In the Home
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Any Service You
Need, We Can Provide It
| How Does it All
Work? |
The One Stop Shop
We Provide Life
Skill Classes for Teens |
We Provide Emergency 24/48 Hour In
Home Evaluations
 IN
THE HOME
Our goal is to serve
children by ensuring their safety and preventing their
unnecessary removal from the home.
WHEN THE FAMILY IS
DIVIDED
Our goal is to reunify
the family through intensive in-home services that not
only reconcile, but also strengthen and educate in order
to create a healthy and loving family once reunited.
WE OFFER “ONE STOP
SHOP!”
• The most Comprehensive
Counseling Solutions available; from the most detailed
CCFA through reunification or permanency. Every service
provided!
• Psychological and
Psychiatric Evaluations
• Emergency Home
Evaluations (24/48 hrs)
• Individual, Family, &
Marriage Counseling
• Certified Substance Use
Assessments & Counseling
• Grief & Bereavement
Counseling
• Certified Parenting,
Anger Management, & Domestic Violence Classes
• Mentoring & Academic
Tutoring
• Life Skills for Teens
• All Transportation &
Supervision Services
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ANY SERVICE YOU
NEED, WE CAN PROVIDE IT!
WE SERVE
• Families with children
living in an unstable environment.
• Families and children
with a history of emotional, psychological, and physical
neglect and abuse.
• Families and children
with a history of disruptive and defiant behaviors.
• Families with children
that are involved in the foster care or juvenile justice
system.
• Families with children
living in a single parent home.
• Families with a history
of domestic violence and substance use.
• Families and children
desiring to overcome traumatic experiences and
unexpected obstacles.
• Families and children
desiring to have healthy, loving, and functional
relationships.
WE WILL
• Provide a “ONE STOP
SHOP” treatment program specifically designed to meet
ALL of the needs of each family.
• Strive to preserve and
reunify families in need.
• Strive to educate and
strengthen families so they are better prepared to care
for and protect their children.
• Strive to prevent abuse
and/or neglect of children and adolescents.
• Commit ourselves to the
families we serve, while maintaining a professional
relationship.
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HOW DOES IT ALL
WORK?
CCS is an authorized
provider that consistently delivers quality, competent
care to the identified individual until reunification or
permanency.
Our in-home counseling
and behavioral intervention services are initiated by
working closely with not only the intended recipient of
the services, but just as importantly by talking with
parents, other caregivers, and teachers in order to
better assess and understand the various known and
unknown contributing factors.
Upon receiving your
wrap-around referral, the case is staffed and counseling
and behavior intervention services are specifically
designed to meet the various needs of each family.
CCS counseling and
behavior intervention services are normally more
intensive at the beginning of treatment, but typically
tend to decrease over time as the individual or family’s
strengths and coping skills develop.
CCS wrap-around services
are administered through a team approach that utilizes
the skills and strengths of licensed psychologists,
psychiatrists, licensed social workers, licensed
professional counselors, and other paraprofessional
mental health staff in a concerted effort to help reduce
negative, acting-out behaviors, while increasing
positive, healthy behaviors.
CCS counseling and
behavior intervention services are family-focused and
delivered primarily in the individual’s home or other
locations in the community 2-3 x per week. It is very
important to note that behavior changes over time; it is
not an event.
CCS provides the
participating agency with progress notes and email
updates on each client on a weekly basis. The progress
notes are written from a clinical perspective, with
identifiable and measurable objectives. They are written
from a clinical perspective, but they are still easily
understood. What this means to you is that you will no
longer have to ask, “What did the therapist actually do?
What did we pay for?”
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THE "ONE STOP-SHOP!"
WE ARE PROUD TO BE
CALLED THE “ONE-STOP-SHOP"! What this means to you
is that you no longer have to send several referrals to
different providers to take care of the same client. It
is not only confusing for you, but it is also definitely
frustrating for your client to be involved with multiple
people from multiple agencies.
The “One-Stop-Shop"!
We are proud to announce
that we are authorized to provide all of your service
needs, beginning with a fully integrated Comprehensive
Child and Family Assessment (CCFA).
The purpose of a CCFA is
to assist in developing a service plan or a strategy for
practical intervention that addresses the major factors
affecting a child's safety, permanency, and well-being.
CCS is authorized to provide the highest quality and
most detailed CCFA’s for DFCS agencies throughout the
State of Georgia.
Our staff is authorized
to complete CCFA’s after receiving 16 hours of Back to
Basics and Advanced Training provided by the Department
of Human Resources.
Throughout the CCFA
process, our professionally trained staff assesses areas
that include, but are not limited to:
• Familial behavioral
patterns over time
• Identifying family
strengths
• Identifying protective
factors
• Identifying family and
community resources that can support the family's
ability to effectively address areas of concern and
better protect the children.
• Identifying the various
issues and concerns of the child and family that may
affect the safety, permanency, and well-being of the
child.
• Identifying
contributing factors such as domestic violence,
substance use, mental health issues, chronic health
problems, and poverty.
• Identifying how the
family members perceive the problems
• Identifying the effect
of maltreatment
Although a complete
CCFA includes the Clinical Assessment, the Psychological
or Developmental Evaluation, the Medical Evaluation, and
the Educational Evaluation, our professionally trained
staff ensures that the following areas are also
included:
• Family Team Meeting
• Multi-Disciplinary
Meeting
• Medical Screening and
Assessment
• Dental Screening
• Developmental
Assessment / Psychological Evaluation
• Educational Assessment
• Adolescent Assessment
(Independent Living Planning)
• Match Profile
Instrument
• Family/Relative Home
Evaluation
• Genogram
• Form 419 (Background
Information for State Agency Child)
And, once the CCFA has
recommended the types of services required to assist the
family and child(ren), CCS is there to provide ALL of
the wrap-around services you need! We are the
“ONE-STOP-SHOP!”
We Provide Foster Care
& Child Welfare Services:
•Multiple Licensed
Psychologists to provide fast Psychological Evaluations
& Parental Fitness Assessment (s) with parent-child
observation and scales. Feel comfortable using licensed
psychologists who identify with your clients’ culture
and background.
• Psychiatric Evaluations
& Medication Assessment
• Certified Drug and
Alcohol Assessments
• On-Site Random Drug
Screens; Certified Analysis by Quest Diagnostic
Laboratory
• Home Evaluations
(Emergency- 24/48 hours)
• In-Home Counseling
• Certified Parenting
Classes
• Parent and Behavioral
Aides
• Certified Anger
Management
• Transportation with or
without Supervision
• Case Management
Services
• Certified Domestic
Violence Classes
• Crisis Intervention to
Prevent Disruption / Placement Preservation
• Supervised Visitations
by Professionally Trained Staff
• Life Skills & Mentoring
for Teens
• Academic Tutoring
Psychotherapy,
Counseling, & Psycho-educational Classes
• Child, Adolescent,
Adult Individual Therapy
• Family & Couples
Counseling
• Group Psychotherapy
• Certified Parenting &
Anger Management Classes
• Certified Domestic
Violence Classes
• Certified Substance
Abuse Assessments & Counseling
• Certified Domestic
Violence Assessments & Treatment
• DV Treatment for the
Perpetrator
• DV Treatment for the
Victim
Certified Anger
Management Assessments & Treatment
• 8-week
• 10-week
• 12-week
Certified Substance
Use Assessments & Treatment by our Certified Substance
Abuse Professionals (CCS, SAP, ADAPCP)
• 6-week
• 8-week
• 12-week
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We Provide Life
Skills Classes for Teens
Dealing with adolescents
and teens in foster care is often very difficult; they
have been abused, neglected, and emotionally hurt by
people they have trusted. As a result, many of these
children and young adults often demonstrate very defiant
and oppositional behaviors, exhibit low self-esteem,
have poor academic performance, engage in high-risk
behaviors such as using drugs and having unprotected
sex, and often have a very difficult time understanding
how today’s decisions result in tomorrows consequences.
With these children and young adults facing so many
issues, it can be very difficult for foster parents and
DFCS workers to reach them.
However, at CCS we
understand that these children and young adults have
grown up in dysfunctional households and have often been
emotionally and physically abused. The fact is, these
children and young adults’ behaviors have been shaped by
many years of dysfunctional thinking and behaviors—and,
they have every right to be angry at the world.
Therefore, we set the
proper expectations with not only the children and young
adults, but also the foster parents and DFCS staff,
providing an understanding that “change” is something
that happens over time; unfortunately, it is often
expected to be an “event.”
Many of the CCS staff
have come through the DFCS or DJJ system and have
experienced similar backgrounds as these children and
young adults in care; yet, despite enduring similar
situations, our staff chose to take responsibility for
their actions and utilize the tools and resources
available to help them reach their goals-- despite
sometimes overwhelming obstacles and staggering odds.
Thus, many of our
professionally trained staff are able to integrate their
academic foundation with their personal experiences to
provide comprehensive LIFE SKILLS training with a
real-world perspective for these children and young
adults.
What this means to you is
that you can be confident that our professionally
trained staff have not only read about the challenging
issues facing teens today, but many have personally
experienced these same issues and now have the
credibility these children and young adults are looking
for when contemplating change.
Our LIFE SKILLS
CLASSES include, but are not limited to:
• Mentoring For Success
• Managing Your Anger
• Respecting Authority
Figures
• Resolving Conflicts
without Violence
• Effectively Expressing
Yourself
• Self-Esteem & Character
Development
• Choices, Goal Setting,
& Consequences
• Respecting the Opposite
Sex
• Sexual Awareness, Birth
Control, & STD’s
• Gang Violence & Drug
Use
• Other Life Skills
Issues & Concerns
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We provide EMERGENCY 24/48 hour
Home Evaluations For Relative and
Foster Placement
Although you should
typically receive your home evaluation within 7 business
days, we do know that there are times when you need it
“yesterday”-- Thus, when the relative or foster parents
are willing and available, we can complete an emergency
home evaluation with the same high-quality and detailed
information for you within 24-48 hours. That’s what we
do!
When relatives or other
individuals are identified as willing placement
resources, we know that our concern is still to protect
the child’s welfare.
Thus, our professionally
trained staff assesses the home for safety and space
requirements and ascertains whether the relative
genuinely wants to provide care for the child. The fact
is, in some cases relatives are motivated by the burden
of guilt from other family members, while in other cases
relatives are motivated by the thought of receiving a
monetary stipend each month from DFCS.
However, when a relative
is identified as a possible placement resource, our
professionally trained staff assesses the relative's
understanding of why the child was removed and placed
into foster care. It is critically important that the
relative does not blame the child for "causing these
problems" because such thoughts, verbalized or simply as
an attitude, are often very damaging to the placement
child in terms of guilt, depression, anxiety, and other
non-identifiable behavioral problems.
In fact, if the relative
has a negative view of the situation or a negative
attitude towards the abusive/neglecting parent, such
household dynamics are dysfunctional and often
negatively influence the child’s attitude towards that
parent. Therefore, we try to assess and encourage
relatives to refrain from denigrating the parent to the
child.
Furthermore, our
professionally trained staff must assess the relative's
willingness to utilize and seek outside resources
including social service caseworkers and therapists as
needed, as well as assess the relative's style of
discipline. Understanding the relative’s style of
parenting and discipline is also critical because family
members often learn and use similar child rearing and
disciplinary techniques.
Our Home Evaluations
include, but are not limited to:
• 7 Business Day
Turn-Around (w/ cooperating families)
• Detailed Home Visit
Report with color pictures of the rooms within the home
• Verifiable References
and Collateral information assessment
• Fingerprint Card
Submission
• Local and National
Criminal Background Check
• On-Site Drug Screens;
Certified Analysis by Quest Diagnostic Laboratory
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