Program areas at Home of the Innocents
Residential services - 65-bed residential treatment program and emergency shelter for children ages 11 to 19 who have experienced abuse, abandonment, and neglect. Behavioral health therapy services for children and their families, including individual and family therapy.
Complex care center - 76-bed pediatric complex care center, which provides skilled nursing care for medically complex and technology-dependent children with chronic health problems requiring either short or long-term care, as well as respite care for families who are caring for their medically complex children at Home.
Home-to Home services include a range of different services:- multisystemic therapy (mst) which focuses on The entire ecology of youths' lives, addressing multiple factors that contribute to antisocial behavior, including factors at The family, school, and community levels. Mst typically targets chronic, violent, and substance abusing youth, ages 12 to 17, at high risk of (or returning from) out-of-home placement. - therapeutic in-home interventions for children and families facing challenges that affect The child's mental and behavioral health and The stability of The overall family. Families receive therapeutic support, behavior support and case management, as well as additional specialized therapeutic services.- service coordination and in-home case management, transitional housing and life skills classes for young adults, ages 18 to 24 years old who live in community-based apartments.- parenting classes for families including training, supoprt and education for The parents/caregivers to build nurturing parenting skills.- supervised exchanges in a safe place for survivors of domestic violence or those with a potential for violence between caregivers to exchange children with non-residential parents.
Foster care and adoption - designed to recruit, train and license foster and adoptive parents so their Home is ready for placement of children who have been removed from their natural parents/caregivers. Services include respite care and project keepsafe for families where inpatient treatment is necessary for parents to keep The family together.
Other program services - school lunch program and miscellaneous income to support other program activities.
Outpatient services - provide parent education and pharmacy services.