Fostering Healthy Futures® for Preteens (FHF-P)
Fostering Healthy Futures (FHF-P) for Preteens is a program for preadolescent children, ages 9-11, that includes mentoring and group-based skills training to reduce adverse outcomes and promote healthy development. Skills groups provide an opportunity for children who have all experienced ACEs to process their experiences and practice important social skills, such as feelings identification, problem solving, and healthy coping. Individualized mentoring that begins with relationship building allows children to practice healthy psychosocial skills
in real-world settings.
Studies have demonstrated that children who participated in FHF-P
evidenced:
- Better mental health functioning
- Fewer trauma symptoms
- Less mental health treatment
- Less delinquency/justice involvement
- Higher quality of life
- Fewer placement changes
- Less residential treatment
- Higher rates of permanency
Program outcomes are consistent with FFPSA goals including supporting evidence-based programs, increasing permanency, reducing congregate care, improving mental health, and supporting kinship care.