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COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS
Vista Maria's community-based programs provide services for high-risk girls
and boys in their home communities. We offer services to the youth and their
families and are dedicated to teaching personal responsibility and communication
skills, providing educational assessment and planning, and helping with employment
readiness. Our community-based program continuum includes:
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NEW! Outpatient Treatment Program: For youth and young adults (ages 11-23) needing a recovery program for substance abuse or who need outpatient mental health services. Weekly/biweekly individual and/or group counseling available by appointment both in-home and on our campus. To refer a youth to our Outpatient Treatment Program, contact the Intake Department at 313-271-3050 ext. 271, 223, or 135 or email jcuschieri@vistamaria.org.
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General Foster Care: Is designed to provide month, case management services for Michigan children who have suffered abuse or neglect and are entering the system for the first time or have been moved from a more intensive program to prepare them for reunification with their birth parents or a permanent home.
- Specialized Foster Care: For children in the child welfare system who have more specialized needs than children in general foster care. This program helps them prepare for reunification with their birth or adoptive parents, or placement in a permanent living arrangement. Treatment Foster Care provides the same services but for deliquent youth who are supervised by Wayne County Care Management Organizations.
- Intensive Supportive Foster Care: For child welfare or delinquent children with severe emotional disturbances who may be exiting from a psychiatric hospital or residential program. We work with a collaborative partner to provide in-home services, training and support to the child, birth family and foster family to enable the child to thrive in the community.
- Youth Assistance Program: A 10-week course for at-risk middle school aged children and their families living in the city of Dearborn Heights. The program offers individual and group sessions that are designed to improve social and conflict resolution skills and also prevent drug abuse and other behaviors that may lead to high school drop out.
For information on how to become a foster parent or to refer a child to a community-based program and services, please contact our recruiting hotline at 313-271-3050, ext. 137. |
