Sunday, April 27, 2025
4/27/2025
King County Family Treatment Court - King County Family Treatment Court (KCFTC) is both expanding and enhancing its evidence-based services for drug addicted parents in the child welfare system by building capacity and further enhancing those services through the use of an appointed Family Recovery Support Specialist. This position is specifically designed for family drug courts and seeks to improve both treatment and child well-being outcomes. KCFTC works with court-involved men and women struggling with parenting and substances. The special needs of these families include mental health, homelessness, parenting skills, employment, domestic violence, and complex trauma histories. KCFTC has had a consistent waitlist of at least 50 children and roughly 30 parents who cannot receive services due to limitations. KCFTC seeks to expand its capacity through the recruitment of an additional Court Specialist, Treatment Specialist and CASA Attorney while also enhancing services with the implementation of peer based support through the recruitment of two Family Recovery Support Specialists trained in the evidenced-based practice of Motivational Interviewing. Through this project KCFTC be able to serve an additional 32 clients in the first year, 35 in the second and 29 in the last year for a total of 96 unduplicated clients served over the lifetime of the grant. The goals of the KCFTC expansion and enhancement remain consistent with the existing goals of KCFTC: ensure that children have a safe and permanent homes within the permanency planning guidelines or sooner; ensure that families of color have outcomes from dependency cases similar to white families; ensure that parents are better able to care for themselves and their children and seek resources to do so The University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of Public Behavioral Health, a long established partner with KCFTC, will provide support for data collection, performance measurement and will develop a data-driven improvement process for the Court.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).