Treatment / Therapeutic Foster Care: Intensive treatment foster care program for children with psychiatric conditions involving severe emotional and behavioral problems.  Available to children and youth with special needs, from birth through age 18 who’s specific needs are carefully assessed in order to match the youth to a foster home qualified to meet the child’s specific needs and establish individual treatment plans.

Adults Adopting Special Kids (AASK):  In collaboration with Catholic Charities of North Dakota adoption services are provided to include adoption studies, adoption placements, training and education, child specific recruitment, life book planning, foster parent adoptions and post adoption support.

Case Aide & Parent Support (CAPS):  In collaboration with Southeast Human Service Center this program provides case aide and parent support services to children with psychiatric conditions involving severe emotional and behavioral problems, and their families to assist with maintaining the youth in the community.

Community Based Treatment Program (CBT):  The CBT Program serves children with psychiatric conditions involving severe emotional and behavioral problems and includes intensive community based services monthly treatment meetings, crisis planning, secondary case manager services, enhanced respite care and intense levels of individualized supports created to maintain the youth in the community.

Continuing Education and Job Training (CEJT):  A scholarship program that is limited to youth and adults who have been served by Long Term Foster Care or Kinship Programs.

Crisis Stabilization and Social Detoxification Program (CARE):  A short-term community based program for youth at risk of being placed at more restrictive levels of care who are actively using substances or are in danger of relapse.

Family & Community Evaluation Program (FACE):  A three month program utilizing Treatment Foster Care services to assess the child’s ability to be served in a community setting or to transition a child from psychiatric residential treatment facility to a Treatment Foster Care placement.  These youth have psychiatric Axis I diagnoses with severe emotional and behavioral issues.

Family Support Program (FSP):  A treatment program provided in the community designed to maintain the child in their home and prevent psychiatric hospitalization and / or placement in a psychiatric residential treatment facility.  This program serves youth with Axis I psychiatric conditions with severe emotional and behavioral issues that place them at risk of out of home psychiatric care.

Guardianship:  Primarily serves kinship relationships for families and youth on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. 

Independent Living Services:  A youth centered, future oriented program for youth 16 and older to provide skills, knowledge and supports in their transition to adulthood and self-sufficiency.

Long Term Foster Care (LTFC):  This service is provided to youth through a contractual service with Casey Family Programs.

PATH/DJS Sex Offenders Program:  A treatment foster care program designed for youth that have been placed in the custody of DJS who have a history of sex offending behavior.

Post Adoption:  Under contract and in collaboration with the Casey Family Programs post-adoption services are provided and limited to transferred adoptive families in the Bismarck area.

REACH:  A federally funded program aimed at supporting and increasing the number of adoptions of youth with special needs in rural North Dakota.

Regular Foster Care: A service that is provided at the request of the legal custodian.  Services meet all the standards of the Council on Accreditation and mirror the services provided in Step Down.

Specialized Family Care Program (SFC):  This program uses intensive treatment foster care with a strict focus on children exiting the North Dakota Youth Correctional Center.

Step Down Foster Care:  Offers children at PATH who have reached the age of 18 and /or stabilized, who have no less restrictive option to stay within their PATH home at an adjusted level of care.

Supervised Alternative Family Environment (SAFE):  Provides crisis stabilization services to children in the midst of a major psychiatric crisis while maintaining them in the community.