The treatment model we use is Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®), an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection. 

“I have been working with traumatized children for 16 years and specialized in attachment for the past 12 years as well. In my experience, TBRI® has the approach that is the most helpful (and efficient) way to get kids who have been knocked off track developmentally due to life circumstances, back on track. It is the only intervention I have come across that really looks at the functioning of the whole child and tailors and approach to the unique needs of that child. It works!” — Kate Oliver, LCSW-C, Training Coordinator, Building Families for Children

In addition to extensive training, we provide in-home support through our therapists and Family Support Social Workers. They are available to provide guidance for foster parents and help children placed in the home on their journey to healing. Permanency is always the goal for youth in our care. Whenever possible, we advocate for youth to be reunited with their biological family. When that isn’t an option, we strive for permanency through adoption. Sometimes, neither happen, but while in our care we are equipping youth for a successful transition into independent adulthood.  Our therapeutic services and trauma informed care lay the foundation, helping youth heal and learn to build healthy, lasting relationships. Our Independent Living Classes teach them important skills like budgeting, preparing a resume, and succeeding in college. Most importantly, we’re teaching youth to confidently take responsibility and plan for their future so they can build strong, stable families of their own someday! 

Every child in our CHOSEN program has a history of trauma that impacts their needs, development, and behavior. Unfortunately, studies have shown that youth in foster care have poor long term outcomes when compared with peers. They are more likely to drop out of school, become teen parents, and experience homelessness. So what can be done to help our most vulnerable children? Our treatment model, extensive training and support, advocacy for permanency, and Independent Living Classes are breaking the generational cycles of trauma, poverty, and isolation.

The treatment model we use is Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®), an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection. 

“I have been working with traumatized children for 16 years and specialized in attachment for the past 12 years as well. In my experience, TBRI® has the approach that is the most helpful (and efficient) way to get kids who have been knocked off track developmentally due to life circumstances, back on track. It is the only intervention I have come across that really looks at the functioning of the whole child and tailors and approach to the unique needs of that child. It works!” — Kate Oliver, LCSW-C, Training Coordinator, Building Families for Children

In addition to extensive training, we provide in-home support through our therapists and Family Support Social Workers. They are available to provide guidance for foster parents and help children placed in the home on their journey to healing. Permanency is always the goal for youth in our care. Whenever possible, we advocate for youth to be reunited with their biological family. When that isn’t an option, we strive for permanency through adoption. Sometimes, neither happen, but while in our care we are equipping youth for a successful transition into independent adulthood.  Our therapeutic services and trauma informed care lay the foundation, helping youth heal and learn to build healthy, lasting relationships. Our Independent Living Classes teach them important skills like budgeting, preparing a resume, and succeeding in college. Most importantly, we’re teaching youth to confidently take responsibility and plan for their future so they can build strong, stable families of their own someday!