Intensive Family Intervention (IFI)

Intensive Family Intervention Services are short-term, family-focused, and community-based services
designed to help families cope with significant stresses or problems that
interfere with their ability to nurture their children. The goal of the Intensive
Family Intervention Program is to maintain children with their families, or to
reunify them, whenever it can be done safely.

Intensive Family Intervention may be provided to different types of families—

birth or biological families, kinship families, foster families, and adoptive families
—to help them address major challenges, stabilize the family, and enhance
family functioning. IFI grew out of the recognition that children need a safe and
stable family and that separating a child from their family is a traumatic experience, often leaving lasting
negative effects. These services build upon the conviction that many children can be safely protected and
treated within their own homes when parents are provided with services and support and empowered to
change the child’s and their lives.

Team Approach
IFI services are delivered utilizing a team approach and are
provided primarily to youth in their living arrangement and within
the family system. Your team will consist of:
1. Licensed Therapist—to provide professional counseling
and therapy.
2. Family Intervention Specialist (FIS)—to help your family
learn critical skills to improve family functioning.
3. Consumer Support Specialist (CSS)—to help you & your
family connect to community resources.

Team members will visit you individually through the week. At the onset of services your team may spend
3 or more days a week with you and your family or guardians, as the risk of out-of home placement
decreases or the reunification process is less stressful to the family your team will begin to decrease the
number and length of visits.
One of the team members will be assigned as your Case Manager. Your case manager will have a small
caseload allowing them to focus more time on your family and ensuring that your family moves through
the service toward recovery.
IFI services are generally offered for 90 days and IFI team members are available 24 hours a day in the
event of an emergency. Many of the services your family will receive will be in your home or in another
environment familiar to the family.

Services
Our IFI Program offers the following services:
 Individual & Family Counseling  Physician Assessment and Care
 Individual & Family Training  Nursing Assessment and Care
 Diagnostic Evaluations and Assessment  Case Management
 Treatment Planning  Crisis Intervention

Remember your team of professionals & all of the Jireh Staff wants to help you and your family, please do
not hesitate to let us know what you need.

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Jireh has been conducting business in the local area for many years. We have worked hard to gain the
respect of the surrounding communities and other agencies. This recognition is due to our respect for our
consumers and fellow colleagues. It is our sincerest hope that your experience with us will further this
reputation of personalized service and consumer satisfaction.
Our company is comprised of people who live in the surrounding communities and have knowledge of
each neighborhood, the schools, and community resources to meet our consumer’s needs.
We are a private counseling agency that serves individuals, families, and communities through education,
training, and therapeutic counseling. Our staff is well trained and educated on providing counseling and
training services.

Felicia Jenkins,
LPC CEO &
Program
Director

Nureava Byron Kellam, Adrienne

Darden LPC Johnson,
Consumer IFI Team LMSW
Rights Officer Leader CORE Services
Supervisor

Mission Statement
Our mission is to create and deliver high quality in-home, community-based, school-based, and out-
patient mental health and substance abuse services that improve the health and well being of children,
adolescents, and their family.

Jireh Services
The staff at JCCS are dedicated to providing our consumers will unsurpassed, high-quality services. We
are committed to the following principles:

• Service Delivery—We commit to providing excellence which guides all operating decisions at Jireh Counseling
& Consulting Services, Inc. Simply put, it is the way we do business. We will provide timely, professional,
effective, and efficient service to all of our consumers.

• Ethical and Fair Treatment for All—We are committed to forming relationships of fairness and trust with our
consumers and our employees. We will conduct our business according to the highest ethical standards.

• Compassion—We will never lose sight of the fact that we provide care and comfort to people in need. The
individuals and families that rely upon us are fellow human beings, and receive respectful and dignified treatment
from all of our staff at all times.

For more information please check us out online at—www.jirehcounseling.com

or contact us @:

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(office) 404 761- 0980—(fax) 404 761-0720
provider@jirehcounseling.com

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