Programs

Children and adolescents aged 10-18 who have severe emotional and behavioral problems (e.g., conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and frequently co-occurring problems such as depression, alcohol or drug use, chronic truancy, destruction of property, domestic violence, or suicidal ideation; program also has been used with teenagers with less extreme behaviors and serves both youth in the community and returning home from an out-of-home placement

Families with children at risk for or with behavior problems, substance abuse problems, or delinquency

Parents involved with Department of Human Services’ Child Protective Services

Families with two- and three-year-old children (families may enter the program with children as young as 16-months) who face multiple obstacles to educational and economic success

Children ages 2.0 – 7.0 years old with behavior and parent-child relationship problems; may be conducted with parents, foster parents, or other caretakers

Pregnant or parenting mothers (up to 12 months postpartum) who have alcohol and/or drug use disorders and their children 0 to 3.

State adoptive families, Guardianship families, kinship families, families who have adopted children through any state foster care system, and resource (foster) families via some services, plus youth. NOTE: Struggling adoptive families or adoptees/fosterees of any kind within the state are not turned away.

Parents who are in substance abuse treatment and recovery; and may have current or past mental health issues and/or trauma

First time, low-income mothers (adolescents and adults, with no set maximum age) and their infants ages birth-2 years

Staff working in child welfare settings, human services, health care facilities, and educators

Sibling groups of 2 or more children from infancy through seventeen years of age who are in the custody of the state; youth older than 14 must be part of a sibling group; ideally children and families newly involved in the foster care system or possibly have re-entered the foster care system due to disrupted adoptions or have transferred from another agency

Youth, 12 to 17 years old, with possible substance abuse issues who are at risk of out-of-home placement due to antisocial or delinquent behaviors and/or youth involved with the juvenile justice system and their parents/caregivers (some other restrictions for youth exist, see the Essential Components section for more details)