First Home Care

First Home Care believes in working to enable children, adolescents, families and adults to receive the care they need -- in their homes and communities. Our programs reduce the need for hospitalization and out-of-community placement and offer freestanding, independent levels of care; however, they also function as contracted, wraparound services. Using strengths-based and family focused approaches, we develop programs which build on and improve the successes of our clients.

Therapeutic Foster Care Programming
Therapeutic Foster Care families provide for children and adolescents who require out-of-home placement. We offer various differential levels of service tailored to meet the individual needs of our youth. Through the services of specially trained treatment families, the program provides comprehensive, coordinated, cost-effective care in the least restrictive, most normalized environment.

Case Management Services
Case Management serves youth who are transitioning to or from intensive services. Our case managers work with the youth, family, referring agency, and providers to seek the least restrictive and most appropriate environment. We draw on each youth's individual strengths as well as assessment data to determine appropriate placement. Case management services include assessment and evaluation, treatment plan monitoring and development, linkage to community-based services, monitoring of services, advocacy, resource development, and outcomes development.

Home-based Programming
First Home Care's Home-based services offer intensive behavioral health intervention for children, adolescents, adults, and families. Designed to meet the specific needs of the payor and its clients, Home-Based Services augment mental health services delivered in community-based settings. These services include Crisis Intervention and Assessment, Supportive Counseling, Medication Monitoring, Case Management, Education, comprehensive discharge planning and other services designed to address the individual needs of clients/families served. 

Therapeutic Group Home
First Home Care operates group homes for youth who cannot function in the family setting, but who do not require institutional care or residential treatment. Supervised by a clinically trained group home staff, the residents are expected to attend public school or work in the community. The group home staff provides individual and group counseling, training in independent skills, and emphasis on responsibility to self and the group.