Covenant Community Services provides Family Support Services as an alternative to out-of-home placement or a higher level of placement for a child in residential care. Children often experience short-term crisis and are in need of short-term interventions to maintain their placement in the community. The role of the Covenant Family Support Counselor (FSC) is to provide one-on-one interventions, under the direction of a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner, to enable the child to reside in the least restrictive environment. Covenant provides two distinct and dynamic services under Family Support Services – Therapeutic Behavioral; Services (TBS) and Intensive Behavioral Services (IBS).
Mission
The mission of Covenant TBS is to provide individualized, strength based services to children at risk for psychiatric hospitalization or higher-level residential placement due to inappropriate behaviors. We fulfill the mission by providing one-on-one services to stabilize a child’s behaviors and ensure successful living for the child in their current living environment. Our Family Support Counselors help children maintain the least restrictive level of care by resolving problem behaviors and achieving short-term treatment goals. Covenant TBS is short-term in nature, with an emphasis on restoration of natural supports.
Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS)
Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) are services for eligible children who need short-term behavioral supports in order to maintain their current living situation or to enable a successful move from a high level of care to a lower level of care. The Covenant TBS program provides TBS in cooperation with Kern County Mental Health, Clinica Sierra Vista and Henrietta Weill Child Guidance Clinic.
How TBS works
The TBS treatment team develops and implements plans that support the child and create a better fit for the child and family (or care provider) with their current environment. TBS consists of three main phases:
TBS staff gain an understanding of the child’s behavior, needs and environment and develop a plan.
TBS staff work directly with the child and the child’s care providers. At this time, TBS staff, the child and the child’s caregivers are working together and each person is taking responsibility for their part of the child’s behavior plan and it’s success.
During the final phase, TBS staff oversee a transition plan to ensure that the positive changes that have been realized are maintained throughout the transition period and beyond.
Covenant TBS is only successful as we support and serve children and their families for restoration and reconciliation through strength-based supports. Our success flows from the encouragement and the use of natural supports. In short, we are building families and developing children for success in their community and in life!
