Our Flexible Continuum of Care: An Overview 

NYAP has established a reputation over three decades for creating innovative programs that use community resources,  contain costs, are flexible and adapt to the needs of youth, their families and the communities they call home.

24 Hour Centralized Service Reception

NYAP’s innovative 24-hour support team, Centralized Service Reception (CSR), provides a single point of entry at NYAP for any contact or inquiry.  Through 1-877-NYAP-CAN, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, CSR takes Foster Care and other referrals for all NYAP offices, makes appropriate foster parent-to-youth matches and facilitates other support and resource connections.   

Therapeutic, Specialized and Family Foster Care

Foster Care is the original and core business of NYAP and is a program offered through every NYAP office, in every state. NYAP foster parents are an integral part of the service team providing nurturing and supportive environments to at-risk youth placed in their care.

Behavioral Health Services

NYAP provides community-based mental health services as both a stand-alone program and as an integrated component of treatment foster care services. NYAP provides Behavioral and Mental Health services including Assessment Services, Individual and Group Mental Health Case Management Services, Individual and Group Behavioral Health Counseling and Therapy Services, Pharmacological Management, Targeted Case Management, Crisis Intervention, Individual Behavioral Health Counseling and Therapy Services and Psychological Testing. 

Positive Adolescent Sexuality Services (PASS)

A specialized mental health services program, Positive Adolescent Sexuality Services (PASS) provides community based sexual-offender treatment services for youth who have a history of sexually exploitive or reactive behaviors or who were convicted of a sexually abusive offense.

Family Preservation and Reunification Services

NYAP provides Family Preservation Services to strengthen families, reduce risk for youth in their home environment, help families to meet identified needs and to promote healthy functioning and development of family members.

Constant and Never Ending Improvement Program (CANEI)

NYAP’s Constant and Never Ending Improvement program is an innovative, intensive, in-home based program for adolescents with histories of aggressive, defiant, or violent behavior served by the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.  CANEI is a strength-based program that seeks to help adolescents restore confidence and control to their lives and provide hope, caring and empowerment to at-risk youth. CANEI received the Innovative Practice Award by the Council on Accreditation (COA) in 2008.

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Care Management Program

Started in 1999, Care Management is a collaborative partnership between NYAP and Franklin County (Ohio) Children Services (FCCS).  The Care Management Program is a flexible and creative continuum of care featuring practical approaches to resolving the challenges and crises youth and families face, day-to-day. We work in partnership with families and parents to collectively do what is best for the child and the family as a whole. 

Home Based Services

NYAP's Home Based Services are designed to prevent out-of-home placement by reducing the risk and improving the safety of all family members.  The services also support the reunification of children and youth with their family of origin when they are returning home from foster care, a community care home or residential placement.

Medically Fragile Care

NYAP offers Therapeutic Foster Care in a family setting to serve medically fragile children that require additional care and treatment.  By definition, a medically fragile youth is one who has or is at risk of developing medical and/or developmental conditions that require ongoing, non-routine care. 

Supervised Independent Living
The Supervised Independent Living Program (SIL) in South Carolina, also known as the Stepping Stones Home, is an independent living program for males, ages 16-21, who will be aging out of foster care. The primary goals of the program are to teach people how to live in the community as positive, productive, self-sufficient adults and to make assist with the transition from foster care to independent living. 

Respite Care
NYAP provides emergency shelter care for adolescent boys in Columbus, Ohio and in supervised independent living in Florence, SC. NYAP provides respite services as an integral component of our flexible continuum of care.  Many youth receiving respite services live in a foster home; however respite care may be used as an adjunct support for families struggling with a challenging youth at home.

Community Wrap Services

One of the many services offered by the National Youth Advocate Program in South Carolina is the Community-Based Wraparound Services Program, commonly known as the Wrap Program.  These services are therapeutic activities and treatment services provided to children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral and/or medical disturbances. 

Long and Short Term Therapeutic Group Living
This program serves adolescent males and females on an emergency basis. These youth may have extensive histories of abuse, neglect and prior placements in institutional care. A number of youth served are also involved with the juvenile justice system. Services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by referral from the custodial county, with para-professional and degreed or licensed social work employees providing for basic needs, structured group activities, social/recreational outings and educational programming.

Foster to Adopt
At NYAP, our primary focus for the children, youth and families we serve through foster care, is reunifying the children with their family of origin, a relative or through kinship care.  For whatever reason, when permanent placement is not possible with the child's family, a relative or family friend in their community, NYAP offers foster parents the opportunity to adopt the child or youth in their care.

Adult (Parent) Mentoring

Parent Advocate Connections is a volunteer program by the National Youth Advocate Program to bring together mentors with parents that are involved in the child welfare system. Mentors provide guidance and support, possibly during crisis situations, assist with day-to-day activities like escorting parents to appointments, connecting parents with community resources, helping parents improve parenting and life skills and creating a more stable environment at home.

For more information about our innovative and cost-effective programs, please contact us today!