We utilize the full range of professional expertise. A basic belief in the Children's Services program is that the corrective and healing experiences that we provide for the child are an outcome of the child's interaction with all the significant others in his or her environment. In order to bring to fruition this professional model, an extensive program of staff workshops and special training is made available on all levels of staffing.
Special emphasis is given to inservice training for our foster parents and rehabilitation workers.
Inservice training focuses on a wide range of topics. We are especially interested in working with children who have experienced, or are at risk of experiencing, a succession of unsuccessful placements. Our aim is to build on a child and family's strengths through supportive intervention, and to foster reunification. Costs Childrens' Services are intensive, more normalized, and individualized, than most hospitals and residential programs for children with emotional and behavioral disturbances. Yet, we are more cost effective.