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Mental Health-Self Management - Norfolk, Functional Family Therapy/Counseling, Strategic Therapy Associates, Inc.

2428 Almeda Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23513

FFT Eligibility: 1. Ongoing dangerous behaviors or attempts to inflict serious injury on self or others. 2. Increasing and persistent symptoms associated with depression or anxiety that have contributed to decreased functioning in the community. 3. Ongoing substance use or dependency that interfere with the youth's interpersonal relationships and functioning in the community. 4. The youth is returning home from out-of-home placement and FFT is needed as step down service. 5. The youth's successful reintegration or maintenance in the community is dependent upon an approach involving intensive family partnership. 6. There is a family member or other committed caregiver available to participate in this intensive service and supervision at home/community are adequate to ensure a reasonable degree of safety.
Staff working with adults and families in the home are flexible regarding hours they see the clients.

Auxiliary Grants, CSA, Medicaid, Private Insurance

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Description

Focus on assessment and intervention to address risk and protective factors within and outside of the family that impact the adolescent and his or her adaptive development. FFT consists of five major components: engagement, motivation, relational assessment, behavior change and generalization. FFT works primarily with 11- to 18-year-old youth who have been referred for behavioral or emotional problems by the juvenile justice, mental health, school or child welfare systems.

Providing organization

Strategic Therapy Associates

To keep families together and help people resolve the transitions and trauma in their lives. Strategic empowers families with at-risk children to remain intact and become system-free.