Tums Family Services About - Building Better Lives and Communities

TUMS FAMILY SERVICES is dedicated to providing comprehensive yet individualized community-based services that improves the health and well-being of families.

Mission

Tums Family Service Mission is to inspire and build better lives and communities by providing quality independent living skills training to identified children, adolescents, adults, and their families; to enable individuals and families with mental health conditions to achieve and maintain community stability and independence while creating accessible equitable paradigms for each individual.

Goals

Achieve stability

Achieve emotional, mental, and familial stability

Address the problems

Address the problems that will reduce the risk of having a child removed from their home due to behavioral and emotional stress, undiagnosed emotional disorders, neglect, legal issues, abuse, or other serious family problems

Prevent hospitalization, and homelessness

Prevent out of home placement, hospitalization, and homelessness Link the individual with appropriate services based on need assessments

Create an ongoing community

Create an ongoing community support system for the client Improve coping skills and capacity to function appropriately in the home and community.

Medication Management and compliance with psychiatrist

Medication Management and compliance with psychiatric recommendations Improve interpersonal interaction and communication skills

Help reduce maladaptive behaviors

Help reduce maladaptive behaviors.

Our ultimate goal is to have our clients reach their goals so that they can become better equipped for their day to day life.

All families deserve an opportunity to succeed in society, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, socio-economic status, country of origin, ability/ disability status, sexual orientation, veteran status, relationship status, age, personality, language, communication, education, etc.

Our Staff

Our staff consists of a specialized team of Licensed Mental Health Professionals (LMHP)s, Licensee Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), Registered Behavioral Technicians (RBT)s, Behavioral Technicians (BT)s, Qualified Mental Health Professionals (QMHP)s, with over 10 years of clinical experience to help educate, manage and treat patients with behavioral concerns.