OMNI Behavioral Health Intensive Family Preservation

OMNI offers a wide range of in-home services for children, adolescents, adults and their families. As specific problems of these children and families vary, services will be tailored to meet client's individual needs.

Intensive family preservation (IFP) services are utilized to be a short term intervention with intensive services taking place in the family home. IFP is utilized to stabilize crisis situations and improve family functioning through the use of skill development and linking both formal and informal supports. IFP services focus on improvement of family functioning through skill acquisition in the areas of parenting, communication, behavior management, and life skills to ensure safety, permanency, and well-being of children in the family home and community. Contact with the family is made within 24 hours of accepting a referral and the provider will be available for the family 24/7 for crisis stabilization and management. Services can include one or two person intervention teams depending on the needs of the family.

Family Support Services are utilized to provide skill development/acquisition to children and families with the establishment of formal and informal supports. The emphasis will be placed on either the parent(s), caretaker(s), or the youth who are in need of skill development/acquisition to control their behavior(s). Family Support Services provided to parent(s)/caregiver(s) focus on areas such as parent participation in child-directed interactions, use of positive social praise, and introduction of parent-directed activities to include daily living activities such as bedtime rituals, toilet training, curfew, consequence, chores, use of appropriate coping skills to manage the parents'/caretakers' behavior, appropriate discipline, or other specific interventions under the direction of a service coordinator or case manager.

Parenting Time is utilized to ensure the safety of the child(ren) while visits occur with the family in accordance to the safety plan. The provider will monitor and assist in interactions and parenting skills.

Community Treatment Aide (CTA) services are supportive and psycho educational interventions provided primarily in the youth's natural environment. CTA services are expected to improve the youth's level of functioning within their environment and to enhance the care giver's ability to manage the youth's behaviors related to their mental health or substance abuse diagnoses. Therefore, this service is delivered primarily to the parent(s)/caregiver(s) interacting with the youth, by a CTA under the direction and supervision of a licensed clinician who simultaneously provides family and individual therapy on a regular basis to the youth and their family.

OMNI's most recent development, Community Based Alternative to Residential Treatment (CBAR) utilizes many of the other services OMNI currently provides. The goal of CBAR is to maintain a child in the community while implementing strategic and clearly defined interventions that focus on safety and community integration. A treatment team, consisting of therapists and additional highly trained staff, will work with the child and the caregivers to help the child acquire skills which can be utilized to function within the community. The approach is short term, intensive and individualized.