Overview
Outcomes
Locations
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Youth Services
The goals of CSI's youth services division are to work with each youth in order to improve academic
performance, improve family dynamics, and prepare the youth to succeed in the community. Balancing
accountability, community protection and competency development provides the greatest benefit to our youth.
Our home-based youth services include:
Researchers find that these evidence-based models reduce recidivism, out-of-home placement, substance abuse
and school failure. National endorsements include:
- National Institutes of Health panel of experts endorses FFT and MST as being model programs and highly effective in reducing aggression, delinquency and substance abuse.
- Blueprints for Violence Prevention names FFT and MST as model programs.
- SAMSHA names BSFT, FFT and MST as model programs.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse assesses BSFT, FFT and MST as highly effective.
Keys to Successful Home-Based Youth and Family Services
- Therapy is strength-focused and problem-oriented.
- Goals are set primarily by family.
- Therapists set clearly defined, achievable short-term tasks.
- Interventions support parents' skills and authority.
- Family is connected to community and a broader social support network.
- All work is done in the family's natural environment.
- Therapists are flexible and resourceful as they engage and treat youth and family.
- Program maintains strong adherence to a research-validated manual.
Youth Residential Services
In addition to our home-based youth services, CSI offers youth residential services at locations in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Our residential facilities
include:
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Youth Services Brochure