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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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