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intervention/treatment.

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adoption.

ACH partners with Child Protective Services to find adoptive families for children. ACH will provide services for families until adoption is finalized. ACH also provides post-adoption support, as needed.

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funding partner: Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

behavioral care.

Therapeutic residential services for children, ages 4-12, with moderate to severe behavior problems. Provides safe and structured residential care that teaches adaptive behaviors, supports successful child development, promotes family reunification where possible, and secures the optimal level of living for each child.

funding partner: Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

2010 outcomes:

  • Residents are safe from abuse/neglect while in care. Goal 98% Actual 100%
  • Residents have visits with parents or significant others at least twice a month. Goal 80% Actual 90%
  • Residents are discharged to less restrictive environments consistent with their permanency plan. Goal 90% Actual 100%
  • School-age youth remain in school or graduate while receiving services. Goal 80% Actual 100%

community resource coordination group (CRCG).

Collaboration of local, public and private agencies, and parents to meet the needs of children and youth, through 21 years old, who have severe emotional disorders or other disabilities. CRCG members combine their agency resources and knowledge to suggest treatment alternatives for families whose needs can be met only through interagency coordination and cooperation.

To contact the CRCG Coordinator and receive an application to have a child or youth staffed at a CRCG meeting, please email CRCG@achservices.org or call 817.886.7177 and leave your contact information for the CRCG Coordinator.

funding partners: Cook Children's, Fort Worth Independent School District, Lena Pope Home, MHMR of Tarrant County, Millwood Hospital, Santa Fe Adolescent Services, Tarrant County Juvenile Services

2010 outcomes:

  • Families initially seeking services are diverted from the state's residential treatment center to local services in Tarrant County. Goal 75% Actual 87%

emergency youth shelter.

Offers homeless and runaway youth, ages 10-17, emergency housing and care while ACH works to reunite them with their families, or find safe and meaningful alternative living arrangements.

funding partners: MHMR of Tarrant County; Tarrant County Community Development; Texas Department of Family and Protective Services; Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families; United Way of Tarrant County

2010 outcomes:

  • Clients' basic needs are met within one hour of admission. Goal 95% Actual 100%
  • Residents are safe from abuse/neglect while in care. Goal 98% Actual 100%
  • Youth have a safe and stable place to live at discharge. Goal 90% Actual 94%

families together.

Parent-child transitional housing. Offers homeless, single-parent families a transitional housing environment while they work to overcome the crisis that led to their homelessness and return to independent living. Short-term, basic and therapeutic services in safe residential care are provided to maintain the family unit, promote and encourage family independence within 9-12 months, promote and encourage long-term self-sufficiency and family stability.

funding partner: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

2010 outcomes:

  • Families receive permanent private or public housing within 12 months of entering the program. Goal 70% Actual 90%
  • Families successfully completing the program remain together six months post-discharge. Goal 80% Actual 100%
  • Parents enhance or maintain their income within nine months of entering the program. Goal 80% Actual 80%

foster care.

Basic and therapeutic foster care. Recruitment, training and licensing of foster parents to meet the physical, cultural, emotional and spiritual needs of the children in the care of Child Protective Services.

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funding partner: Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

2010 outcomes:

  • Children who are part of a sibling group are placed in the same home. Goal 80% Actual 92%
  • Children are safe from abuse/neglect while in care. Goal 98% Actual 100%
  • Residents transfer between ACH group and foster homes no more than two times. Goal 90% Actual 100%
  • School-age clients remain in school or graduate while receiving services. Goal 80% Actual 95%

LIFE project.

Learning Independence from Experience (LIFE). Housing program for homeless young adults, ages 18-21. Provides participating young adults a safe, stable place to live. Program staff partner with the young adults in order to help them achieve permanent housing and develop long-term life skills and goals.

funding partner: Tarrant County Community Development

2010 outcomes:

  • Clients achieve at least one personal goal that helps fulfill his/her personal mission statement. Goal 75% Actual 100%
  • Clients develop a support system or connect with a mentor. Goal 75% Actual 100%
  • Clients with a planned discharge will exit into permanent housing. Goal 75% Actual 100%

wedgwood residential program.

Offers  safe, stable and nurturing homes for children and youth, ages 4-18, who are unable to live with their families. Provides basic and therapeutic services in safe residential care that assists children, youth and their families through crises, promotes family reunification where possible, and secures and/or provides the optimal level of living for each child.

funding partner: Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

2010 outcomes:

  • Residents are safe from abuse/neglect while in care. Goal 98% Actual 100%
  • School-age youth remain in school or graduate while receiving services. Goal 80% Actual 100%
  • Children who have attended a semester of school while a resident earn an overall average of 75 or higher on semester report cards. Goal 80% Actual 87% 

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