Family Team Meeting Facilitation
The Family Team Meeting Facilitation Program provides FTM Facilitators who are trained to work with family members whose children are at risk of abuse or neglect. FTM Facilitators provide family team meetings in the family’s home or at another location within the family’s local community.
Using the Homebuilders Model, the FTM Facilitators assists the family and community partners in identifying the family’s strengths as well as areas of potential concern. The FTM functions to serve the family’s achievement of safety, permanency, stability, and wellbeing of the children. The family team will bring together the wisdom of extended family and friends as well as the resources, experiences, and expertise of formal community supports. The team works together to assure safety and to meet the needs of children and families.
The FTM Facilitator spends an average of 2-4 hours per family coordinating, scheduling, and conducting family team meetings. Families are referred to the Family Team Meeting Facilitation Program by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Community Based Services.
Our Goals
The Family Team Meeting Facilitation Program strives to provide emotional support, concrete services, community linkages for dealing with identified problems, and empower parents to successfully confront those problems that have disrupted the family in the past by building upon identified strengths.
The Family Team Meeting Facilitation program has three primary functions:
- To keep the family safe by helping to empower the family to take ownership of their action plan so as to achieve greater self-sufficiency.
- Support the creation of an environment that will provide increased safety and stability for families and children.
- To improve family functioning so the behavior that led to the children being at-risk will be reduced.
Funding Source
The Supervised Visitation Program is funded in its entirety through grants from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Cabinet for Families and Children, with state funds allocated by the Kentucky General Assembly.