Our ACT Solution

Positive Behavioral Solutions serves children, adolescents, teens, and families who…

• Are in Foster Care

• Have been in Foster Care

• In the Adoption Process

• Have become Adopted

ACT is an evidence-based, trauma-informed, and attachment based therapeutic model to support Foster and Adoptive Families.

ACT offers tools, techniques, and interventions for Therapists to use with Foster and Adoptive families to…

• Develop positive attachments with family members

• Develop positive safety and coping skills while processing trauma that may accompany being in foster care or being adopted.

• Provide support to families who are in the process of foster to adoption, or those who recently adopted.

• And More!

At Positive Behavioral Solutions, we train our therapists and other community mental health professionals to be adoption competent to offer Adoption Competent Therapy.

Our Therapists and Community Professionals learn:

• The psychology of adoption.

• Life cycle experiences and developmental stages of adopted children.

• Issues of adoption and foster care infants and older children.

• Trauma-Informed Care and Attachment-Focused Therapy

• A family-focused, systematic wraparound approaches to therapy for foster and adopted children, families, and teens.

• How to manage behavioral problems and discipline children and families who have experienced trauma.

How Do I Know if I Qualify?

• Your family, child, adolescent, or teen is in foster care, in the process of becoming adopted, or has been adopted.

• Your family, child, adolescent, or teen is struggling to adjust to their new environment and family dynamic.

• Your family, child, adolescent, or teen is experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, or behavioral concerns.

To make a referral for ACT:

• Call our main office at 321-972-4265

• Email us at referrals@pbsfl.org

• Fill out our online referral form by clicking the “Sign Up for ACT Therapy Here!”