Organization: Boys Town Nevada Inc
Mission: Changing the way America cares for children and families.
Activities: In-home family services is a short-term ten to twelve week, intensive, in-home program designed to prevent imminent out of home placement and keep families together. A Consultant spends on average up to 4-6 hours a week in a familys home and community to help parents provide a safe, healthy environment for their children. The Consultant focuses on family strengths, helping the family to become self-sufficient, and improve parenting techniques. The Consultant not only provides interventions in the familys own home and community, but also links the family to community resources needed to maintain stability. Family Consultants are on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Care Coordination Services provide intensive case-management services for families in or approaching situations. Trained Consultants help families build and maintain family stability and access community resources and supports. Care Coordination Services provide a lifeline to family members by ensuring they receive the right care at the right time. In this intensive, family centered case management program,
The Behavioral Health Clinic specializes in providing outpatient child, adolescent, and family behavioral health services Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, Psychological Evaluations, and Parent Training. The clinics treatments are backed by research, and the Boys Town Behavioral Clinics located around the country have years of experience serving children and teens with emotional and behavioral problems. The clinic specializes in creating comprehensive approaches to care. The clinic mission is to resolve problems early, before they develop into more serious health and behavioral issues that impact functioning. The clinicians actively work to coordinate care with the family, the childs pediatrician, and school staff to ensure long-term success. The age range seen in the clinic is toddlers to young adults college age. Working with the childs parents, the clinicians develop treatment plans for youth who face these problems such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD, school, anxiety and worry, depression, anger management, bedtime problems and sleep disorders,
Common Sense Parenting is a series of educational sessions designed to help improve parenting styles using behavior management skills. Classes are for parents of children toddlers and up. The program provides parents and other caregivers with proven techniques that can help them build good family relationships, prevent and correct misbehaviors, use consequences to improve behavior, and teach self - control.
NTEE category: Human Services
Secondary category: Mental Health & Crisis Intervention