Oregon Drug Courts

This is a comprehensive management program developed by state drug courts to track adults who have committed drug-related offenses. The goal is to propose additional treatment, follow-up, and interactions with the court judge to reduce recidivism and drug abuse.
The follow-up lasts one year and involves intensive care and other services that are necessary for the participant’s sobriety; accountability of the participant to the Drug Treatment Court judge; periodic, random drug testing; and frequent appearances before the court judge to assess treatment progress.

Family Matters

This is a program to monitor families of adolescents aged 12 to 14 in order to prevent the use of tobacco and alcohol.
The program encourages communication among family members focusing on general characteristics (supervision, communication skills) and specific characteristics (family rules for tobacco and alcohol abuse, media/peer influences).
Families receive four educational booklets and take part in weekly discussions with health educators, over the phone, based on the content set forth in the booklet.

Nurturing Families Network (NFN) Home-Visiting Program

This is a home visitation program for mothers and their children. The aim is to promote positive parenting practices and prevent child abuse and the separation of children from their families.
The program identifies potential participants based on hospital referrals and other community partnerships. The intervention consists of weekly visits by trained family support promoters, who apply a curriculum focused on problem-solving, negotiation, and parenting skills training.
The curriculum is based on three components:
1) Parent-child interaction;

Jackson County (OR) Community Family Court

This is a follow-up program for chemically dependent parents whose children are under state care in institutional shelters.
It is developed by the Community Family Court through problem-solving strategies based on the “Ten Key Components of Drug Treatment Courts.” The components include periodic (often weekly) hearings, intensive court supervision, referral to a substance use treatment program, frequent drug testing, and rewards and sanctions related to program compliance.

Child First

This is a home visitation program for fathers and mothers of children between the ages of zero and four. The aim is to prevent or reduce serious emotional disturbances, developmental and learning disabilities, as well as child abuse or neglect.
Each family is accompanied by a clinical team that provides psychotherapy services, intensive care coordination, linkage to community social services, and parenting skills training.
The essential components of the program are:

Aggression Replacement Training (ART) for Adolescents in a Runaway Shelter

This is a therapy program for adolescents aged 11 to 17 with antisocial behavior problems, a history of exposure to violence, and who are in institutional care (temporarily living in shelters for children who have run away from home).
The program combines training in anger management, social skills, and moral reasoning. The intervention takes place over a period of 10 to 24 weeks.

Boys Town In-Home Family Services (BT-IHFS)

This is a home-based parenting skills training program for parents of children and adolescents aged between 0 and 17 who are at risk of foster care in institutions responsible for protecting the rights of children and adolescents. The aim is to encourage family safety and protection, and to prevent the separation of parents from their children by placing them in child protection institutions.
The program is aimed at parents who are struggling to access basic services or who have inadequate and ineffective parenting skills and/or children with special needs.

Children with Problematic Sexual Behavior - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (PSB-CBT)

This is a brief outpatient cognitive behavioral intervention program for children up to 12 years of age with inappropriate sexual behaviors, aimed at reducing and eliminating those behaviors.
The program offers psychotherapeutic, psychoeducational, and counseling services to students and their families to strengthen parenting skills and improve parent-child communication. The intervention consists of weekly therapy and training sessions in specific groups of adults and children. The program has an average duration of four to six months.