Boys Town South Florida

In our mission to change the way America cares for her children and families, we provide a continuum of care that strengthens them in mind, body and spirit. Our integrated continuum of family services includes these programs at Boys Town South Florida:

Boys Town offers an integrated continuum of services that provides children and families with the right care in the right service at the right time. This system is linked in philosophy and in the methods used. To support this integrated continuum, certain fundamental principles, values, and services must cut across all levels of these services and programs. Some of the more important include:

Spirituality/Religious
Helping children and families build a strong spiritual and religious foundation is an important part of Boys Town’s mission. Positive character traits like respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, caring, and citizenship provide the framework for a child’s value education.

Medical Care
Boys Town owns and operates the Boys Town National Research Hospital, which provides clinical and surgical services to patients from Boys Town’s own programs and for children and families across the country.

Education Services
Education is integral to providing effective treatment for children. In many of the Boys Town residential programs, specialized educational services are embedded within the programs.

Care Coordination
Boys Town attempts to provide the right services to children and families at the right time and in the right program. Boys Town’s Care Coordination programs provide intensive case management services for children in a variety of settings or levels of care.

Family Preservation Services
Family Preservation Services is a short-term, six- to eight-week, intensive, in-home program designed to prevent imminent out-of-home placement and keep families together. A Family Consultant spends up to 20 hours a week in a family’s home and community to help parents provide a safe, healthy environment for their children. The Family Consultant focuses on family strengths, helping the family to become self-sufficient and improve parenting techniques. The Family Consultant not only provides interventions in the family’s own home and community, but also links the family to community resources needed to maintain stability. Family Consultants are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Family-Centered Services
Family-Centered Services is an early intervention program designed to treat and address youth and family problems at home or school. The main goals of this program are to build family strengths, teach new skills, and reduce out-of-home placement of children. This program is for families who need supportive services to address high-risk situations and to prevent early issues from becoming a crisis. Family-Centered Services is also utilized to reduce delinquency or to make court involvement less necessary. Trained Family Consultants offer in-home counseling and skill development to children and families by providing teaching and instruction on specific skills and competencies. Family Consultants are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and work directly with families two to four hours a week for three to six months. Family assistance includes focusing on the child’s behavior and improving parenting and family problem-solving skills, as well as linking families to needed family services.

Care Coordination Services
Care Coordination Services provide intensive case-management services. In cooperation with local service agencies, Boys Town’s trained consultants work with families to help them build and maintain family stability, develop quality-parenting skills, and identify and access appropriate community services. Boys Town consultants are available to families 24 hours a day, seven days a week for crisis support.

Palm Beach County provides In-Home Family Services and Care Coordination Services to up to 300 families at a time, 1100 each year.
Broward County provides In-Home Family Services to up to 25 families at a time, 120 each year.
Miami-Dade County provides In-Home Family Services to up to 9 families at a time, 70 each year.

School and Family Support Services
School and Family Support Services provide screening and early detection of childhood behavior problems at participating South Florida schools. Early intervention is provided to help children and their families learn skills and strategies that will support success in the school, home and community. The Primary Project program is offered at select schools and provides eligible children with in-school support.

Boys Town National Hotline (800.448.3000)
The Boys Town National Hotline was established in 1989 and receives more than 400,000 calls every year. Trained, professional counselors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Callers’ problems range from relationship and parental discipline issues to depression and suicide. In crisis situations, counselors assist callers and provide community resources and emergency intervention. The Hotline provides referrals to agencies throughout the United States and responds to anyone in need of assistance, with a special focus on children and families. Anyone in a crisis situation, especially children and families, can call 800.448.3000 for help anytime.

Parenting.org
Parenting.org is an online resource for parents that offers tips, advice, resources, and guidance. More than 50,000 parents view this online resource every month. This Web site (www.parenting.org) is a free service containing practical skill-based materials and information for parents and caregivers of children of all ages.