Thompson Partners with Local MCOs to Offer Short-Term Residential Care
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson) is launching two new residential programs aimed at providing short-term crisis stabilization services to adolescents within the custody of Departments of Social Services. One program is a partnership with Cardinal Innovations. The other program, similar in structure, is a collaboration with Alliance Health. Both programs […]
Thompson Implements Family Treatment Model, Expands to Underserved Communities
New collaboration with Healthy Blue to help launch home-based family therapy services in underserved communities across Cumberland County. CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson), in collaboration with Healthy Blue, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina’s (Blue Cross NC) Medicaid managed care plan, is launching a model of home-based family […]
Colin finds a forever home
Colin loves everything about music – listening to music, playing music and making up tunes on almost anything that can make a sound. This love has been a key tool in his treatment and coping skills. Colin has been in DSS custody for over three years – removed from his mother into foster care due […]
The Emotional Impact of the Pandemic on Children and Helping Parents Provide Support
As the winds of normalcy seem to be blowing in a positive direction, I grow in my concern that our fast-paced, short-attention-span society is going to move forward so quickly that we will lose sight of the lingering pain experienced by so many over the last year. Many of these wounds are under the […]
Ms Guzman finds motivation in Family Education classes
Ms. Guzman is a busy young mom, striving to improve things for her two children – four year old whom she shares custody with the child’s father, and an infant for whom she has full custody. Ms. Guzman works full-time and was struggling to balance work and childcare; DSS referred Ms. Guzman to our Family […]
When children receive pools of support, everything is possible
Children deserve a support system growing up; they deserve to have that deep reserve of support ready to dive into at any point. By Kaylee Eberhardt – Contributing Writer, Thompson Child & Family Focus Apr 1, 2021 Charlotte, N.C. – I grew up confident of my parents’ love, sure of their affection. I would […]