Therapeutic Family Foster Homes
Become a Therapeutic Family Foster Home!
Do you have experience with children and are interested in helping complex needs children in your home?
Therapeutic Family Foster Home (TFFH) is a family home which provides 24-hour care for children and youth with complex needs. DCCCA’s TFFH Program includes intensive support for children at a therapeutic level including children in foster care, children receiving Family Preservation, Family First Prevention Services, or Post-Adoption support services.
Help children with complex needs in your community!
FAMILIES
As a Therapeutic Family Foster Home, the expectations are:
- Work with the child’s parents when applicable
- Have a maximum of two children placed in the home
- Take additional training
- Communicate daily with professionals
- Work the child’s treatment plan to improve the child’s functioning
- Required virtual meetings with TFFH team, weekly
- Weekly in-person meetings in the home
DCCCA SUPPORT
The DCCCA team will support you in the following ways:
- Assistance to get trained and licensed as a Therapeutic Family Foster Home
- 24/7 support and access to your DCCCA specialist
- Regular respite provided
- Ongoing training
- Advocacy for your family and the child
- Additional services for the child
Contact:
Phone: (785) 600-8891
Email: TFFH@dccca.org
Program Requirements
Weekly virtual/in-person visits with the CPA worker in the foster home in the first three months of placement-potential exception after 6 weeks to move to every other week visit. After either an exception to the 3 months or after 3 months, visits are to occur every other week bi-weekly. The CPA/Foster Home visit schedule will be outlined in the CPA’s Stability Treatment Plan.
- Daily check-ins with CPA worker by phone to address foster parent self-care and concerns.
- Limited to two (2) children or youth in the custody of the state in the home. Exceptions may be allowed for siblings.
- Increase the time and attention the therapeutic foster parents have available for the therapeutic process
Support the child’s or youth’s connections to those important to them and invite/welcome all connections to participate in the child’s services and care.
- Carry out treatment plan recommended by mental health provider
- Provide the child or youth positive behavior incentives identified in the stability treatment plan
- Complete daily logging reflecting treatment services to child or youth
- Reimbursement of $159.60/day
Respite Care
CPAs will have respite care available for therapeutic family foster parents. Therapeutic family foster parents may use a respite home provided by a CPA or use their identified support system. It is best practice and encouraged for foster parents to use respite 2 days a month.