Intensive Family Preservation is a short-term, highly intensive, home-based service designed to protect, treat and support Northeast Tennessee families in Carter, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington with at least one child at risk of placement in state custody.

   The program helps families develop new skills, learn anger management, parenting skills, and provides therapeutic services, alcohol & drug education, referral and counseling.

   Coordinators get to know you and your family in an effort to assist you. Services are designed to fit the unique needs of the family. Some of the services you coordinator may provide include:

• Develop service plan with time-limited goals

• Help families develop new skills, even
   providing outlets for stress or recreation

• Provide anger management or parenting skills

• Provide therapeutic services, including
   adolescent alcohol and drug education and/or
   a referral for counseling

• Coordinate additional services with Frontier
   Health such as respite and outpatient therapy
   or provide a referral to other outside agencies
   as needed

• Provide intervention and advocacy on behalf of
   the client/family with schools, social service
   agencies, community services resources and
   other appropriate entities

   Intensive Family Preservation is available to reunify a family with a child has been in and out of home placement, and this level of intervention is needed to help the child return home and successfully remain there.

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