The
Council on Accreditation (COA) is an independent accreditor
of the full continuum of community-based behavioral health
care and social service organizations in the United States
and Canada, and is one of the three leading accreditors of
such service providers. Over 1500 organizations -- voluntary,
public and proprietary, local and statewide, large and small
have either successfully achieved COA accreditation or are
currently engaged in the process.
COA
is widely recognized by states and national organizations
as an accrediting body with the capacity, scope, and ability
to contribute significantly to the improvement of the behavioral
health and social service delivery systems. Originally known
as an accrediting body for family and children’s agencies,
COA has earned public recognition from mental health and substance
abuse organizations.
COA’s accreditation process involves a detailed review
and analysis of an organization’s administrative operations
and service delivery against national standards of best practice.
All of an organization’s programs for which COA has
standards are subject to review—COA reviews and accredits
the entire organization, not specific programs.
As is fitting with its mission and values, COA’s accreditation
process is designed to facilitate organizational improvement.
COA views accreditation as a structured means of achieving
positive organizational change, rather than as an adversarial
process. COA’s accreditation process is open and facilitative
and provides an organization with all the tools needed for
ultimate success. http://www.coanet.org
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Alliance
for Children and Families
The
Alliance for Children and Families provides services to nonprofit
child and family serving and economic empowerment organizations.
Motivated by a vision of a healthy society and strong communities,
we work to strengthen America’s nonprofit sector and
through advocacy assure the sector’s continued independence.
The Alliance, formed by the 1998 merger of Family Service
America and the National Association of Homes and Services
for Children, helps member agency leaders successfully meet
today’s and tomorrow’s challenges by drawing upon
its more than 90 years of leadership in the human services
community.
http://www.alliance1.org/
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Appalachian
Family Innovations
Appalachian Family Innovations (Family Innovations) is a division
of the Reich College of Education at Appalachian State University.
With primary offices in Morganton, Asheville, and Winston-Salem,
Family Innovations has, since the early 1970s committed itself
to the development, implementation, and refinement of leading
edge helping programs for troubled youth and their families.
Formerly, Bringing It All Back Home Study Center (BIABH).
Appalachian Family Innovations provides specialized direct
care programs in foster care, adoptions, home visitation with
parents with newborns, intensive family preservation services,
and sex abuse prevention.
Appalachian Family Innovations offers training, consultation,
and evaluation support to intensive family preservation service
providers, direct care staff in residential programs, staff
development for teachers, and commissioned training to organizations
with special programming requirements or client populations.
The research, training, and service efforts at Family Innovations
have led consistently to the same conclusion. If we, society,
want our children to grow up to be caring spouses, nurturing
parents, and productive citizens, we must expose them to adults
who behave that way and encourage those skills and values.
Appalachian Family Innovations is a Certified Teaching-Family
Association Sponsor Agency. http://www.biabh.org/
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Teaching-Family
Association
In the late 1960's, the National Institute of Mental Health
provided major grants to fund research conducted by several
pioneers of behavioral psychology with the Achievement Place
Research Project at the University of Kansas. This research
defined and refined a residential treatment model know today
as the Teaching-Family Model (TFM). That Model was, and continues
to be, consistently effective in changing the behavior of
troubled youths. Since 1967, an international association,
the Teaching-Family Association, has grown out of the demand
to replicate this effective, humane model of treatment. The
Teaching-Family Association is applied in many different programs
- i.e., Group Homes, Treatment Foster Care, and Home-Based
Treatment, etc. - each of which is based on the common Elements
and tenants of the Teaching-Family Model. Today, the Model
serves families; physically, emotionally, and sexually abused
children; delinquent youths, emotionally disturbed and autistic
children and adults; medically fragile children; and, adults
with disabilities.
The Teaching-Family Association (TFA) was founded in 1975
to ensure the quality of care provided by professionals who
actively pursue the goals of humane, effective, individualized
treatment for children, families, and dependent adults using
the common framework of the Teaching-Family Model for treatment
and support. What is learned in one agency can be shared with
other agencies within the Association and incorporated into
the standards of quality assurance processes within the Association.
TFA's goals are to certify members, recognize programs, standardize
useful training and evaluation procedures, supervise program
replication, and provide yearly conferences for sharing new
material and program development. The Teaching-Family Association
is the only entity in North America that defines and implements
standards and review procedures related to the actual performance
and quality of treatment and service delivery systems at all
organizational levels. For more information about the Teaching-Family
Model or the Teaching-Family Association call (757 497-3023)
the Association Office.
http://www.teaching-family.org
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Forget Me Not - Making Children the #1 Priority in NC
Forget Me Not is a program of the Family and Children’s Services Association of North Carolina. The Association is composed of North Carolina not-for-profit, for-profit and public providers that provide services to children and families. Among the many services member agencies provide are residential child care and treatment; community-based services; emergency and group care; adoptions; family foster care; therapeutic foster care and therapeutic camping.
www.forgetmenot-nc.com
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