North American Family Institute

Evidence based services: North American Family Institute offers two evidence based prevention services, known as parenting with love and limits (pll) and Family functional therapy (fft). Pll works with adjudicated delinquents in the state of Florida that includes Family support, community connections and educational and therapeutic resources. Fft is an intensive, short-term therapeutic model that offers in-home Family counseling designed specifically to work with youth in the Florida child welfare system. Nafi is expanding this service to include work with youth in foster care as a way to reconnect the youth back to their permanency Family placement.

Residential services: North American Family Institute opened a residential program in Florida, known as the welcome and respite center. This program provides short-term respite, assessment and intervention services in a community based residential setting. The program is designed to benefit families by positively impacting youth who are new to the child welfare system or have had numerous unsuccessful past placements. The goal is to stabilize and assess the youth to ensure a successful community placement with the needed wrap around resources.

Senior services: North American Family Institute offers alternative services to seniors. Homecare choices offers a new level of companion and quality in home care services on cape cod and the islands. Homecare choices offers a unique, customized and client-focused experience to seniors seeking to remain happily and safely at home, on their own terms.

Other programs consists of community building services and intercompany transactions with four subsidiary corporations and contibution revenue. North American Family Institute offers alternative services to youth based on peer empowerment, group work, accountability and recognition for positive choices. Youth link is an innovative prevention initiative that offers a system of skills and strategies that are combined to build lasting trust and positive relationships between youth and the community of adults in their lives. Youth link services engage youth and communitites in positive social change to reduce violence and gang involvement by creating sustainable positive relationships among teens and adults, replacing animosity and distrust with mutual respect and understanding.