AGENCY TESTIMONY
Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) model
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ACS has implemented the Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) model to provide more comprehensive support for children in foster care and their foster parents.
- EFFC blends regular family foster care and family-based therapeutic foster care into one program
- Sociotherapists (behavioral specialists) are part of every case planning team
- New, more robust therapeutically responsive foster parent training (TRIP) is provided
- Focus on supporting foster parents to respond to the needs of children who have experienced trauma
Jess Dannhauser
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For family based foster care, we created the enhanced family foster care model, which blended our prior regular family foster care and family based therapeutic foster care into one program that provides more therapeutic support for children who need them so that sociotherapists, also called behavioral specialists, are part of every case planning team.
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EFFC also uses a new, more robust, therapeutically responsive foster parent training notice trip so foster parents can respond to the need of children youth in care who have experienced trauma and have more complex needs.
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ACS works closely with our foster care providers to focus on identifying and supporting kin, recruiting and training foster parents, and providing robust supports to foster parents so we have high quality certified foster homes for the children in our care.
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We're also focused on enhancing case planning staff's capacity to assess for safety and risk while all while also focusing on caregivers' readiness for unification.