Services
One-to-One Match:
Our flagship program, the One-to-One match, offers long-term psychotherapy to foster-involved children, youth and families, with licensed psychotherapists in their private offices, at no cost.
Our therapists are skilled psychologists and social workers in private practice with expertise in the clinical treatment of attachment-related disorders. Many of our therapists have undertaken post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. All have been screened by our clinical director, and all participate in weekly consultation groups, led by expert clinicians, to gain the support and guidance they need to sustain their work.
We accept referrals from child welfare and social service agencies, community-based providers, legal entities, schools, and unaffiliated individuals, including youth currently in foster care or those who have aged out. Each referral is carefully screened by our clinical director, and if appropriate, matched with one of our volunteer therapists. Once a referral is accepted as a TFC client and a therapist match is made, the therapy proceeds as a private, confidential relationship between therapist and patient, for as long as needed or desired. Youth do not “age out” of TFC; a young person may continue to see a TFC therapist regardless of age or current foster care status.
TFC is temporarily suspending intakes and will not be accepting new referrals until July 2010
Consultation Support Groups:
Our new Consultation Initiative brings TFC’s highly regarded consultation support groups to helping professionals in the Child Welfare field. Consultation support groups offer professionals working in the foster care field an additional opportunity to gain insight by reflecting on their experiences with clients, share the challenges of the work they do, exchange successful strategies with their peers, and learn how to better manage the “crisis-to-crisis” cycle with their clients. Through the Consultation Initiative, a TFC volunteer therapist will facilitate a monthly or bimonthly consultation support group on site, complementing the existing support, supervision and inservice programming that organizations already provide to their staff. The goal of TFC’s Consultation Initiative is to provide child welfare staff with an unstructured, supportive and reflective experience, one that will help them weather their challenging caseloads and sustain their engagement with difficult clients.
We currently offer consultation support groups to the following organizations and participants:
Cardinal McCloskey Services
(Social Workers serving children in foster boarding homes)
Legal Aide Society
(Social Work Borough Supervisors in the Juvenile Rights Division)
Nurse Family Partnership
(Nurse Home Visitors in the Targeted Citywide Initiative)
Learn more about the Consultation Initiative here.
Case Conferences:
Twice yearly, TFC hosts a case conference to examine clinical issues in the psychotherapy of foster-affected youth. These events are free and open to the public. Conferences have covered topics such as the challenges of engagement; including the entire “system of care” in the treatment of foster-involved youth; addressing sexual trauma; and an “inside” look at life in foster care, from young adults raised in the system.
Case Conference Spring 2009 |
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