Family Preservation Services, Inc.
Washington, D.C.

The mission of FPS is to collaborate with and support community agencies in their efforts to reduce out-of-home placement, strengthen families and provide youth and their families with opportunities to develop skills, enabling them to become productive, contributing members of their communities. FPS is dedicated to offering innovative and effective community services to assist in the support and preservation of families.

Human Services Without Walls
simply means that FPS provides services in the client’s own environment. Family Preservation Services doesn’t own or operate any hospitals or residential facilities. Clients are served in their homes, schools, neighborhoods, and communities. Family Preservation Services of Washington, DC, Inc. began offering services in the Washington, DC area in the summer of 2004. FPS is certified and licensed by the DC Department of Mental Health. FPS accepts referrals from all District agencies.

We offer the following outpatient psychiatric services:

• Core Service Agency (CSA)
• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
• Community Based Intervention (CBI)

Core Service Agency (CSA)
A Core Service Agency is a community agency certified by the Department of Mental Health to coordinate patient care for eligible consumers. We provide psychiatric services to residents of the District of Columbia ranging in age from 6 and up.
Our CSA provides the following services:

• Diagnosis and Assessment
• Medication/Somatic Treatment
• Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Community Support

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Assertive Community Treatment is a specialty service that involves a multi-disciplinary team approach offered in the adults natural setting. ACT services are provided to individuals aged 18 and up with serious and persistent mental illness who also have one or more of the following: a pattern of frequent hospital admissions and/or homelessness, history of a long term hospitalization(s), a co-occurring disorder, involvement with the criminal justice system or who have not been successfully engaged in services and/or have not benefited from traditional mental health services.

Community Based Intervention (CBI)
Community Based Interventions are offered in the child’s natural setting. This includes counseling, case management, and referral to community based sources of support. CBI services are provided to children and youth aged 6 to 21 years and their families. CBI is a time limited intensive mental health intervention and wrap-around services delivered to children, youth and adults and intended to prevent the utilization of an out-of-home therapeutic resource by the consumer.