A Focus on Quality

Each we serve deserves the highest quality of service available. Services are overseen by our clinical team to ensure that each child’s care is effective and makes use of their natural strengths and abilities. Using best practices from our Vistas model and our rigorous quality improvement standards, we make certain each child’s treatment is thorough, safe and effective. Our experienced quality improvement team performs regular audits to ensure we comply with all and national requirements for providing behavioral services to children at risk and their . This is used to continually improve our services.

In addition, the Family Vistas service evaluation process, Rules of the Road, assesses staff interventions and ensures the trauma-informed service components of the Family Vistas model are performed and documented at prescribed intervals to provide the best possible outcome for children in our care.

About The MENTOR Network

The MENTOR Network is a national network of local health and services providers offering an array of quality, -based services to adults and children. The Network’s Therapeutic programs are part of a continuum of personalized services for children with behavioral and emotional challenges and their families. Services Nurturing Support for Children after Trauma may include: • Transition to Adulthood Services • After-School Programs The MENTOR Network’s Family Vistas model emphasizes the healing effects that • Wraparound Services • Services nurturing relationships can have and offers clinical interventions that are viewed • Juvenile Offender Services • Intensive In- Services through the lenses of trauma, separation, loss and grief.

All of the children and adolescents we serve have experienced trauma, either ® through , neglect or witnessing violence. We also recognize that entering ® foster care can be a traumatic experience, causing feelings of anxiety and fear as children leave behind and all that is familiar to them. Our trauma-informed ® Family Vistas supports are designed to make this transition as smooth as possible. The MENTOR Network’s Therapeutic Foster Care Model To learn more about how The MENTOR Network can make a difference for a child in your community, visit www.thementornetwork.com to fi nd a location near you.

Copyright © 2013 The MENTOR Network all reserved. The MENTOR Network® and Family Vistas® are service marks of our Company. ® ® Therapeutic Foster Care Helping Children Map a Positive Life Direction Strengthening Family When it is not possible for children to live Our Therapeutic Foster Care program is based on our trauma-informed, evidence- Relationships with their biological families, The MENTOR informed clinical model, Family Vistas, which recognizes that every child walks his or 5 PHASES OF SERVICE Network’s Therapeutic Foster Care programs her own path, with a unique life vision. Believing that all behavior is a child’s way of Positive relationships are key to a child’s development offer them safe, nurturing where they communicating about their and experiences and that positive relationships are and healing, and Mentors are agents of change. Using can heal and grow. catalysts for growth and change, we help children positive goals for their life journey. evidence-based and evidence-informed tools, we help Pre-Service: Assessment the child develop nurturing relationships in their foster We carefully match children with foster Each child is supported by a dedicated treatment team, led by a masters-level clinician, The child's treatment team performs a who coordinates treatment, performs home visits and ensures that the child receives the family and, if appropriate, their family of origin or with Comprehensive Clinical Assessment and parents who we call Mentors. Mentors are other caregivers. We help the child to strengthen their CANS, trauma version, and creates an service and supports they need in to be successful. In addition, Mentors complete individualized treatment plan. caring adults from all walks of life who provide ability to form healthy, nurturing relationships through a helping hand, a home and a family. With our RELATE skill development course, which educates them on the special needs of children who have experienced trauma. modeling and teaching, them to develop the support of their Mentors, children recover positive relationships with family and other important Phase 2: Stabilization from trauma and overcome behavioral people in their lives. challenges in a supportive therapeutic Assessing Needs and Strengths The child adjusts to the new Mentor home. The treatment team identifies the environment designed to: The methods used to support children in choosing a Through a Comprehensive Clinical Assessment and an outcomes-based measurement positive life path include: child’s natural strengths. • Reduce symptoms of trauma tool called the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment— trauma version—our dedicated team develops an individualized plan. The plan includes • Motivational Interviewing—Staff engage the child • Help ensure stability in the foster home and family in envisioning a positive future and the Individualized MENTOR Assessment and Planning Process (IMAPP), which is a Phase 3: Capacity Building • Develop more positive family relationships developing their own motivation to make positive blueprint that guides the treatment team including the child’s Mentor in supporting the The child and family build coping, • Increase well-being child toward his or her goals. The plan may also include: changes. social and relationship skills. The treatment team adjusts the treatment • Achieve permanence (family reunifi cation, • Individual, group and • Individualized skill-building activities • Skill Building—The child builds skills related to plan to meet changing needs. adoption, etc.) • Life Books, where children keep • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy treatment goals, such as social skills. important memories • 24/7/365 crisis support • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy—Children have Phase 4: Mastery What is a Family therapy sessions with a clinician specially trained in The child and family apply new skills trauma care, if indicated. For one child, family may mean biological and begin transitioning toward the child's permanency goal parents and . For another, it may When It’s Time to Go Home • Intensive Case Management—To ensure all (reunification, adoption, etc). mean , teachers or foster necessary services and supports are in place so that parents. The MENTOR Network supports Family Centered Treatment®, a best-practice, all the children in our care are successful. every member of the child’s expanded evidence-based method of in-home Phase 5: Transition • Shared —Staff and Mentors actively family—whoever the child considers family, treatment, offers extra support through The child transitions into the new living including members of the larger community, family-focused therapy and skillbuilding in engage the family in the process of parenting. arrangement. Staff celebrate with such as the child’s school, church or other the home. After leaving foster care, children When that is not possible, they with the child the child and family on their success. partners—in building nurturing relationships may transition back to their family of origin or to understand and value the importance of family that help the child heal and thrive. be adopted by their Mentor or other families. in their life. This allows the child to feel a sense of Young people over 18 may transition to emotional safety and support as all the adults in their ® Family Vistas Model independent living. expanded family work together to help them heal. Because Children Belong in Families.