Services Offered

Designed to assist parents under pressure with life and family stressors. The program consists of three in-home components: Nurturing Parent, Crisis Intervention and Case Management.

Nurturing Parent teaches nurturing parenting skills and shows families how to relieve stress, resolve conflicts and have positive interactions.

Crisis Intervention uses a cognitive behavioral model to stabilize families in crisis and teaches conflict resolution and communication, skills enhancements, stress management, budgeting, and supportive counseling.

Case Management focuses on systemic issues identified as barriers to child safety. Services include linkage to community resources, advocacy, conflict resolution and communication with family’s support network and resources (school, doctor, other agencies, etc..) as needed.

Referrals are accepted from BSO, ChildNet, parents, schools, and other local agencies and community organizations. Families appropriate for referrals are experiencing difficulties parenting children with behavior problems, have been recently reunified and/or have children at risk for abuse or neglect.

Please complete the Referral Form and fax it to 954-764-6458.

We offer temporary foster care services to abused, neglected and abandoned children. Prospective CHS foster parents are thoroughly screened, and their homes are licensed on a yearly basis, with the license specifying how many foster children may be placed in each home. The program offers a 10-week training session for those interested in becoming a foster parent. Ongoing supportive services and monitorings of foster homes are maintained post placement and as needed.

For more information on becoming a foster parent, please call the Recruitment Hotline at 954-453-6469.

Specialized Therapeutic Group Care

The group home provides specialized therapeutic group care for boys in need of intensive rehabilitative services. The home has a 12-bed capacity and is run and operated by trained staff 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The goal of the home is to provide supportive services and care to boys ages 8 to 15 who have been removed from their homes by the Broward County Sheriff (BSO) or ChildNet as the direct result of abuse, neglect, exploitation and/or abandonment. Due to these traumatic experiences and other possible factors, children placed in our facility either have been unsuccessful in a less structured environment or a higher level of care was no longer required. In our homelike, comfortable setting, residents receive advanced care and treatment so they can successfully live in family settings upon completion of the program. The home is named for I. Lorraine Thomas, generous benefactor and wife of the late Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's International, Inc.

For admission information and further program details please contact our Clinical Program Supervisor at 954-453-6400.

Program services are designed to meet the individual needs of each parent/caregiver who has recently had a child removed from the home and has become involved with the child welfare system. Services include in-home individual and family solution-focused brief therapy, domestic violence intervention, substance abuse intervention, parenting education, and case management. Referrals come directly from ChildNet’s Behavioral Health Assessment and Referral Coordinator.

Please complete the Referral Form and fax to 954-764-6458.

Focuses on behavioral health and skill building to maximize client/family potential. Services address needs, strengths and abilities of the client/families in addition to developing effective negotiation skills. In-home Individual and Family Counseling is available to children ages 6 through 17 (or 21 if enrolled in an accredited educational program leading to a high school diploma or its equivalency) who are diagnosed with a mental health disorder and are demonstrating a variety of behavior problems and DO NOT qualify for Medicaid and/or are not involved in the dependency system.

Please complete the Referral Form and fax to 954-764-6458.

Designed to give supportive therapeutic services to children/adolescents who are at pre-adoptive status, families that have recently adopted and families at risk of adoption disruption. Post-placement visits take place with the adoptive family from the time a child is placed in the home until the adoption is finalized. Clinical services are provided by master's-level therapists to reduce family stressors, stabilize the adoptive situation and/or prepare the child for the adoption. 

Please complete the Referral Form and fax to 954-764-6458.

A program designed to provide free services to children under age 18 who DO NOT qualify for Medicaid and/or are not involved in the dependency system. The program serves children residing in Broward County who are experiencing severe emotional/behavioral problems at home and/or school. In-home family counseling sessions focus on behavioral modification, play therapy and behavioral management. Families also receive referrals to community resources.

Please complete the Referral Form and fax to 954-764-6458.

An intensive behavioral therapeutic program designed to provide services to children experiencing severe emotional/behavioral problems at home and/or school who are at risk for a higher level of care. This program serves children in Broward County who qualify for Medicaid and/or are involved in the dependency system. Clinical services utilize solution-focused, cognitive behavioral and play therapy to reduce mental health symptomology and to increase coping skills and level of functioning. Services are conducted in the home or can be accessed in the Therapist’s office. 

Please complete the Referral Form and fax to 954-764-6458.