Specialized Foster CareAt Alliance Youth Services Inc., we pride ourselves on providing nurturing, stable, professional and family-based, child-centred, person centred, long term placements that stop the cycle of placement breakdown for difficult, hard to serve children and youth, as well as adults.
We have committed, trained and highly supported Parent Therapists (Foster Parents) that understand the value of collaboration to ensure placement stability. Alliance Youth Services Inc. strives to build the capacity and skills of individuals, families, caregivers and agencies to improve the quality of life for the individuals we care for.
Our Parent Therapists (Foster Parents), support staff and management team receive the highest levels of training to ensure that the individuals we serve benefit from long term, stable placements that meet their unique needs, as well as come to know a sense of family and community through a permanency approach to placement.
In our Specialized Foster Homes, communication of rules and expectations are established based on the developmental and adaptive functioning of the child. Through a strength based, ability based approach, our children and youth also experience competency and success in situations that they have often failed to in other settings.
While we specialize in providing homes for children and with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, our Parent Therapists (Foster Parents) draw on a wide variety of experiences and have the ability to provide homes to children and youth who present with a variety of challenges and abilities.
At AYS we are able to support and care for children, youth and adults:
- Who have complex needs and who are hard to serve.
- With behavioural problems, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), mental health challenges, developmental delays and cognitive delays, dual diagnosis, pregnant teenagers or teenagers with babies, or individuals who are in need of a caring home.
- We accept sibling groups (up to 4).
All residents in our Specialized Foster Homes have access to the following clinical services:
- Initial Assessment
- Assessments completed by a Registered Psychologist to assist in determining cognitive abilities, recognize the presence of an impaired cognitive functioning, identify academic ranges and learning profiles, as well as measure personal and social skills needed for everyday living in order to develop and support educational and treatment plans. Types of assessments conducted are determined by the treatment team. Examples are: Academic Assessment, Psychological Educational, Cognitive, and Adaptive Functioning Assessments.
- Individual Counselling, Play Therapy, Art Therapy, Sexuality Counselling, Psychosexual Risk Counselling.
At AYS, we pride ourselves on providing Parent Therapists (Foster Parents) with a significant amount of support. All AYS Parent Therapists (Foster Parents) receive:
- Ongoing training (Child Development, FASD, Safe Management Certification, First Aid/CPR Certification, etc.)
- At least 12 days paid Respite/vacation per year
- High levels of clinical support from a Resource Manager and Management Team
- Access to Professional Parent Therapist (Foster Parent) support group, as well as Peer Networking/Support
- 24 hour emergency AYS support
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