Residential Treatment Programs
Foster Care Program Description
FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY SERVICES: Remi Vista has been a licensed provider of foster care services since 1984. Our professional staff select, train and certify families whose homes and lives will provide a stable and positive environment where a child can mature and grow.
ORGANIZATION: Our foster family program is decentralized into many different geographical regions. Each region consists of a Regional Director, a foster care Social Worker, and certified foster families. Our foster family program is also supported by the availability of specialty mental health services. Through such services, Remi Vista is able to provide evidence-based treatment for foster youth, such as interventions modeled after Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and the Oregon Social Learning model for delinquent youth.
PHILOSOPHY: We view our foster family program as the core of all of our therapeutic programs for youth placed in out-of-home care. We believe that, with the addition of specialty mental health services, many youth can be placed in foster care that would otherwise require group home treatment, effectively reducing group home referrals and lengths of stays.
FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY PROVIDES:
1. Careful Selection and Continuing Education: Couples and/or individuals interested in foster parenting go through an in-depth home study, home inspection, and competency training before the Remi Vista Foster Parent certification process is complete. Each region offers monthly continuing education meetings, in which pertinent topics, special speakers, and media presentations keep foster parents informed about the current issues in working with children. These meetings also function as a support group for the foster parents, providing a strong network of encouragement and care; and
2. Professional Support Services and Individualized Counseling: The social work staff regularly visit each of the foster homes to provide support and encouragement, as well as, counseling services to children. Children from birth to age 18 are accepted into our foster homes based on the needs of the child and specialties of the foster family. Treatment needs are assessed and individual treatment goals are established.
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Group Homes Program Description
GROUP HOME SERVICES: The Group Home Services program is Remi Vista’s most intensive milieu treatment program. Remi Vista, Inc. operates an RCL level 12 group home program specifically designed to address the treatment needs of juveniles.
ORGANIZATION: The group home program consists of three homes located in the Redding, California area. Each home can house up to six male residents, ages 12 to 17, who have been identified as needing a highly structured milieu. In addition to this, professionals from the Mental Health Division are assigned to address the identified treatment needs of the group home residents. All group home participants must qualify to receive specialty mental health services.
PHILOSOPHY: Remi Vista, Inc. understands the tragic, but often necessary, nature of placement into a group home. Our philosophy is that if a child’s removal from home and community becomes necessary, it is incumbent upon us to provide an intensive program that facilitates rapid growth and transition back into healthy community functioning. Currently, the average length of stay at a Remi Vista group home is eighteen months. A successful course of treatment can range, however, from one to two years.
CACFS Member
Remi Vista, Inc. is an active member of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services (CACFS) , a statewide association of more than 130 private nonprofit child and family serving agencies committed to providing the highest quality services in the most caring and effective fashion.
THP Program Description
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PLACEMENT PROGRAM (THPP): The THPP is a program designed to prepare foster youth for successful emancipation and independent living in the community. Remi Vista’s Transitional Housing Placement (THP) is an exciting program for youth, who are about to become emancipated / independent. The program is available to 16-18-year-old youth in out-of-home placement through the Juvenile Court (Probation or Social Services), who are participants in the Independent Living Skills program. The report, entitled "The Report on the Housing Needs of Emancipated Foster/Probation Youth," indicated that 65 percent of the 4,355 youth who emancipated from foster care during the 2000-2001 fiscal years were in need of safe and affordable housing. To address this problem, Assembly Bill 1119 (Chapter 639, 2002), was passed to assist counties in their efforts to provide housing for this population (THP-Plus). Assembly Bill 824 (Chaptered 2005), raised the age limit for emancipated youth participating in a THP-Plus program to age 24.
ORGANIZATION: Foster youth, ages 16 to 18, are placed in a home or apartment, where they live without direct adult supervision. The youth participate in a program designed to prepare them for self-sufficiency, including employment skills, money management, home organization, etc. Adult staff are available to the participants at all times for any urgent needs. Specialty mental health services are also available for these youth, who often benefit most from Rehabilitation (skill building) services.
PHILOSOPHY: Recognizing the risks inherent in a program with such minimal supervision, Remi Vista believes that there is an acceptable level of risk given the reality that most foster youth will have to live with very minimal support once they turn 18. It is incumbent upon us to provide a program that allows the young adult in foster care to confront the realities of independent life, and to help them become prepared to face those challenges.
APPLICATION AND ACCEPTANCE PROCESS THPP: Youth submitting applications for admittance will require the approval of their County Probation Officer or Social Worker and the Juvenile Court Judge prior to entering the program.
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