ACTS Intensive In-Home Counseling Services

The Intensive In-Home Counseling program provides counseling services to families in the home, with anywhere from 3-12 hours per week, in order to provide the needed attention to treatment issues identified by the client, parent/guardian, and counselor. Clients are between the ages of 4 and 20, and are displaying behavioral or emotional issues to such a degree that they are potentially at risk for out-home placement. Families may be referred by professionals such as social workers or teachers, or families themselves may request to participate in the program. Since we believe that all families have the ability to grow and overcome difficulties, we recognize each family's individual strengths and work with them as partners to help them achieve their goals. Family/child sessions as well as individual counseling sessions are utilized in order to help foster improved family communication, and assist the client with achieving treatment goals identified at the beginning of services, and adjusted as needed throughout services.

Commonly addressed issues include:

  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety and Depression
  • Alcohol and Drug Abuse
  • Child Discipline Techniques
  • Conflicts between family members affecting or involving the client
  • Delinquent behaviors such as violence or gang activity
  • Grief and Loss
  • School Attendance
  • Parent/Child Conflicts

Goals of In-Home Treatment include:

  • Improving parent/child interaction and communication
  • Supporting parents to be in charge
  • Helping parents establish rules, rewards and consequences and learn effective discipline techniques
  • Assisting the child with taking responsibility for behaviors, with strategies for change.
  • Supporting families in a collaborative manner so families together in a healthy way
Counseling sessions include both individual sessions with the child, as well as combination of members of the family in order to achieve their goals. The length of treatment varies depending on the family's unique needs. We also encourage collaboration with any other professionals that impact the family’s life to help ensure ongoing success in achieving their goals.

Admission Criteria:

Admission criteria must include: 1) client is at risk for out-of-home placement to such facilities as a psychiatric hospital, juvenile detention center or correctional facility, group home, foster-care, 2) or the client is returning from such a residential placement and would benefit from therapeutic transition counseling services, 3) must be able to be assessed with a clinical DSM-based diagnosis or previously have had one made, 4) a parent or guardian must agrees to participate in the treatment process, 5) have Virginia Medicaid, FAPT funding, court funding, or other contracted agency assistance.

205 Chesterfield Ave.
Colonial Heights, VA 23834
804.526.7854