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Who are the clients of Westview Family Services?
Westview Family Services serves families with children experiencing life challenges, including blended, adoptive, and foster families. Westview Boys’ Home provides high-quality residential care, yet WFS seeks to provide interventions that might prevent from escalating to the point that parents feel the need to place a child in residential care.
How does Westview Family Services help families?
- WFS provides educational opportunities for parents to learn new parenting skills, especially for children who have experienced trauma or challenging life situations
- WFS offers professional counseling for individual children
- When family systems are troubled, WFS delivers family counseling
- Often parents need coaching, not counseling; WFS has experienced practitioners of Trust Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) to empower parents with better practices
- WFS schedules group sessions for parents with similar needs (autism, etc.)
- Westview believes that many residential and foster placements are preventable; WFS provides counseling and coaching to help
How does Westview Family Services serve the young men at Westview and their families?
- WFS provides the intake counseling to determine whether a residential placement is appropriate for a young person.
- Once a young man is in the care of Westview Boys’ Home, WFS provides therapeutic counseling with a professional counselor.
- WFS also provides counseling support and parenting coaching for families who have placed young men at Westview Boys’ Home.
- WFS follows up with young men from Westview and their families by providing counseling to assist with the transition back home.