OUR TREATMENT MODEL

At Assuring Love Child Placing Agency, our approach to healing is grounded in real experience, evidence-based practice, and whole-child care. Every member of our staff has been a foster parent. We understand the urgency, the complexity, and the sacred trust of placing children in homes that don’t repeat their trauma, but redirect their futures.

We believe every child deserves a responsive, stable, and loving home that supports healing. Our treatment model rests on three core pillars and is built around a customized, trauma-informed system of care.

Our Three Core Pillars

1. The REALISTIC Model
   A trauma-responsive framework developed in-house by foster parents and child welfare professionals. It guides everything from intake to aftercare, with a focus on relationship-based care, developmental awareness, and cultural humility.
2. Together Facing the Challenge (TFTC)
   An evidence-based therapeutic foster care training and coaching system that emphasizes connected caregiving, structure, and a consistent response to trauma.
3. PAPH Emergency Behavioral Intervention (EBI) Training
   A state-approved, trauma-informed behavioral response system that keeps de-escalation safe and therapeutic.

REALISTIC: The Assuring Love Framework

REALISTIC draws on guidance from the Child Welfare Information Gateway and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), which support family-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed care.

How It Works in Each T3C Service Package

Basic Foster Family Home Support Services

• Caregivers are trained in TFTC and certified in PAPH EBI before receiving placements.
• CANS 3.0 assessments guide service planning, with reviews at intake and every six months.
• Children receive individual and family therapy (through STAR Health when eligible), normalcy activities, and trauma-informed care anchored in the REALISTIC model.
• Foster homes receive 24/7 agency support and ongoing coaching.

Short-Term Assessment Support Services

• Short-term placements of 30 to 90 days for stabilization and evaluation.
• Psychosocial and behavioral evaluations within 72 hours, weekly monitoring, progress documentation, clinical and permanency recommendations, coordinated transition planning, and 14 days of aftercare after discharge.

Child and Youth Orientation

Every child, youth, and young adult in our care learns about our treatment model during orientation, so they understand our team-based approach and the support available to them.

A Team Approach

• Monthly case management meetings let our team address needs as they come up and step in early.
• Our Treatment Director and Program Director lead the ongoing development, training, and use of the treatment model, keeping it aligned with T3C expectations and best practices.
• All staff and contractors are trained in REALISTIC, TFTC, and PAPH EBI.

Caregiver Training and Support

• Pre-service and annual training in trauma, behavior support, cultural humility, human trafficking prevention, IDD, autism, and pregnant and parenting youth.
• Weekly check-ins, monthly team reviews, and 24/7 emergency support from trained case managers and experienced foster parents.

Aftercare and Continuous Improvement

• Individualized aftercare plans with consistent follow-up after a child leaves placement.
• We track placement stability, CANS progress, incidents, and family satisfaction, and review results quarterly. What we learn shapes how we match children with homes, support caregivers, and update our training.