Carroll County Local Management Board---a premier FTTIM implementation site---and Carroll County Youth Service Bureau Inc., win the SAMHSA 2009 Science and Service Award by showcasing their successful implementation of Brief Strategic Family Therapy because they believe in healthy families. See the happy faces below:
Angela Chmar, Patsy Shaffer, Olga Hervis (FTTIM), Bobby Jarrett, Lynn Davis, Diana Vaughan and Carol Bolles
Last Updated on:: 03 / 10 / 2010
FTTIM - The Family Therapy Training Institute of Miami™
Welcome to The Family Therapy Training Institute of Miami™
Home of the award winning Brief Strategic Family Therapy Training
Welcome to our resource center. FTTIM takes great pride in providing certification training on the award-winning evidence based practices Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) and Family Effectiveness Training (FET). Our goal is to maximize the effectiveness of treatment of troubled children and adolescents by all relevant community, social service, and mental health care givers. To that end we hope you will find our website informative, user-friendly, and thought-provoking. And don't forget to review the Funding Links at right!
NOTICE - Brief Strategic Family Therapy and its acronym BSFT is not a registered trademark, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in a ruling December 2009. We champion this freedom from trademark infringement on behalf of all BSFT providers. For further details visit ourFAQpage.
"The staff at FTTIM is extremely helpful and has been supportive of my staff and mission of District Heights Family and Youth Services Center. Our experience with Silvia [Kaminsky, Master Trainer] has been terrific. She not only is a mentor to the newly certified BSFT clinicians, but also a professional colleague that we admire and trust. Thank you for the wonderful experience even though we are miles away."
District Heights Family and Youth Services Center partners with the Family Therapy Training Institute of Miami to provide Brief Strategic Family Therapy for at-risk youth and their families.
The District Heights Family and Youth Services Center, a longtime partner of the Family Therapy Training Institute of Miami, runs a family counseling service called the Children in Need of Supervision Program, also known as CINS. CINS is run in partnership with Prince George\'s County Department of Juvenile Services.
"CINS began in April 2008 in District Heights as a way to prevent troubled youths from entering the juvenile justice system", said Priscilla
