youth.
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The program supports current and former foster youth up to age 21 and their caregivers, including those in kinship care or who have been reunified with their birth families, have been adopted, or placed under guardianship.
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THIS IS A 24-HOUR DIRECT CALL SERVICE PROVIDING A 1 to 3-HOUR IN-PERSON RESPONSE TIME
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