Functional Family Therapy Nyc

Catholic charities of broome county.

Functional family therapy nyc.

Fft cw is a family based program that helps families make positive changes in their homes. Increase knowledge of child development. Serves adjudicated adolescents ages 11 through 16 and their families or families who are at risk of their children being placed in foster care because of abuse and or neglect. Each youth is carefully matched to foster parents and the treatment team develops a treatment plan specific to the needs of the youth.

Download a brochure for our fft cw program in english and spanish overview. Catholic charities operates the functional family therapy programs which provides home based family therapy services to at risk youth ages 11 17. Functional family therapy was founded in the 1970s by dr. A typical treatment process consists of 4 months of weekly at home sessions.

Treatment family foster care is a research informed multi tiered team approach to rebuilding family relationships. Fft is systematic evidenced based manual driven family based treatment program which is successful in treating a wide range of problems affecting families including drug use and abuse conduct disorder mental health concerns truancy and related family problems and their families in a wide range of multi ethnic multicultural and geographic contexts. Our programs support the diverse needs of the youth and families we serve in each location. Focus is to maintain teens in their own homes and prevent costly placement into foster care or institutions.

A family based prevention and intervention program.