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Halton Intensive In-Home Program (HIP)

What is the Halton Intensive In-Home Program (HIP)?

The Halton Intensive In-Home Program provides home-based treatment services. It provides support to families who are struggling with managing their child’s behaviour(s) and/or are considering a residential placement. Generally, the service is provided in the youth/family home, however, the program also offers in-office and virtual options if preferred.

Is the Halton Intensive In-Home Program right for your child?

The Halton Intensive In-Home Program is right for your child if they:

  • is 6-11 years old (in some cases children outside this age range may be eligible);
  • and their family have exhausted most community supports before being referred to this program;
  • is dealing with mental health issues (some children may also have complex needs such as a developmental disability, a mild range of cognitive impairment, high functioning autism). Mental health must be primary concern;
  • and their family can commit to 3-4 appointments per week, totalling 5–7 hours.
What is the focus of the Halton Intensive In-Home Program?

The goal of this program is to keep the child in the family home and avoid a residential placement as well as to improve communication and to increase skills around problem-solving. This is done by providing intensive services and support to the child and their family.

The services are strength based, community based and culturally inclusive. Services include:

  • a family centred approach: joint problem solving and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (therapy designed to address more complex behaviours);
  • parent coaching: families learn new skills and techniques to improve communication and problem solving within the family;
  • respite referral, if needed;
  • wraparound for service coordination and collaboration; and
  • in-home support/liaison with community supports.

Make A Referral

For Referral to the program please contact:
Access and System Navigation at ROCK (Reach Out Centre for Kids)

Phone: 1-289-266-0036
Online: https://rockreferral.coyote365.com/
Fax: 1-905-681-7477 *Mark Attention Access & System Navigation*

Location

Intensive in-home services are provided in the family home and in various community sites.

Schedule

This program is designed to provide up to 6 months of intensive service. Up to 6 months of follow up support is also provided.

Fee

There is no cost for the Halton Intensive In-Home Program.

Once a referral is made, the family, all services working with them and the Woodview team will meet. The Woodview team will work together with all the services to develop a system of in-home care and support. This system will be customized to meet each family’s needs and strengths.

The outreach worker became part of our family. She cared for us as an entire family unit. She used strategies that helped all the members of our family. The strategies she taught our son, she also taught and reinforced with our other 3 children and modeled for us to use with our other children as well. She really truly saved our family. I genuinely can’t say enough praise about her passion and confidence in her role. Also, the support she provided with school issues and support was invaluable. Her confidence in running the meetings (as the moderator) was respected by all the school personnel and her expertise was the catalyst for positive changes in his programming and support at school. She is truly so passionate and a confident expert in what could be an incredibly difficult field. Our worker is honestly the best thing that has happened to our family and we will miss her so incredibly much. She truly saved us and made us all feel special, respected and empowered us. She even went out of her way to attend events that were important to my son, like his school concert. She was always available, no matter what time our mini crisis was occurring, she would make sure to help us through it. She is such an asset to our family and to Woodview.

Parent

Without the support, encouragement, expertise, love, unrelenting non-judgemental — I don’t know where my son, my children and my family would be right now! The staff and this program saved us!! Words on this paper don’t express how I really feel — which is eternally grateful. All the staff were amazing!

Parent

I liked that I got to meet new friends and learn new skills. That is what I like most about this program and I like that the staff helped me learn new skills.

Youth

The staff are what I like the most.

Youth

93% of youth responded that they felt respected at Woodview.

Client Satisfaction Survey Results 2018