The Institute for Family Centered Services (IFCS) was founded in 1988. Since the
company’s inception, IFCS has grown significantly and currently provides services in 4 states:
Virginia,
Maryland,
North Carolina, and
Florida. IFCS currently employs over 300 people
throughout 22 regions of the company, actively serving over 3,000 families annually.
Throughout its more than 23 years of providing services, IFCS has earned the reputation for successfully
serving families with the most challenging and difficult circumstances, utilizing powerful and
rigorous interventions via intensive in home services to maximize community safety.
Family Centered Treatment® (FCT®), a family systems model of treatment, was developed as IFCS’ model
of treatment from practical and performance oriented methods. IFCS has adhered to family
preservation best practices since inception. IFCS gathers outcome data proving FCT® is effective
with families and specialty populations, including, but not limited to families at risk for
breakup or out of home placement, sexual abuse, and offenders, substance abuse, and various
disabilities.
If you are interested in learning more about how to access IFCS and experience Family Centered services (FCT®)
please visit our “Accessing our Services” section for more information.
Because of the success that families engaged in FCT® have experienced, IFCS is growing and always hiring staff.
Please visit our “Career Center” for more information.
Professionals or families interested in learning more about IFCS outcomes and research, please visit our “Results” section.
Should you want to talk with someone live about IFCS, please visit our “Locations”
section to obtain the number of your nearest regional or state office to contact.
IFCS in the News & Literature
October 28, 2010: IFCS and FamiliFirst have been collaborating
over the past four years in an effort to promote the Family Centered Treatment® (FCT®) model, submit that
model for peer review, and further develop the standing of FCT as an Evidence-Based Practice.
Check out our new "FCT® Presentations" listing, which includes news postings about more than 20
recent presentations on FCT, on
the Evidence-Based Practice page of this site!
June 25, 2010:
Family Centered Treatment® (FCT®), a treatment model designed for use in the provision of intensive in-home services, has been included in the Model Programs Guide published by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
Read more...
October 1-4, 2009: Lee “Bob” Smith, Director Training and Development, Institute for Family Centered Services, presented at the AAMFT 2009 Annual Conference in Sacramento, CA. The conference, entitled “MFT: The Difference that Makes the Difference”, brought together leading experts in the field of marriage and family therapy to discuss the problems, needs and changing patterns of couples and family relationships. Read more...
September 2009: Exciting new research on Family Centered Treatment® completed!
An exciting new research report about Family Centered Treatment® has been completed! Find the new report, titled A Quasi-experimental Examination of Family Centered Treatment®: Outcomes for a Juvenile Delinquent Population, here.
August 2-5, 2009: William E. Painter, Jr., Senior Director, Organizational Development, Institute for Family Centered Services, and Lee “Bob” Smith, Director Training and Development, presented at the 23rd Annual FFTA Conference in Atlanta,GA. The conference, entitled “Believing in the Magic of Families”, brought together over 750 administrators, professional staff, senior managers, policy makers, researchers, educators, and treatment foster parents to improve competency and stimulate an exchange of information, best practices, and techniques that are being used in the field of Treatment Foster Care and related family-based services. Read more...
July 6-9, 2009: William E. Painter, Jr., Senior Director of Organizational Development for the Institute for Family Centered Services (IFCS), presented at the 2009 National Convention and Leadership Institute conference. The conference, held in Sacramento, CA, entitled “Creating a Healthy Future For Us All”, brought together healthcare professionals from all over the country for a week long event of remembrance, celebration, friendship, sharing and - above all – hope. Read more...
August 2008: Institute for Family Centered Services has received notification that it has been accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA)...
Read the Full News Release
September 2007: IFCS Department of Research and Program Evaluation releases new report data supporting Family Centered Treatment® as a best practice model of Intensive In-Home Family Preservation Services. See the Research
June 2006: Family Centered Treatment® featured as a promising alternative to residential treatment in Corrections Today magazine, the official
membership publication of the American Correctional Association. To read the entire article, click here!
(Reprinted with permission of the American Correctional Association, Alexandria, Va.)
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