by Cathy | Aug 26, 2015 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services
As the Intake and Certification Coordinator for CHOSEN, I help foster parents become certified and then have the exciting job of matching children/youth referred to our program with families. We couldn’t accomplish the important task of stabilizing kids without our...
by Cathy | Aug 26, 2015 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services
Daniel and James have resided with a Mother/Daughter foster family, one of Building Families for Children’s treatment foster homes, for more than two years. They currently attend High School. Daniel is in the 10th grade, and James is in 12th. Both boys are active in...
by Cathy | Aug 26, 2015 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services
Building Families for Children has some exciting new trainings happening. Our Clinical Director, Lizette Ubides, LCSW-C, and I created a day-long learning experience for our CHOSEN staff, Treatment Foster Parents and outside treatment providers who may interact with...
by Cathy | Aug 26, 2015 | Agency News & Updates
Youth entering foster care experience TRAUMA. The Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) frame the concept of trauma around three “E’s”: event(s), experience of the event, and effect. The experience of trauma has lasting adverse...
by Cathy | Aug 26, 2015 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services
On a quiet evening in May, 2010, an orientation for the CHOSEN Treatment Foster Care Program was being held at Redland Baptist Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland. We had many referrals for children in need of homes from Montgomery County Department of Social Services...