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Alabama Therapeutic Foster Care Providers Association Alabama Providers Specializing in Therapeutic Foster Care Services |
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The theory underlying Therapeutic Foster Care is that properly trained foster parents who receive professional support and are more appropriately compensated can care for children that are more difficult.
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ATFCPA THE THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE PROVIDERS HAVE FORMED AN ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE MORE CONSISTENT AND QUALITY TREATMENT SERVICES.
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The Therapeutic Foster Child Alabama has over 5,000 foster children, and each one of these children has a history of abuse and neglect. In order to enter the foster care system, a child must, by necessity, go through serious emotional or physical trauma. The incidence of emotional and behavioral disturbance is understandably high in foster children. |
Therapeutic Foster Care The goal of Therapeutic Foster Care is to treat emotionally and behaviorally disordered children in a home-like environment to increase their level of life functioning and improve their chances of returning to their biological families, being adopted, or achieving independent living.
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Therapeutic Foster Care serves children who have been removed from their biological parents by the Department of Human Resources due to abuse or neglect and who are diagnosed as emotionally or behaviorally disturbed.
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Treatment is provided to the therapeutic foster children by their foster parents under the supervision of trained professional staff.
Therapeutic Foster Care has grown from 4 providers with contracts to service 16 foster children to a statewide network of 14 providers caring for over 800 emotionally and behaviorally disordered children. The ability to offset costs through the Medicaid Rehabilitation option makes Therapeutic Foster Care an economical placement option.
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Therapeutic Foster Care is a union of two different modalities of care for abused children, combining aspects of residential treatment programs and traditional foster care.
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Therapeutic Foster Parents Therapeutic foster parents are carefully selected based on their demonstrated stability, warmth, empathy, and caring attitude toward children.
A matching process enables the treatment team to identify the needs of the therapeutic child and the strengths of the prospective therapeutic foster parents.
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Therapeutic Foster Care is a relatively recent form of out-of-home care developed in the mid 1970s.
Therapeutic Foster Care began in Alabama in 1989 with the awarding of 4 separate contracts to 4 agencies designed to develop 16 Therapeutic Foster Care homes for 16 foster children. |
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SPECIALIZED THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE SERVICES |
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Email: ATFCPA |
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Pre-placement visits with foster parents