Intensive Home-Based Services

Few events are more traumatic for children than being removed from their families and entered into the foster care system. This transition affects their physical and emotional health, development, and academic success.

What We Do

Lincoln Families’ Intensive Home-Based Services (IHBS) program provides intensive supports in the home, school, and community for system involved youth to live healthier and more productive lives, as well as supports for families to stabilize and stay together. Teams of skilled and diverse IHBS staff work together with children and families to utilize their strengths and cultural experiences to drive their own individualized plan for success over a nine to 12 month period. Staff also support caregivers in healing from trauma, strengthening parenting skills, understanding child development, and rebuilding family relationships. Services include:

Family-Focused Assessment - Identifying the youth and family’s strengths, cultural factors, and areas for change; then working together to develop a family-driven individualized plan;

Plan Implementation & Coaching - Utilizing culturally responsive evidence-based interventions, working with children and families to learn new behaviors and coping skills;

Coordination of Care - Collaborating with service providers, school personnel, and others to strengthen stability and permanence and connect families with much needed services.

 

Our Why

Many youth and families who come to us are struggling with long-term complex issues including poverty, trauma, homelessness, unemployment or underemployment, substance abuse, mental health, domestic violence, and loss. The added experience of significant loss also disrupts familial attachments and requires our approach, which addresses both the behaviors and deeper underlying wounds caused by complex traumas. The majority of families in our program have received a number of other services, and continue to need additional interventions to support stabilization and skill building.

 

Outcomes

84% of all youth who received services for at least 90 days remained in a stable living environment and/or moved to a lower level care at discharge.

 

Resources

Eligibility and Referrals: IHBS referrals are coordinated through Intensive Care Coordinators through Contra Costa County Behavioral Health Services, representing East, West and Central Contra Costa County. Children and adolescents up to age 21 can receive services who meet all of the following: 1) are beneficiaries of full-scope Medi-Cal; 2) are currently in foster care or at imminent risk of a foster care placement; and 3) have a documented illness or condition that necessitate individualized mental health services.

IHBS Brochure

 

Contact

Dynell Garron
Director Family Strengthening & Youth Services
dynellgarron@lincolnfamilies.org
510.237.4700 x4322

 
 

“The time that my son gets to talk with his Lincoln therapist during his sessions has been tremendously helpful for building his self-confidence and he is now able to express in the correct words how he is feeling. He looks forward to Fridays and reflecting on the week’s end with ‘guy talk’, he calls it.”  

— IHBS parent