Programs accredited by the Teaching Family Association provide a full comprehensive continuum of care:

wraparound and aftercare

supported living and residential habitation

schools: charter, special education, therapeutic boarding

shared family care

qualified residential treatment programs (QRTPs)

psychiatric residential treatment programs (PRTPs)

multi-purpose juvenile homes

intermediate care facilities

in-home and home-based family prevention

indigenous specific support

independent and transitional living

group and family care

emergency shelters

early childhood, early prevention and intervention mental health

day treatment

crisis intervention and Assessment centers

Child and adolescent psychiatric hospitals

 

TFM was founded in partnership in 1967, in collaboration with National Institute for Mental Health, Department of Human Services, and the University of Kansas.

The TEACHING FAMILY ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce that two of our TFA Accredited agencies have been recognized by the Federal Prevention Services Clearinghouse as they just announced that the following interventions have been added to the Clearinghouse, paving the way for any state to add these services to their prevention state plan and receive federal matching IV-E funds:

Families First, Utah Youth Village’s in-home services model
– Well-Supported Rating

On the Way Home, Boys Town’s aftercare services model
– Promising Rating

Each program has been categorized as both Mental Health and as In-Home Parent Skill-Based Programs and Services.

There is a difference between quality and qualified. Quality requires the implementation of evidence-based, researched practice that includes operationalized, professional standards. THIS IS THE TEACHING FAMILY MODEL.