Community-Based Services
Our Approach
At the center of our ministry is love for all of God’s Children.
We believe that children grow and develop best in a nuturing family. We provide strengths based, family-centered services that are rooted in respect and delivered with dignity. Services are guided by a case specific treatment plan with tiem limited goals, which are based on a comprehensive assessment. Outcome data is analyzed to facilitate overall program evaluation and guide program development.
We empower families to develop and demonstrate empathy, meet and maintain basic needs for living, manage resources, develop and maintain integrity, and understand their role in the community. To this end, partnerships are established to work toward the common goal of a healthy, functioning family.
Community-Based Services in Numbers
In an effort to provide extraordinary care and competence, Josiah White’s Community-Based team maintains a caseload of two case managers to twelve cases.
Josiah White’s Community Based team uses a total of six Evidence Based Practices.
Josiah White’s is dedicated to lightening Family Case Managers’ caseloads.
From the outset, Josiah White’s Community-Based team responds to referrals within the day initiates contact with the family within 24 hours, engaging and addressing immediate needs. A Josiah White’s team member will assess the family within five days of referral and combine DCS/probation’s concerns, the team member’s observations, and the family’s goals into their recommendations. Each family’s plan is customized with additional assessments for substance use, domestic violence, mental health, and parenting.
Josiah White’s is dedicated to fully caring for families’ needs.
Whether it is a lack of income, a medical issue, substance use, or housing stability, Josiah White’s is trained for it and will guide the family through. The team is persistent in pursuit of each family, making multiple visits each week. The team builds trust with families because they meet them where they are and when the time comes, tenaciously motivate them toward change.
Offering Healthy Second Chances
Evidence-based Modalities of Care
Families First
The Families First program is carried oout using a 6-phase model within the framework of the Teaching-Family Model. Its basis is in cognitive behavioral approaches, social learning theory, modeling, and a strength-based emphasis on actively teaching and roleplaying skills that promote positive client and family outcomes.
Community Advocacy Project
The Community Advocacy Project (CAP) is an evidence-based program which empowers survivors of domestic violence. The use of advocacy skills is used to move clients toward self-advocacy as they grow to recognize their inherent worth.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The Beck Institute is the worldwide training center for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Clients struggling with mental, emotional, and substance related concerns will work alongside Josiah White’s therapists who have received post-graduate training toward becoming a Beck Institute CBT Certified Clinician. These therapists address addiction patterns and emotional and cognitive distortions with the family, right in their own home.
The Period of Purple Crying
The Period of PURPLE Crying is a program aimed at reducing anger leading to Shaken Baby Syndrome. As a Period of PURPLE Crying Affiliate Partner, Josiah White’s staff educates parents of infants on normal crying, cultural attitudes, and the use of coping strategies. Josiah White’s implementation of this program works in conjunction with local hospitals who also provide this training. Parents are also provided access to Period of PURPLE Crying’s app to watch videos and track crying, feeding, sleep, and diaper changes.
Advanced Motivational Interviewing
Advanced Motivational Interviewing (MI) uses the tracking components of collaborating, evoking, and empathizing with the family. Josiah White’s staff are encouraged to pursue the Advanced Motivational Interviewing certification through the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). MI recognizes that the true power of change rests with the client.
Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety is a present-focused approach to help families struggling with trauma and substance use. The program addresses trauma’s impact in the present without delving into the past. Through this program, families are equipped with over twenty coping skills including grounding to increase the likelihood of long-term sobriety.
Service Overviews
Family Preservation
It is our firm belief that the best place for children to grow is within the loving and secure home of their own family. Josiah White’s Family Preservation is aimed at keeping families together while ensuring safety and partnering with families to meet their own goals and greatest potential. Family Preservation combines elements of counseling and parent education to support families.
Father Engagement
Josiah White’s Fatherhood Engagement Services focus on helping fathers whose children are involved with the Department of Child Services (DCS) strengthen the relationship with their children to improve the safety, stability, wellbeing and permanency of their children.
Home Based Casework
Josiah White’s Home Based Casework services focus assisting the client with case management needs, coping skills, and navigating service systems.
Home Based Therapy
Josiah White’s Home Based Therapy offers structured, goal-oriented therapy in the natural environment to assist in recovering from various stressors, such as: past history of abuse, trauma, past or current mental health disorders, substance use, or other current stressors in an individual’s life.
Josiah White's Process
Once a referral is acknowledged, Josiah White’s team responds within the day. Once accepted, a staff member makes contact within 24 hours to schedule a visit with the family.
A treatment team member arrives within five days to complete an initial comprehensive assessment to guide services.
During the course of the first month, the Josiah White’s team develops rapport while learning the family’s goals.
