Individual Service Options

Individualized Service Options (aka ISO) is a high intensity, multi-faceted program designed to serve families. The program tailors a variety of therapeutic, social and community-based services to the specific needs of a child and family, and strives to create a safe, stable, positive home environment for each child.

GOALS:

• Ensure the safety of children
• Achieve permanence within birth, adoptive, kinship, or foster families
• Keep children connected to their families, communities, schools, and social networks

The program can:

• Support families in their own homes
• Reunify a child with his or her family
• Place the child in a caring foster home
• Provide older youth with the support, education, and skills they’ll need
  to transition to independence

ISO will collaborate with family and referral source to develop a treatment plan that may include:

• Individual/family counseling
• Trauma-focused community based therapy/child-parent psychotherapy
• Respite care
• Crisis intervention/stabilization
• Substance abuse assessments & treatment
• Parenting education and in-home support
• Foster home support
• Short-term placement
• Transitional (independent living) services for older adolescents
• Job readiness assistance for parents and older adolescents
• Monitoring (ensures that a child adheres to court orders re: curfew, school attendance, counseling sessions, etc.)
• Community network