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In-Home
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Home Protective Services,
often referenced by the acronym IHPS, is a Philadelphia-based program, in
which the family and the social worker identify, structure and implement
mutually acceptable goals to improve family functioning. Families are taught
skills and the importance of accepting responsibility for their own lives. These
services help to make removal of the child from the home unnecessary or, when
the child is already in foster care, help prepare families for the child's
return home.
The Family Preservation Program in Philadelphia
serves highly-challenged families and children through intense social work
intervention, including: 24-hour a day, seven-day a week accessibility; 10-15
hours of direct family contact a week; and concrete community linkages. The
program helps these families remediate situations in which neglect, poor
parenting, extreme parent-child conflict or substance abuse place the children
at risk, so that removal of the children from the home will not be necessary.
Intensive Family Support
Services help Bucks County families who are experiencing challenges in
meeting their children’s needs for safety and well-being. Through a graduated
service model the program offers families the appropriate level of support and
intervention. Services are routinely provided for six months, with decreasing
intensity as the family’s skills increase. Latitude in program design allows
response to diverse family needs with a combination of case management and
therapeutic intervention.
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