Catholic charities operates the functional family therapy programs which provides home based family therapy services to at risk youth ages 11 17.
Functional family therapy nyc.
Fft is systematic evidenced based manual driven family based treatment program which is successful in treating a wide range of problems affecting families including drug use and abuse conduct disorder mental health concerns truancy and related family problems and their families in a wide range of multi ethnic multicultural and geographic contexts.
Serves adjudicated adolescents ages 11 through 16 and their families or families who are at risk of their children being placed in foster care because of abuse and or neglect.
Comprehensive wholistic individualized and evidence based care thomas l.
Each youth is carefully matched to foster parents and the treatment team develops a treatment plan specific to the needs of the youth.
A typical treatment process consists of 4 months of weekly at home sessions.
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Fft llc is the model s training and dissemination organization.
Functional family therapy fft program offers a therapeutic family based prevention and intervention program that averages 12 16 sessions and is intended to improve mental health outcomes for at risk adolescents and their families.
Treatment family foster care is a research informed multi tiered team approach to rebuilding family relationships.
Functional family therapy was founded in the 1970s by dr.
Our programs support the diverse needs of the youth and families we serve in each location.