The mission of Family Redirection Institute is to identify at-risk youths, families and individuals and provide them with quality clinically based mental health treatment. Our services are designed to identify risk factors, stabilize behaviors, strengthen and preserve families and maintain individuals at home and in their community. In doing so, we strive to preserve and reunite the core family and assist individuals to develop appropriate boundaries while decreasing inappropriate behaviors. We strive to empower families and individuals to effectively utilize community and internal resources to achieve positive outcomes. Through group, individual and family sessions, our programs provide the structure, support and services to meet the needs of at-risk youth, their families and individuals while helping them deal with the risk factors within their family, community and school.
Agency Overview
Family Redirection Institute Inc. was established in July 1998 to offer services that are client centered yet family focused. We are pleased that our agency has served over three thousand seven hundred consumers and their families. The agency enjoys healthy working relationships with several agencies within the Hampton Roads area. Specifically, with the Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Western Tidewater (Suffolk, Franklin and Isle of Wight) Court Services Units, Department of Social Services, Public School System, Family Assessment Planning Teams and Community Services Boards. Family Redirection Institute Inc. provides human services for at risk and adjudicated youth and their families.
Our agency offers realistic alternatives to inappropriate behaviors caused by psychological and environmental factors. We utilize an empowerment approach to our ecological method of treatment. Our goal is to assist consumers with maximizing their internal resources to achieve positive outcomes.
Licensed Clinicians supervise a staff of well trained counselors, clinicians and paraprofessionals. Our staff work in concert with consumers and their families to find positives in the most difficult situations as a modality to encourage appropriate behavior.