Program Overview | Southern Arizona | Yavapai County, Arizona | New Mexico

In-Home Programs for Youth

Intermountain Centers for Human Development is at the forefront of development of intensive, in-home programs that allow the agency’s staff to work with children in their own environments, rather than removing them from their families and placing them out of their homes in a more restrictive milieu. In-home programs employ a model which is considered the Best of Practice where every effort is made to keep children at home with an intensive service structure supporting them and their families. Intermountain’s In-Home treatment programs follow the twelve principles set down by The Arizona Vision for behavioral health services. The Arizona Vision mandates that: in collaboration with the child and family and others, Arizona will provide accessible behavioral health services designed to aid children to achieve success in school, live with their families, avoid delinquency, and become stable and productive adults.

The goals of the In-Home Programs are:

To keep the family safe,
To avoid unnecessary placement of children in substitute care,
To improve family functioning so that the behavior conditions leading to the crisis will be less likely to recur,
To reunify children from out-of-home placement with their families.

The general provisions of In-Home service are:

The child’s safety is not jeopardized by remaining in the home,
One parent is willing to work with the In-Home Services Program,
The family’s residence is within the defined geographic boundaries,
Reunification is utilized to allow a child to leave a residential facility by transitioning him/her back into their family.

All services are delivered in the client’s home or the larger community. This is intended to provide the worker with a greater understanding of the family’s situation and to enable the worker and family to address difficulties in the environment in which they are likely to occur.