Intensive Family Preservation Services

HOMEBUILDERS®

We aim to collaborate with you to maintain your family unity and prevent your children from entering foster care. Our evidence-based program leverages your strengths, offers resources, and assists in creating a stable, secure home for your children. Consider us your partner on this journey!

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HOMEBUILDERS® Family Preservation

Why It Matters

We give more families a brighter tomorrow.

Every day, thousands of North Carolina families grapple with the delicate balance between their children’s needs and the daily challenges they face. When families become overwhelmed, children are at risk of abuse and neglect, potentially leading to foster care. Together, we can make a difference, ensuring that families stay together with enduring, loving, and safe relationships.

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HOMEBUILDERS® Model Keeps More Families Together

We are crisis-responsive and utilize evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions to best meet the needs of families.

HOMEBUILDERS® Family Preservation

Our family-centered services empower, prepare, and equip families to safely care for, protect, and provide for their children. Our services focus on the family’s specific needs, the safety of the child, and special skills development.

Our toolkit includes:

  • Comprehensive Assessment
  • Service Planning and Implementation
  • Family and Individual Counseling
  • Parenting Skills Training
  • Life Skills Training
  • Budgeting
  • Home Maker Skill Development
  • Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution Skill Development
  • Referrals for Services
  • Advocacy
  • Emergency Financial Assistance
  • 24/7 Crisis Support

HOMEBUILDERS® National Outcomes

The underlying philosophy of HOMEBUILDERS® is that it is best to raise children in their own family. Placement in foster care is traumatic for children and it does not teach families how to keep their children safe in the future. HOMEBUILDERS® minimizes barriers to services, using specific strategies to enhance family member motivation, and teach skills designed to improve family functioning and alter the environment to reduce stress.

 

86.3%

Success Rate – Placement Prevention, Reunification, or Stabilization Achieved at Service Closure

91.5%

Success 6 Months After Closure – youth avoided placement 6 months after services ended

91.93%

Improved Family Functioning – interventions with improvement in at least 1 NCFAS domain rated below baseline at intake and essential to improve.

94.65%

Goal Achievement – interventions with goal improvement on at least 1 goal
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Intensive Care For Families In Crisis

We are crisis-responsive and utilize evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions to best meet the needs of families.

By strengthening families, we can prevent children from being removed from their homes. Through this program, HOMEBUILDERS® services are provided for a period of 28 days, 10 hours per week, with a minimum of 38 service hours to address the specific needs of the family.

Services are delivered to families in their own homes and communities, at times that are most convenient for them. Our specialists utilize these in-home services to build connections and support systems that enable the family and the child to thrive.

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