Touchstone Child & Family Center
Family Counselor in Salt Lake City, UT

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Touchstone Child & Family Center
read moreHelps special needs foster and adopted children and their families develop meaningful relationships and implement non-punative behavioral strategies to facilitate secure attachment connections and establish permanency in their homes. Focuses on the child as well as the parent-child dyad. Therapeutic and psycho-educational support provided for parents in this challenging and often strenuous role. Increases a child's ability to cope with unresolved trauma and loss leading to attachment insecurities which often create stress in family and peer relationships.
About Us
read moreThe curriculum for the "Parent-Child Connections" program addresses the attachment needs of parents and children (0-8 years) and is implemented through the Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC)treatment framework. The format allows for weekly 1.0 - 2 hour sessions for 10-16 weeks. An open ended format is also be implemented if needed. Strengthening and providing corrective experiences in the relationship between parent and child. Playfulness - establishing the caregiver mindset to be flexible, child focused, and playful.
Services
read moreTouchstone Therapy Center is contracted with the Utah Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to provide therapy for special needs children in state custody and their adoptive families. These services are paid by Medicaid. Therapy services for families who adopt special needs children through the Utah Division of Child and Family Services are paid with specially allocated Medicaid funding. Additionally, post-adopt funding through DCFS allows us to provide in-home therapeutic services and respite by a qualified therapeutic nanny or mentor.