Learn how MCC Family Services’ Intensive Family Based Program supports eligible children, adolescents, and families through in home, family focused behavioral health services.
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When a child or adolescent is struggling emotionally or behaviorally, the impact is often felt throughout the entire home.
Parents and caregivers may feel overwhelmed. Siblings may feel the tension. Daily routines may become harder to manage. Conversations may turn into arguments more often than they used to. Over time, the stress can begin to affect the whole family.
During these moments, families may need more than occasional guidance. They may need structured support that helps them work through challenges together, strengthen relationships, and keep the family safely connected at home.
MCC Family Services’ Intensive Family Based Program is designed to provide that level of support for eligible families.
Support that meets families where challenges happen
Family Based Services are intensive, in home, child centered, and family focused.
This matters because many of the hardest moments families face do not happen in an office. They happen during everyday routines, stressful conversations, transitions, school related concerns, or moments when emotions become difficult to manage.
By providing services in the family’s home, the treatment team can better understand the family’s daily environment, relationships, needs, and strengths. This allows support to be more connected to what the family is actually experiencing.
The goal is not to place blame on one person. The goal is to help the family move forward together.
Helping families stay together
One of the primary goals of Family Based Services is to help avert an out of home placement and keep families intact whenever possible.
For families facing serious emotional or behavioral health challenges, this type of support can be an important step. It gives children, adolescents, parents, and caregivers a team that can help them build stability while continuing to work within the home and family system.
Family Based Services focus on the relationships within the family. The work may involve strengthening communication, building healthier patterns, improving supports, and helping caregivers feel more prepared to respond during difficult moments.
A strengths based approach to care
Families going through a difficult season may feel like everything is focused on what is going wrong. A strengths based approach looks at the full picture.
MCC’s Family Based Program uses a strengths based model where specially trained clinicians partner with the family and empower caregivers. This means the team works with the family, not around them.
Caregivers are an important part of the process. The program helps families recognize the strengths they already have while building new supports for resilience and recovery.
Progress may look different for every family. For one family, it may mean improving communication. For another, it may mean creating safer routines. For another, it may mean helping caregivers feel more confident when responding to emotional or behavioral challenges.
Trauma informed support for children and families
Family challenges can be connected to many different experiences, including emotional trauma.
MCC’s Family Based Program uses a Trauma Informed Care approach to treatment. Clinicians are specially trained to work with children, adolescents, and families who have experienced emotional trauma.
A trauma informed approach recognizes that behavior is often connected to a person’s experiences, stress, relationships, and environment. This allows treatment to be more compassionate, more thoughtful, and more responsive to the needs of the family.
What Family Based Services can include
Family Based Services may include individual therapy, co-parenting support, family therapy, and intensive case management.
These services are designed to support both the child and the family system around them. The team works with the family to address emotional and behavioral health needs while also helping strengthen the relationships and supports that are important for long term stability.
Crisis planning and prevention are also key parts of the program. The treatment team and on call staff are available to families on a 24 hour, 7 day per week basis.
A focused period of intensive support
Family Based Services are provided in the family’s home for up to 32 weeks.
This gives families a focused period of intensive support while they work toward greater stability, stronger relationships, and improved coping. The work is meant to help families build tools and supports that can continue beyond the program.
For many families, this kind of care can provide structure during a time that may otherwise feel overwhelming.
Family Based Services at MCC Family Services
If you believe your family would benefit from our Intensive Family Based Program, we are here to help. You can reach out to our regional teams directly to discuss the referral process and check eligibility for your area:
| Service Area | Contact Number |
| Bucks & Philadelphia Counties | 267-525-7000 |
| Montgomery County | 267-655-4185 |
| Chester, Berks, & Delaware Counties | 484-318-7117 |
| Lehigh Valley, Carbon, Monroe, & Pike | 484-863-9330 |
Not sure which number to call? You can also visit our Contact Us page to send a secure message, and a member of our team will guide you to the right office.