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Residents come to live at the VFW National Home for Children through a detailed referral process. Special care is taken to ensure the National Home can effectively serve the children and/or family interested in residency. A “fit” with the National Home’s philosophy and programming is necessary for children and families to benefit fully from residency at the National Home. Below is a detailed look at the process National Home staff guide a family through to determine that everyone’s needs can be met.
National Home Referral Process
- Contact the National Home Program Department
- Program representative speaks with individual and develops a statement of need, including full contact information for the child or family
- Call is referred to Case Manager who speaks with single parent or child’s parent or guardian to discuss:
- Immediate needs
- National Home Program detail
- Initial family information
- Eligibility to live at the National Home
- National Home sends general information brochure
- Referral is now officially considered “open”
- Single Parent Family Program:
- Case Manager sends application
- Single parent completes application, including family, health, legal and employment history
- Upon receipt of completed application, family is scheduled for in-depth interview
- Single parent participates in in-depth interview with Single Parent Family Team
- Case Manager contacts individuals affiliated with single parent and children
- Case Manager develops report on needs of the family and how the National Home may help the family meet those needs
- Single Parent Family Team makes recommendation for admission to Program Director and Executive Director
- Program Director and Executive Director review Single Parent Family Team Report and make recommendation to either:
- Place family on pre-admission waiting list and begin Program Case Management services;
- Conduct further research into appropriateness of National Home Single Parent Family program; or
- Determine that family is not best served by the National Home’s Single Parent Family Program
- If pre-admission is determined, family move takes place when there is space available and parent begins program for success lasting for up to three years
- Residential Program
- Case Manager begins full assessment of child’s family and educational history, as well as social and emotional health
- Child/guardian and Case Manager speak often, in person if possible
- Child/guardian make a campus visit if possible
- Case Manager contacts individuals affiliated with child
- Case Manager assembles Residential Referral Team to assess National Home’s ability to meet needs of the child
- Case Manager and Residential Referral Team make recommendation to Program Director and Executive Director
- If National Home is determined as the best setting for the child, relationship is initiated with Child Care Workers on campus
- When there is space available for child, move takes place
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