CFSP 5 Year Plan - RI Department of Children, Youth & Families
CFSP 5 Year Plan - RI Department of Children, Youth & Families
CFSP 5 Year Plan - RI Department of Children, Youth & Families
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<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Children</strong>, <strong>Youth</strong> and <strong>Families</strong><br />
- Community and Home-Based Non-Residential Services for <strong>Children</strong> and <strong>Families</strong><br />
Community and Home-Based Non-Residential Services for <strong>Children</strong> and <strong>Families</strong> cont’d<br />
Program Name<br />
Program<br />
Description<br />
Population<br />
Served<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> Diversionary Program<br />
(YDP)<br />
• Designed to prevent<br />
delinquency and strengthen<br />
families with children ages 9<br />
through 17.<br />
• Services are for 90 days.<br />
• Services target truancy,<br />
running away from home or<br />
risk <strong>of</strong> involvement in juvenile<br />
justice system.<br />
• Referrals from schools, police,<br />
parents, self referrals, and<br />
community-based agencies.<br />
• <strong>Youth</strong> referred to YDP cannot<br />
have a status with DCYF.<br />
Outreach and Tracking<br />
• Services provided to youth 7-20 years<br />
<strong>of</strong> age, but more focused on 12 -17 in<br />
some programs.<br />
• Intensive supervision program.<br />
• Prevention <strong>of</strong> out-<strong>of</strong>-home placement<br />
or aftercare for youth returning home or<br />
to their community.<br />
• Services designed to assist youth<br />
understand and manage their difficult<br />
behavior, and assist parents to improve<br />
their parenting skills.<br />
• Services may be connected to DCYF<br />
programs as part <strong>of</strong> the continuum for<br />
aftercare.<br />
• <strong>Youth</strong> may or may not be active with<br />
DCYF.<br />
• Behavior issues include disobedience,<br />
anger, aggression, truancy, drop out,<br />
running away, drug involvement or<br />
delinquent <strong>of</strong>fenses.<br />
Care Management Team (CMT)<br />
• Designed to involve a child’s family and larger<br />
community representatives in planning for treatment<br />
and service needs aimed at ensuring necessary<br />
treatment to maintain a child within their community<br />
whenever possible.<br />
• Community-based teams work with families to make<br />
treatment and service decisions within each <strong>of</strong> the<br />
DCYF geographic Regions.<br />
• Individualized treatment and care is focused on<br />
maintaining children and youth in the least restrictive<br />
setting possible, preferably at home.<br />
• Services are provided to families with high risk or high<br />
need children and youth in DCYF care who require a<br />
combination <strong>of</strong> services to effectively transition to or<br />
from residential treatment.<br />
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