Growing Together:  A Continuum of Specialized Foster Care Services

Therapeutic Foster Care:  for children with significant developmental, behavioral, and/or emotional support needs. Service includes: point and level system/behavioral programming, and up to 4 hours of skills training per week. In addition to this, children and their family are assigned a therapist at Family Pathways; Psychiatric Evaluation and medication management are available; these services are billed through MA. Supervised visitation between the parent and child is also coordinated by Family Pathways.

Emergency Placement and Stabilization: short term (30 to 60 days) with assessment of treatment and support needs.

Psychosocial Support Foster Care: Specifically designated for young children with mild developmental, emotional, behavioral, and/or healthcare needs that do not meet the criterion for more extensive placement services.

Medically Fragile Foster Care:

Level I: Child’s medical condition can be controlled through medical supervision and consistent non-specialized care. (failure to thrive, drug addicted infants, broken limb, blind, deaf, non ambulatory, diabetic, medical needs related to abuse or neglect).   

Level II: The child’s condition is not life threatening and can be controlled through a specialized intervention, medical supervision, and consistent care. (colostomy, cerebral palsy, medical or sensory conditions coupled with emotional problems, any condition requiring a medical apparatus).

Level III: Children who may be terminally ill or other debilitating condition that can be managed with some specialized extensive care.

Level IV: Children with acute chronic or permanent medical conditions that require intensive home based medical intervention.

Growing Together:

Providing foster parents trained in behavior modification strategies.  Children also receive psychiatric services, individual and family therapy, a skills trainer, case management and monthly reports.  These reports include child development/improvements, concerns, recommendations and safety contact status for each placement.  Each child receives an individual Service Plan.

Growing Together is designed to support children and youth in their efforts to:

  • Stabilize

  • Address their mental health or medical needs

  • Evaluate their choices

  • Maintain acceptable behavior

  • Refrain from engaging in dangerous behaviors

  • Attend and graduate from high school

  • Interact in constructive age appropriate activities

  • Graduate from placement into productive, healthy living situations

  • Enroll in advanced educational opportunities

Training & Support for Resource Families:

Do you have room in your heart and home to foster a child?

Family Pathways recruits foster (resource) families to participate in this rewarding experience. Our foster parents are a part of a professional team. Foster parents are supported in their efforts through:

Family Pathways will provide continued support for both the foster parent and the child / adolescent.

Please call Family Pathways at 724 284-9440.

Ask to speak to our Recruitment Coordinator.

Monarch Place

100 Brugh Ave ♦ Butler, PA  16001
Phone:  724-284-9440 ♦ Fax:  724-284-9441
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