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1. Family Intervention:
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability
for Runaway and Homeless Youth
André C. Wade, National Alliance to End Homelessness
Tania Pryce, Youth Services of Tulsa
Dr. Norweeta G. Milburn, UCLA Semel Institute for
Neuroscience and Human Behavior
2. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
June is Family Reunification Month
National Reunification Month is sponsored by
the American Bar Association's (ABA's) Center on Children and the Law.
3. The Discussion
• André will provide an overview of family intervention, which will
include family reunification, family connecting and family finding.
• Tania will discuss family intervention work being done within a
continuum of service options, the challenges and opportunities to
family intervention, as well as how to reduce barriers to providing
services to families and individuals in need.
• Norweeta will discuss a short family intervention
model, Support to Reunite, Involve, and Value Each Other (STRIVE);
the components that are included in STIVE sessions, and how family
intervention can be delivered for families of homeless youth.
4. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
Family intervention can facilitate the process of
youth returning home, strengthen families, and
address trauma to mitigate future ejects from
the home.
5. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
Family intervention is an umbrella term that can
include discrete strategies such as family
reunification, family connecting and family
finding. Aftercare services can be a form of
family intervention that is provided to a youth
and their family, after a youth has exited a
program.
6. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
• Family reunification in refers to the process of
returning children and youth in temporary
out-of-home care to their families of origin .
The process of family reunification planning
should always involve the child/youth in
decision making, and include on going
assessments of safety.
7. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
• Family connecting includes connecting a
youth with their family to facilitate an
emotional reunification if a physical
reunification is not possible.
8. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
Family Finding is a model that is used in child welfare to identify and
engage extended family, fictive kin adults that are important in the life
of a youth. The model, which centers around the youth, includes six
stages3:
1. Discovering
2. Engaging
3. Planning
4. Decision-Making
5. Evaluating
6. Follow-Up Supports
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3. Campbell, K. Six steps for family finding: Center for Family: Center
for Family Finding and Youth Connectedness. Resource Documents.
9. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
• Aftercare services, which can be found in a
number of service contexts, such as juvenile
justice, child welfare, and homelessness can
be formal or informal, depending upon the
objective of the intervention.
10. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
Benefits of Family Intervention
• Reunify youth with their family in the home to end an episode of
homelessness
• Create a housing destination
• Improve the relationship between a youth and his/her family
• Emotionally connect youth with their family to increase a youth’s
outcomes
• Prevent or decrease the risk of a youth running away or being
thrown out of the home in the future
• Keep families in tact
• Addressing trauma
11. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
Evidenced-Based Models
• Strengthening Families Program
• Brief Strategic Family Therapy
• Family Behavior Therapy
• Project STRIVE (discussed later during the webinar)
• Family Acceptance Project
• Multisystemic Therapy
• Functional Family Therapy
• Family Group Decision Making/Family Group Conferencing
• Intensive Family Preservation Services
12. Family Intervention
Building Relationships and Increasing Stability for Runaway and Homeless Youth
André C. Wade, Program and Policy Analyst
National Alliance to End Homelessness
awade@naeh.org
13.
14. How Youth Services
Reduces Barriers
Multiple Full Multiple No Pre-
doorways continuum Locations authorization
• Safe Place • Crisis services • 5 Satellite Process
• Shelter • Counseling offices • Same week
• Counseling • Youth appointments
• TLP development • Sliding scale
• SOS • Strong payments
• GLBTQ community • Solution
connections focused
15. Youth and Young Adults
Crave
connections
Separation Seek out
from services family
Feelings of “Unsuccess-
guilt and ful”
shame reunification
16. Youth and Young Adults
Changing the Cycle
• Youth crave • Seek out
connections family
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With staff
discussions
support
with staff
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developing lessen
connections impact
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Reunification
26. Project STRIVE: Support to
Reunite, Involve, and Value Each
Other
Runaway behavior: Response to unresolved family
conflict
Family intervention
– Family strengths
– Problem solving
– Conflict negotiation
– Role clarification
5 sessions
28. Project STRIVE: Session 1 Tasks
Introduction and begin using tokens
Understanding program,
Commitment to participation
Introduce family album
Feeling good about each other
Identify family strengths
Developing tools to reduce risk of running away: Stating positives about self
Identifying and uncomfortable situation and introducing coping plan
Preparing for future high risk situations
Identifying social supports
Have family members sign contract for returning home
Giving to each other
Establish the phone contract and assign post session activity of having
conversations and giving “verbal” tokens to each other
Hello and thank you for joining us. We are excited to have you with us for this discussion on family intervention. My name is Andre Wade and I am a program and policy analyst with the National Alliance to End Homelessness. I am joined by Tania Pryce of Youth Services of Tulsa and Dr. Norweeta Milburn of UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human BehaviorWe’ll be taking questions at the end, so please use your control panel, on the screen, to submit your questions. Also, we’ll be posting this webinar and the presentation on the Alliance’s website in a few days.
In case you weren’t aware June is family reunification month, which is sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law.
For today’s webinar Iwill provide an overview of family intervention, which will include family reunification, family connecting and family finding, and aftercare services.Tania will discuss family intervention work being done within a continuum of service options, the challenges and opportunities to family intervention, as well as how to reduce barriers to providing services to families and individuals in need.Norweeta will discuss a short family intervention model called, Support to Reunite, Involve, and Value Each Other (STRIVE); the components that are included in STRIVE sessions, and how family intervention can be delivered for families of homeless youth.
The strategy to intervene with youth as part of a family unit is a promising strategy to prevent and end youth homelessness. As we’ve learned – many youth leave the home because of family discord and or a family crisis. And many of these youth that leave home return home within a week with little or no assistance. To facilitate youth returning home, and to strengthen the family to mitigate any future ejections of the youth from the home, family intervention work needs to be implemented. Family intervention creates a space for families to work on core issues that led to a youth leaving the home while the family is in a supportive environment. Through counseling, meetings, and other formats – families are provided an opportunity to improve their communication skills, decrease the impact of trauma a youth has experienced, identify a circle of social and community supports, and identify other resources that may be needed. These resources may include financial assistance, housing assistance, utility payments, food, mental health or substance abuse counseling – to name a few.
Family intervention is a strategic intervention to link unaccompanied runaway and homeless youth, regardless of age, to their family. Family intervention is an umbrella term that can include discrete strategies such as family reunification, family connecting and family finding. The goal of family intervention can be to return a youth to his or her family, or to connect him or her to a caring adult, or to provide a family with additional resources after a youth has exited a program to keep the family in tact. Research shows that youth who are connected with family have the potential for improved outcomes, and self-sufficiency by decreasing the impact of trauma a youth has experienced.And aftercare services can be a form of family intervention that is provided to a youth and their family, after a youth has exited a program. The purpose is to provide a youth and their family with additional supports and resources such as referrals to community providers, and financial assistance to facilitate a youth’s self-sufficiency and/or to maintain the youth in the home.
Family reunification refers to the process of returning children in temporary out-of-home care to their families of origin . The process is delicate and on-going, and often requires follow up or aftercare services. The needs and strengths of the youth and parents must be assessed individually and as a whole to get to the core of the discord and the goal of reunification.Counseling of the youth, the parents and the family as a whole is at the center of family reunification services. During the counseling sessions the family discusses the issues that led to the youth leaving the home. A formal or informal plan is developed, with the input of the youth and family, to determine when and how the youth will return home, and what supports the family can access in case of a future crisis. Overall, the process of family reunification helps the family in re-building their relationship.Family reunification should only be conducted with buy-in from the youth – and should be youth directed as much as possible. One must remember that several unsuccessful reunifications may occur before a successful one does; therefore, on-going assessments of the youth and family’s safety and well-being, need for additional counseling and resources is always needed.
Family connections are important even if a youth’s parents cannot physically or financially care for them. When this is the case providers ought to ensure that a youth has some sort of relationship with their parents and/or extended relatives. When youth have positive relationships with their family, the youth’s outcomes can improve. These outcomes include a decrease in pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, and a decrease in risky behavior such as substance abuse. Family connections includes a youth and their parents being close in their relationship, a youth feeling loved and wanted, and a youth acknowledging the importance of relationships with family. Family connecting can be facilitated by engaging the youth and parents in activities, on-going and regular phone calls and e-mail exchanges, connection via social media, and the inclusion of family members in milestones such as birthdays, graduations and other celebrations.
When immediate family and supports are seemingly exhausted, Family Finding is a model that is used in child welfare to identify and engage extended family, and fictive kin adults that are important in the life of a youth. The model, which centers around the youth, includes six stages:1. Discovering the family member.2. Engaging the family member in the process.3. Planning for moving forward with reunification and or the family connecting process.4. Decision-Making as to when and how the youth will reunify and connect with the family member moving forward.5. Evaluating – the ongoing well-being and safety of the youth.6. Follow-Up Supports – to keep the family together and connected.Family Finding should be implemented over time, when the youth is ready. Introducing family and non-family members into the life of a youth after a long period of absence can be a delicate process that requires thoughtful case planning. Once a family member has been located, then the process of building relationships needs to occur.
Aftercare services, which can be found in a number of service contexts, such as juvenile justice, child welfare, and homelessness can be formal or informal, depending upon the objective of the intervention. The common thread between the different types of provisions of services of aftercare is the community-based and sometimes in-home focus of the services that have the goal of providing someone with the necessary skills and supports to not re-enter the system from which they exited. These services are viewed as continuous; therefore, planning should begin as early as possible. Aftercareservices can include counseling, referrals to community programs, financial assistance and helping a youth and family to access resources independently.
There are many benefits for implementing family intervention for runaway and homeless youth such as:Ending a homelessness episode;Having a housing destination for a youth;Improving relationships and strengthening a family;Increasing the potential of a youth having positive outcomes; andMitigating future runaway or throwaway episodes.Many of you have witnessed and experienced these benefits for yourselves and therefore can attest to the power of the process when things fall into place.
A number of evidenced-based family intervention models exit and are implemented in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Given that runaway and homeless youth have similar backgrounds and characteristics as runaway and homeless youth (who are often times referred to non-systems youth when they have not had or currently have any involvement with juvenile justice or child welfare) many of these models are promising in being effective for working with runaway and homeless youth and their families. I encourage you all to explore these family intervention models.Project STRIVE will be specifically presented later during this webinar. I now pass things over to Tania Pryce from Youth Services of Tulsa who will discuss family intervention services being done through a continuum of service options.