Who We Serve
FOSTER CARE
Fostering begins with a big heart, but it can be overwhelming. When stressful behaviors emerge in children, foster parents may find themselves wanting to give up. Chosen is here to help you persevere with foster care services.
ADOPTIVE FAMILIES
Trauma occurs when a child is separated from their birth parents. Adoptive parents may struggle with addressing trauma and attaching to a child who has gone through adoption. Chosen can help you find connection and healing.
BIRTH PARENTS
Birth parents who are reunified with their children are trying their best to reconnect with their children and stabilize their homes. Chosen gives reunified families the tools they need to heal together.
KINSHIP CAREGIVERS
Often, kinship caregivers do not expect to be in this position. When a grandparent or extended family member welcomes a child into their home, Chosen provides resources to help navigate the situation.
Get Started With Two
Complimentary Sessions
Let Chosen help you and your family find hope & healing.
You are not alone! Contact us today.
TOOLS DESIGNED TO TRANSFORM HOMES.
Discover Chosen's Model of Care
Chosen’s team of licensed, trauma-informed practitioners do whatever it takes to bring hope, help, and healing to families impacted by the child welfare system. Our team is ready to walk alongside you with our proven, customizable Model of Care. If your family needs foster care services, we are here to help with compassion fatigue, guidance after an adoption, or other needs.
We’ve been where you are. Your matched care manager will hear you with compassion and without judgment. With decades of lived experience and best-in-class trauma-informed training, we will walk alongside you and set your family on a path of healing.
Individualized Parent Coaching
Chosen’s care managers provide one-on-one coaching using curricula tailored to your needs.
Therapeutic Resources
Chosen matches you with evidence-informed, trauma-focused therapeutic services and resources.
Personalized Case Management
Chosen connects you with the local third-party resources you need to help your family thrive together.
Crisis Support
If a difficult event occurs outside of your scheduled parent coaching session, we’re available to help.
Trauma Education
We offer best-in-class teaching so you can parent your children in a way that takes their history into account.
Clinical Assessments
Your coaching and action plan is based on measured levels of stress and trauma behaviors.
WHAT HAPPENS DURING AN APPOINTMENT?
Your care manager uses the information gathered during your session to create a plan that will work for your family.
Personalized Care
& Direction
Your care manager will listen to you and walk alongside you on your path of healing. You may be experiencing parent burnout or something else as a caregiver. All resources and discussions will be tailored to your family’s unique needs.
Take-Home
Resources
Your care manager will provide access to the resources, including attachment exercises, tips to manage behaviors, and recommendations for third-party resources to help Florida families in your community. Whether you’re in Orlando or Miami, Florida, your tools will be just right.
Weekly
Action Plan
You will leave your session with a Weekly Action Plan to bring your family closer together. Activities range from self-care exercises, to scheduling appointments, to family bonding activities.
UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS & SIDE-EFFECTS OF TREATMENT
Medication Consultation
Chosen’s Model of Care includes a consultation and educational service for parents considering or already using medication as part of their child’s treatment. While Chosen does not prescribe medication, our board-certified family nurse practitioner helps parents understand the benefits and side-effects of treatments prescribed by the family’s medical provider. These consultations are offered with a trauma-informed, educational focus designed to aid parents in making decisions about their child’s treatment.
OUR CARE TEAM MEETS FAMILIES WHERE THEY ARE
Chosen Teaches Attachment Style Connection
Our care team offers trauma-informed care that’s individualized and compassionate. We teach attachment style connection and use Dr. Bruce Perry’s powerful dosing method. Our team has over 143 years of combined experience working with children and their families impacted by the child welfare system.
Chosen’s care team uses industry-standard best practices and hold a variety of licenses, certifications, and degrees, including:
Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) Providers
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) is a therapeutic model of care that trains caregivers to provide support and treatment for at-risk children. It has been used effectively with children and youth of all ages and all risk levels.
Licensed Professional Counselors (LPCs)
Licensed Professional Counselors (LPCs) are master’s-level mental health service professionals, trained to work with individuals, families, and groups in treating mental, behavioral, and emotional problems and disorders.
Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs)
Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs) are master’s-level social workers with extensive professional training and expertise in mental health. They provide psychotherapy and counseling to clients.
Licensed Master Social Workers (LMSWs)
Licensed Master Social Workers (LMSWs) work in a variety of care or agency settings to deliver therapy, counseling, and life-betterment services to people who need them.
Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs)
A Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs) are registered nurses with specialized educational and clinical training in family practice. Nurse practitioners have a high degree of training in both the classroom and clinical settings.
Clinical Offerings
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Family-Centered
Therapy
Therapy
Dyadic Developmental
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy
Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral
Therapy
Therapy
Motivational
Interviewing
Interviewing
*We develop many of the materials we use based on the specific needs of our families.
"This has been the most helpful hour I’ve had about my daughter in years of searching, and I’ve talked to the most respected professionals I could find. You really understand, and what you’re saying truly resonates with me."
The Chosen Effect
Aggression reduction
in children & adolescents
Anxiety reduction in children & adolescents
Depression reduction in children & adolescents
Dissociation reduction in children & adolescents
Total stress reduction in children & adolescents
Post-traumatic stress reduction in children & adolescents
588
Foster Disruptions
171
Adoption Dissolutions
216
Kinship Disruptions
OUR PRICES ARE BASED ON A SLIDING SCALE
All families receive two free complimentary sessions.
After that, fees are based on family size and household income. We believe our services should be available to all and that finances should never hinder a family from healing. If you are ready to begin your journey toward healing, contact us today.
Meet Our Intake Specialist
Payton Barksdale is a Care Manager and Intake Specialist at Chosen. She is likely to be the first person to welcome you. Her empathy and personal experience will help you and your family feel comfortable.
