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• Respite Programs CSSD has been piloting a respite program specifically designed to divert FWSN girls from detention since July 2003. The program, known as Center for Assessment, Respite and Enrichment (CARE) is a voluntary, two week respite program. This program provides assessment and linkages to home or community-based services. Such a program has existed for almost two years in Waterbury. Statistics show that between SFY 2003 - 2005, there was a 30% decrease in girls’ admission to detention and a 40% decrease in girls sent to detention for a prior FWSN referral from the Waterbury juvenile court. As of April 2006, 67% of the girls who went to the CARE program in Waterbury between January 2005 and January 2006 had no further court involvement and 80% did not go to detention. 15 Based on this success, CSSD has expanded the number of CARE programs, doubling the number of beds for girls and adding a program for boys. Respite Care currently in place is reflected in Chart 3. CHART 3 Program type Provider/ location Beds CARE Program for Girls St. Francis Home for Children 6 651 Prospect Street New Haven, CT CARE Program for Girls CT Junior Republic 6 80 Prospect Street Waterbury, Ct CARE Program for Boys St. Francis Home for Children 672 Congress Avenue New Haven, CT 6 • Alternative Education Program (STEP) The DCF operates an educational reentry program (a program to facilitate the child remaining in or returning to public school) known as “Support Teams for Educational Progress (STEP)”primarily for delinquent children. The program provides: • Educational Advocacy • Transitional Education Program • Substance Abuse Prevention • Employability Skills Development In an effort to serve and decrease the court involvement of FWSN children with schoolrelated issues, DCF has reallocated some slots on a case-by-case basis in each of two STEP programs for FWSN boys and girls to address issues related to truancy, educational 15 Letter from William Carbone, Executive Director, CSSD to Preston Britner, FWSN Advisory Committee Co-Chairperson dated February 6, 2007. 39
achievement and reentry. The program is available in two major cities, New Haven and Hartford, with an additional program set to open in Bridgeport in early 2008. The cost of the program is approximately $185 per day, per child. • Functional Family Therapy (FFT) Functional Family Therapy, an intensive in-home service, was originally used by the DCF regional offices and was recently expanded to be available for children in the delinquent and FWSN populations on a limited case- by-case basis. FFT provides in home and community-based clinical services to children and their families. The clinical services include assessment and screening, family treatment, consultation and referral to other services. FFT Programs provide access to child and adolescent psychiatric services as well. While FFT is not a 24/7 emergency crisis intervention program, each provider agency has available 24/7 emergency crisis response capacity. • Multi-systemic Therapy (MST) Multi-systemic Therapy is a family-based treatment model that places considerable attention on factors in the adolescent’s and family’s social networks that are linked with antisocial behavior. Both DCF and CSSD provide this type of programming through contracts with private providers. MST priorities include removing offenders from deviant peer groups, enhancing school or vocational performance, and developing an indigenous support network for the family to maintain therapeutic gains. MST programs have an extremely strong commitment to removing barriers to service access (see e.g., the homebased model of service delivery). MST services are more intensive than traditional family therapies (e.g., several hours of treatment per week vs. 50 minutes). MST has welldocumented long-term outcomes with adolescents presenting serious antisocial behavior and their families. The strongest and most consistent support for the effectiveness of MST comes from controlled studies that focused on violent and chronic juvenile offenders. • Brief Family Systemic Therapy (BFST) Brief Family Systemic Therapy is a short-term, problem-focused intervention provided by CSSD. The average treatment includes approximately 12–15 sessions and lasts about 3 months. For more severe cases, such as substance-abusing adolescents, the average number of sessions and length of treatment may be doubled. It is important to note, however, that BSFT is not a fixed “package.” Treatment continues until the family achieves changes in key behavioral criteria rather than until it completes a predetermined number of sessions. • Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service is a standardized treatment model, developed at the Yale Child Study Center, for children with serious mental illness 40
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