Homes and Foster Care

Therapeutic foster homes are homes with a high level of skill in a specialized area and a capacity for an increased level of supervision of foster children.  Therapeutic foster parents agree to provide services and to implement treatment strategies specific to their foster children’s treatment plans.  Therapeutic foster parents must have three years of licensed foster care experience or the equivalent.  They must be willing to collaborate with members of their foster children’s treatment teams to implement home treatment strategies; they are required to keep written documentation regarding children’s behaviors and progress; and they must follow case plans in their homes. Healthy Future Therapeutic Foster Parents work children who are severely emotionally disturbed (SED), as well as their families.  

Healthy Future Therapeutic Foster Care is:

• An intensive rehabilitation and clinical service for children with severely emotionally disturbance that is provided in a licensed and highly trained foster home.

• A service that works to prevent the hospitalization and/or institutionalization of children.

• A service designed to prevent children from being sent out of the State of Alaska or the Juneau community to a more restrictive treatment setting and to assist the child to remain in the community with his/her family and support system in the least restrictive setting possible.

• A service that works to transition children from a more restrictive treatment environment back to their families or their permanent placement.

• A service that assists the child and family to work as hard as possible on treatment goals as well as family reunification and a permanency placement.

• A service that assists the child and family as they work to remove the barriers to returning home and/or a permanent placement.

• A service that provides consistent structure, routine, stability and collaboration with other service providers, treatment interventions to ensure a high quality of care.