Joining together with the community to support vulnerable children and families, the Nest North Florida serves as a resource for addressing spiritual and practical needs. We provide tools, strategies, tangible items, and funding channels for foster care supports and prevention, family stabilization and reunification, and adoption and post-adoption support.

The BRAVE program and Columbia County School District work together to connect families to Community Behavioral Health services. We are partnered with local Youth Behavioral Health agencies in order to assist in reducing barriers to care and stigma around counseling services. We are a state-funded program and free to school districts that are interested in adopting our model.

Tangible needs assistance for vulnerable children and families.

Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a short-term, high quality intervention program with an average of 12 to 14 sessions over three to five months. FFT works primarily with 11- to 18-year-old youth who have been referred for behavioral or emotional problems by the juvenile justice, mental health, school or child welfare systems. Services are conducted in both clinic and home settings, and can also be provided schools, child welfare facilities, probation and parole offices/aftercare systems and mental health facilities.

FFT is a strength-based model built on a foundation of acceptance and respect. At its core is a focus on assessment and intervention to address risk and protective factors within and outside of the family that impact the adolescent and his or her adaptive development.