Jefferson Center for Mental Health

Intensive Family Services

Families Together

When there is a serious mental illness in the family this in-home treatment program offers the needed flexibility in terms of intensity, duration and age of children served. Families Together specialists provide intensive support to families in crisis and work to help parents through practical, hands-on coaching in parenting, communication and life skills.

Serves children of ALL ages 0–17
Specializes in working with families where there is a serious mental illness
Flexibility—can work with parents/couples or individuals
Duration is flexible, averaging 3 months, 2 to 10 hours per week, with some capacity for longer term intervention.
Clinical team is available by pager 24/7 for emergencies.
Families Together is based on the highly effective Family Preservation/Homebuilder’s practice-based model.

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