Family Lifelines
Our mission is to transform the life experience for children with serious emotional and behavioral problems, and for those who care for them.
Family Lifelines is an integrated system of care designed to offer children and youth with serious emotional and behavioral issues a chance to succeed at home, at school and in the community.
Family Lifelines organizes services to support the family, so that the family remains primary in the children’s lives, rather than the service system. Our philosophy of service includes an emphasis on self-determination and family-based programs.
This program offers four coordinated care components:
Family Consultants to help both foster and biological families to maintain stable, nurturing homes
Family Finders to locate caring, healthy family members who will form a life-long, supportive family relationship with a child in foster care.
Check and Connect to promote school engagement and completion.
Family Behavioral Support Team: a child psychiatrist, family consultant, behavior support specialist, skill-building mentors, and a crisis respite home with skilled foster parents, all working together to assist parents and foster parents with the supports they need to reduce and manage difficult behavior and assist the child to thrive.
For details of the program, please download the Family Lifelines Fact Sheet [click here]
Customer Base Profile:
Gender: Male/Female
Age: 12 - 17
Diane Brandsma – Program Director
Phone: (503) 472-2240 McMinnville
Phone: (503) 390-2600 Salem
Email: dbrandsma@rfswv.org