The Family And Child Together (F.A.C.T.) Program provides family based mental health treatment to children with emotional disturbances and their families. The goal is to assist families in maintaining the child or adolescent in the home. Parents are viewed as essential collaborators in the process of identifying, clarifying, and practicing new behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs which will allow families to remain in tact. The family is seen as the means of positive change and thus the goal is to promote competency in the family unit. Professional team members work to assist the families in finding individualized, alternative methods to meet their own family's needs, other than placement of the child.

The model for the Family Based Services (FBS) program focuses on a non-traditional, hands-on approach working with the strengths and resources of the family. FBS is characterized by intensive services driven by the need level of the family.

Family based treatment interventions begin with the family's reality, striving to join positively during times of crisis. A holistic family systems approach begins with listening to the family's own definition of itself and of its problems. It continues with the provision of services in the family's home and community respecting socio-economic, geographic, and cultural differences. It is expected that most services are provided in the family's home. The interdependence of the child, the family, and their environment are incorporated in a systemic view of treatment. With the family systems approach, the child or adolescent becomes the entry into the family unit rather than focus remaining entirely in the identified child.