How Can I Get Family Solutions
Implemented in My Area?
If you are located within an hour of the Athens-Clarke County, GA area, our trained FSP group leaders can implement FSP in your area! Our trained leaders can offer programs in local schools, churches, community centers, and DJJ facilities.
For those interested in FSP outside of the Athens area, the developers of the Family Solutions Program offer training and ongoing support to assist professionals in Departments of Juvenile Justice, human service agencies, schools, and youth-serving organizations in developing, implementing, and coordinating the FSP in their community. The FSP developers offer two days of on-site training at the location of your choice.
Family Solutions is proven to be a cost-effective alternative to family and individual therapy. Since legal guardians and siblings over the age of six are asked to attend the program, the cost-effectiveness of the program is based upon ten families, with three people in each family. For twenty hours of group counseling, the cost per person is eighty-four dollars for the ten week group cycle. When broken down even further, the cost is approximately four dollars per person per hour of counseling. In addition to being cost-effective, by reaching non-offending siblings, the Family Solutions model is preventive, serving as an additional protective factor for these youth who may also be at-risk.
Following the two-day training, collaboration with Families4Change includes:
• Password protected access to the leaders-only portion of the website containing:
- Step-by-step agendas for each group session
- Downloadable documents for each group session
- Sample Letters to Families, Risk Assessment Forms, Evaluation Forms
- Video demonstrations of session activities and group dynamics
- Ability to chat with Families4Change staff and other leaders
• Unlimited consultation time by telephone and/or by internet with the FSP host site
• Materials to help you market FSP to your community
- 15 minute FSP DVD to help market the program to your community
- FSP brochures in English and/or Spanish
- FSP newsletters, magnets, and other promotional materials
• Complete FSP Curriculum Manual
• Other support materials include:
- Book: Family Solutions for At-Risk Youth (2004), by Dr. William Quinn
- Background information on the concepts of family and group intervention
- Referral procedures with courts or inter-agency collaborators
• Booster trainings and additional materials can be requested at any time
If you are interested in offering FSP in your community contact Families4Change.
Training and site support costs vary; please ask the Families4Change staff for details.
