Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS)

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This is the rejuvenated Skill building services previously offered under the OMH Waiver and OCFS B2H programs. One distinguishing characteristic of the then Skill building and now PSR program is that its activities are based on hands-on, the focus of which is to teach set skills to a child/youth. PSR is usually a follow-up from the recommendations (interventions) of an OLP and are part of the child/youth treatment plan. Such interventions and skills are warranted/necessary to restore, rehabilitate, eliminate, support, or remedy some functional deficits or develop new strategies to optimize a child/youth’s development and/or assures that a child/youth develops age appropriately and as a functional and productive family/community member. As with other services, Bendel delivers PSR with cultural sensitivity and trauma informed efficiency.  

Service Components

Service Competence here can be tracked on two levels: (A) Personal and (B) Community  

A. Personal. 

This comprises Daily living skills and social and interpersonal skills

• Daily living skills. The effort here is on the acquisition, maintenance or re-establishment of daily functional skills so the child/youth can manage or mitigate the effects of physical, emotional, psychological or psychiatric symptoms which interfere with developmentally appropriate functional expectations and/or daily living. Services here could also support the youth in managing his/her daily routines – as in health, self-care, medication management, intake, and dealing with side effects, setting refill reminders, interacting with health care providers and the like, and could also target child/youth’s personal interests and community resources that support such interests.  
• Social and Interpersonal Skills. The goal in this second PSR components, is to teach now skills with the aim of enhancing child/youth’s coping skills, increasing community awareness, developing strategies, establishing supportive networks, enhancing personal relationships, developing social and interpersonal skills, social etiquette, anger management, self-regulation,  trigger watch and avoidance, making and keeping friends, positive peer interaction, positive self-image/esteem, school work, money management, travel skills, social interactional and navigational skills, learning how to manage stress and make the best of their day.  

B. Community. 

This is the third component of the PSR services. The task here is to educate the child/youth about communal roles and how to support child/youth in the efforts to become emancipated group member. This involves working with the child on independent living goals as getting a driver’s license, getting own apartment, bank account, travel skills, workplace etiquettes, safe travels, neighborhood awareness, developing social and interpersonal skills to enable child/youth function in the society, taking up adult roles, training in social etiquettes, establishing the available community networks and resources and how to access them.