Ages 0–22
Foster Care Program
Respite, child care and treatment foster care in loving family homes.
Overview
About Foster Care
Good Hearts provides various childcare and treatment services in foster home settings for children and young adults.
We serve children with emotional disorders, pervasive developmental disorders and intellectual disabilities, matching each child with a trained family able to meet their needs.
Services Offered
Good Hearts offers respite, child care, and treatment foster care services, including:
Recruiting, screening, training, supervising and supporting foster families
Family living, including community social, cultural and recreational activities
Psychological and diagnostic appraisal
Planning goals and services together with the child and family
Individual therapy with professional behavioral health providers
Support and education on sexual development, pregnancy prevention, responsible parenthood and STDs
Public school education in local districts
Private tutoring and special-education advocacy
Ethnic, cultural and religious activities that promote cultural identity
Age-appropriate transitional living activities
Medical, dental, vision and hearing services
Admission Criteria
Children must meet two or more of the following:
- Male or female, 0 through 22 years of age
- A current Emotional Disorder (mood, psychotic or dissociative disorder) together with three or more of: a GAF of 50 or below; a current DSM diagnosis; major self-injurious actions, including recent suicide attempts; significant risk of harm to self or others; a primary substance abuse diagnosis with severe impairment
- A current Pervasive Developmental Disorder (e.g. Autistic Disorder, Rett's Disorder) with deficits in adaptive skills, communication, cognition or expressions of affect, self-care, social participation, or responding appropriately to an emergency, and/or multiple physical disabilities including sensory impairments
- A current diagnosis of intellectual disability (IQ of 70 or below) with the same deficits listed above