Portable and Transferable Therapeutic Community. The cornerstone innovation contemplated in the Open Sample Clauses

Portable and Transferable Therapeutic Community. The cornerstone innovation contemplated in the Open. Doors Project is to transform the traditional residential milieu into an open, portable and transferable therapeutic community. In our model, this open therapeutic community is managed by a multidisciplinary staff team, the CFT. The therapeutic milieu, although anchored initially in the residential facility, can be immediately and seamlessly exported by the CFT to the family and community settings with a focus on returning the child to family with intensive supports, including traditional Wraparound, as quickly as it safe to do. In those settings, the same team maintains safety and treatment continuity by employing the same support approach as it would in the facility. The CFT essentially functions as vehicle for two-way transfer of learning by bringing the family and community supports into the residential milieu, and the therapeutic community to the family and community setting – a truly “family centered” approach. In this respect, we are going beyond “family friendliness” or “family inclusion” which only goes so far as to bring the family and community into the residential facility. This concept of a “milieu without walls” is established by having staff that can transfer the approaches, structured relationships, and perspectives of the therapeutic community established in the residential facility to the people who make up the family and community environments in which the youth will be living. The model has the ability to not only help a child stabilize his or her behaviors in the facility, but to transfer that new social support context to the family and community environments as soon as safely possible, so that the child and family can begin practicing skills acquisition in „natural and familiar‟ as opposed to „artificial and institutionalized‟ settings.