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One way we advanced our vision where all children are thriving within their families and communities is through Intensive Permanence Services (IPS). At its root, IPS establishes healing, belonging, and community for child welfare’s most disconnected youth and their families who have been separated, while in its implementation, becomes an onramp to mindset and practice shift across an entire agency or system.

Part of Alia’s system’s improvement work involves case consultations with a lens of healing and belonging. We call these consultations Healing and Belonging Labs, and they are much different than case consultations child welfare workers may expect. Our Healing and Belonging Labs involve Team Alia working with a small group of agency staff, supervisors, and collateral contacts to discover underlying dynamics and untapped solutions for difficult youth or family situations.

Have you ever had a youth who bounced around from home to home to home, and finally this home seems to work? Or maybe the youth has moved from group home to residential, then back to a group home, and then back to residential again, and they seem to only “do well” when they are in a residential setting?