Therapeutic Foster Care

Support, Inc.’s Therapeutic Foster Care

Support, Inc.’s Foster Care Treatment Program

We support children and adolescents in many ways, one of which is to provide therapeutic foster care placement for youth with behavioral, mental health or severe emotional issues. We ensure that foster children are in a nurturing and safe environment by providing the foster parents with the skills and techniques required to help troubled youth. During their time in foster care, youth receive professional treatment for their mental or emotional problems.

Therapeutic Foster Care and Intensive Alternative Family Treatment offers each child a safe and nurturing environment in which the child’s needs can be assessed. During the child’s stay in therapeutic foster care, a licensed and fully trained foster parent has a positive influence on the child’s life by helping him or her deal with past traumas or behavioral health challenges. The ultimate goal for therapeutic foster care is that each child return to the biological home after having made positive behavioral changes.

If you are interested in becoming a treatment foster parent, please use click on Contact Us and someone will reach out to you. 

Together, Facing the Challenge of Foster Care

Support, Inc.’s Therapeutic Foster Care Program partners with “Together Facing the Challenge”, an evidence-based practice developed at Duke University, and funded by the Duke Endowment. Support, Inc. is proud to be the first agency in North and South Carolina to achieve full certification by completing the required elements and demonstrating ongoing fidelity to the Together Facing the Challenge model. Our foster care parents are trained in this model.

About the IAFT Foster Care Treatment Option

In addition to therapeutic foster care, Support, Inc. offers Intensive Alternative Family Treatment (IAFT)®. IAFT is a specialized, evidence-based, family-centered model designed to support the child’s success through a more intense level of care than therapeutic foster care. IAFT is for youth with severe difficulties, those who are at risk for hospitalization or institutionalization, and those who have experienced previous failed placements.

IAFT involves the placement of only one child or adolescent in each foster home, ensuring more focused and individualized care. IAFT foster parents receive rigorous training and a high level of supervision and support from the agency partner staff. The goal of IAFT is long-term recovery and a successful transition to the family home or a lower level of care. IAFT supports youth not only in foster homes but also as they step down to a less restrictive care level.

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Administrative Office

175 W. Franklin Blvd.
Gastonia, NC 28052

Phone: 704-865-3529

Fax: 704-865-3010

Gastonia, NC

708 S. Chestnut St.
Gastonia, NC 28054

Phone: 704-865-3525

Fax: 980-320-1392

Dallas, NC

107 N. Summey St.
Dallas, NC 28034

Phone: 704-865-3525

Fax: 704-215-7086

Lincolnton, NC

122 Performance Dr.
Lincolnton, NC 28092

Phone: 704-865-3525

Fax: 704-732-7426

Lincolnton, NC

128 Performance Dr.
Lincolnton, NC 28092

Phone: 704-865-3525

Fax: 704-240-4269

Shelby, NC

802 N. Lafayette St.
Shelby, NC 28150

Phone: 704-865-3525

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