HomeBase (In-Home Services)

BRC’s HomeBase Program provides intensive in-home services to children who are struggling with severe behavioral and emotional difficulties. These problems often affect the child’s ability to function safely in the home and community, to the extent that they are considered “at-risk”. Our treatment is designed to focus on the needs of the child and to strengthen the family. Our counseling services are delivered in the home, where we can see the changes that will best serve the family and ensure that the child can stay at home. Referrals to HomeBase Services come from parents/llegal guardians, psychiatrists, therapists, doctors, court personnel, social workers and school counselors.

Components of HomeBase Services include an initial screening and assessment of individual and family functioning, 24-hour crisis intervention, case management, training in parenting skills, problem solving, communications, understanding emotions, anger management, coping and stress management, and discharge planning with links to appropriate community resources and outpatient services.

A Service You Can Depend On

HomeBase has been providing intensive in-home services to families in Virginia for over 15 years. When other providers’ interventions have been unsuccessful, many families choose to give The Barry Robinson Center’s HomeBase Services a chance to make a positive difference in their lives.

Additional services available through HomeBase include:

Barry Robinson Assessment Center and Alternative Treatment Interventions (ATI) are free services available to children of Hampton Roads who are identified as having serious behavioral difficulties, which increase their risk for more serious problems in the future. After the initial screening, followup sessions are offered to assist the family in identifying and connecting with community resources that will add to the stabilization and well-being of their child and family.

Mentoring Services focus on a one-to-one therapeutic relationship that addresses specific socialization and independent living skills that have been identified as necessary for the client.

Substance Abuse Group is provided to increase the client’s awareness of the effects of drugs and alcohol, increase insight into the addiction process, develop and enhance the youth’s coping skills, promote abstinence from substance abuse, and increase personal accountability and motivation for change.

Anger Management Group is designed to help children learn positive, non-violent responses to conflict and frustration. Emphasis is placed on teaching children how anger negatively affects them, developing positive communication skills, problem solving skills, and conflict resolution skills. There is also a parental component that focuses on discipline techniques, exploring ways to reinforce nonviolent behavior, building self-esteem in children, and understanding the influence of the media, and the role of the family and friends.

Prevention/ Community Outreach Programs Include:

Options To Anger is a school based anger management and conflict resolution program for youth from grades 3 to 12 who have difficulty handling strong emotions that often present as angry or aggressive behavior. This program stresses personal and interpersonal anger management techniques, team building and cooperative learning strategies that enhance self-esteem and social interaction skills, in addition to goal development and personal improvement planning.

Consultation Services are also available, providing training for staff of youth-serving professions, school, courts, and mental health agencies to implement these prevention programs in their communities.