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Intercept®
for Family Reunification Services

Through Intercept ®, a program of Youth Villages, ACH helps reunite foster children with their families

Intercept helps families reunite with foster children.

Circumstances can overwhelm any family

ACH recognizes that family reunification often takes place during challenging times, as families may be navigating a wide range of crises and complex issues. Successful reunification requires comprehensive support to ensure stability, healing, and long-term success. 

Through the Youth Villages Intercept program, ACH guides families through reunification with intensive support, new parenting and communication skills, and evidence- and strengths-based mental health intervention services.

  • Youth Villages Intercept serves children of any age (infant to age 18) who have serious emotional and behavioral problems or have experienced trauma or family separation.*
  • Family reunification services are six to nine months in duration.

Why is Youth Villages Intercept successful?

Intercept does “whatever it takes” to help children and parents succeed. Specialists bring intensity and focus to a family’s individual challenges.

  • It’s a comprehensive program that includes a therapeutic approach to parenting skills education, school interventions, and development of positive peer groups. It offers extensive help for families and children in accessing community resources and long-term, ongoing support.
  • Family intervention specialists work with both the child and the parents or caregivers to address issues impacting the stability of the family.
  • Intercept includes a comprehensive online database of evidence-based interventions and tools that specialists use to identify drivers of behavior and family issues. They consult with licensed clinicians to develop treatment plans. Plans are continually updated as the family’s skills develop and their needs change.
  • Specialists work in teams with a supportive supervision and consultation process.
  • Outcomes are continually tracked and results analyzed to enhance the program model.
The Intercept Difference

*ACH can only accept referrals for families and children in foster care through Our Community Our Kids.

Questions?

Why does ACH implement the Intercept program?

Intercept is a trauma-informed approach that offers a variety of evidenced-based and research-informed practices that meet the individualized needs of the family and child. The Intercept model includes a systemic therapeutic approach to parenting skills education, school interventions, development of positive peer groups, and extensive help for families and children in accessing community resources and long-term, ongoing support.

The intensity of services is highly successful in helping families achieve and maintain stability so that children can remain in the home and avoid continued interactions with the court, child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health systems.

Program Overview

Benefits of Intercept

Strengthens family well-being.

Intercept supports the child, caregivers, and siblings to improve relationships, build communication skills, and coping strategies.

Builds parenting skills and address emotional/behavioral issues.

ACH specialists partner with families navigating complex emotional, behavioral, and life challenges, and works to keep children safely at home and strengthens family stability.

Addresses broader family challenges.

Intercept helps families with various issues that could otherwise lead to crisis, such as financial difficulties, substance abuse, domestic violence, or struggles with the legal system.

Connects families with community resources.

ACH specialists help families access critical support systems within their community, like schools, medical professionals, and support networks.

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Intercept has helped tens of thousands of youth and families in 20 states since 2006. The Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse rates Intercept as “Well-Supported.”

How does Intercept Work?

ACH family intervention specialists work intensely with only four to five families at a time, allowing them to focus on meeting a child and family’s individual needs. First, our specialists meet with families two to three times each week for sessions in the home that are built around the family’s schedule and convenience. They are on-call 24/7 in case of family emergency. Second, specialists address issues with schools, courts and children’s services that can seem overwhelming. They stand with parents at school or legal meetings and advocate for them as multiple expectations and requirements are met. Finally, these specialists also work with licensed clinicians to build treatment plans and work step-by-step with the family and child as new parenting techniques are learned and interventions change behavior.

A Force for Families

Intercept is an integrated approach to in-home parent skill development that offers a variety of evidence-based practices to meet the individualized needs of a family and child. Intercept is appropriate for families with children of all ages who have serious emotional and behavioral problems or who have experienced abuse and/or neglect. The program specializes in working with children who are at high risk of re-entry into foster care by helping families retain children in their custody.

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Call 817.335.HOPE (4673)

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