Services  
Youth in Recovery Foster Care  

Youth in Recovery Foster Care services are provided through CONCERN's Northeast Office.

Care

CONCERN’s Youth in Recovery program provides concentrated family-based care and support for teens meeting one of the following criteria:

• completion of in-patient treatment and the home environment is deemed not conducive to rehabilitation
• has had treatment within the past year, has relapsed and is having difficulty returning to sobriety
• is experiencing much difficulty in his present environment, the support system is lacking and sobriety is jeopardized
• dual-diagnosis referrals are accepted.

Families

Foster families maintain a safe and appropriate home environment and have received specific training in the drug and alcohol field as well as additional training in mental health/behavioral sciences.

Program

An Intensive Case Management (ICM) program, CONCERN’s Youth in Recovery program provides contact, support, guidance and referral for the teen in foster care as well as the biological family. In addition, following discharge from the program, CONCERN offers three additional months of follow-up case management with the child and biological family.

Additional program qualifiers are:

• two case management contacts per week for each client
• drug and alcohol education for the family
• four-phase structured program and materials
• earned privileges for clients
• attendance at AA/NA meetings
• client urine testing

Staff

CONCERN case managers are trained and certified in the drug and alcohol field. Staff are Certified Case Manager (CCSM) through the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB). The Intensive Case Manager will maintain a caseload of six clients and their families.

Youth Statistics

• Adolescents drink less and have fewer alcohol-related problems when their parents discipline them consistently and set clear expectations (Studies on Alcohol, 1997)
• In 1996, about 2 million (36 percent) of the estimated 5.3 million convicted
  offenders under the jurisdiction of corrections agencies were drinking at the time of the offense. (Alcohol and Crime: An analysis of National Data on the Prevalence of Alcohol Involvement in Crime, 1998)
• Alcohol is a factor in the four leading causes of death among persons age 10 to 24: motor vehicle crashes, unintentional injuries, homicide and suicide (Kann, L., etal (2000). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States, 1999. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol. 49

Click here for a printable Youth in Recovery Foster Care brochure

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