Provided Services

TMT Consulting believes in and utilizes a trauma informed, strength based,  Family Centered Services perspective. Family-Centered Services seek to empower the family and minimize its dependence upon the social service system. Our agency believes it is important to embrace certain basic beliefs and convey certain attitude when working with families. Some of these basic beliefs are:

• All individuals deserve to be treated with respect.
• The focus is on family strengths as well as needs. Acknowledging family strengths can help identify areas of hope and opportunity for the family which will in turn empower and engage the family in the treatment development process.
• Problems that affect individuals are usually symptoms of other underlying problems within the family system. The problem is not within the individual, but a result of dysfunctional relationships between individuals.
• Blaming an individual is counter-productive. It does not reflect the goal of strengthening the entire family system. More than one person usually contributes to the presenting problems.
• Eliciting family participation in an assessment processes enhances the likelihood of case success. Families are the most knowledgeable source about themselves. Involving them in the process signals empowerment and allows them to identify their own needs. Their input may provide new insight into the situation and offset pre-conceived notions.

Embrace and Embrace U are Domestic Violence Batterer’s Intervention Programs (BIP) that are intended to provide treatment for people who have used violence to exert power and control over another person. The intervention program is intended to help clients modify behavior patterns and break the cycle of violence by learning new skills around power and control, and accountability and communication. The Embrace/U program provides educational group sessions for people who are abusive in their relationships (abusive can be physical, emotional, mental, or sexual). Our agencies programs are credentialed by the State of Missouri.

Tasca Tolson is a skilled mental health professional with years of experience in various roles within the mental health field. She has specialized in treating substance abuse and alcoholism for many years and now also works closely with teens & adults experiencing depression, relationship issues and recovery from trauma. She works with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds with a special emphasis on supporting historically marginalized populations.

Family-Centered Services Case Consultation provides consultation services to designated recipients regarding specific families and/or general family practice. This can be done either in individual or group session formats. The services shall be reflective of a Family-Centered Model for accomplishing child protective services and in-home child welfare services.

Family Centered Meetings provide assistance to designated recipients with the purpose of enhancing the skills of the designated recipients. This is done by conducting/facilitating meetings regarding families involved with the Department and to serve families. This may include intact families, families with children at imminent risk of out-of-home placement, and families with children in out-of-home care. This service is reflective of a Family-Centered Model for accomplishing child protective services and in-home child welfare services. Family meetings include, but are not limited to, family support team meetings, family staffing, family conference, and team decision meetings.

The Pervasive Developmental Services Coordinator provides assistance with treatment plan development, consultation, environmental manipulation and training to and for clients with developmental disabilities whose maladaptive behaviors are significantly disrupting their progress toward a successful family environment. The contractor shall locate services and assist in referrals to service providers as needed to help meet the client’s needs.

Training and consultation with the client’s caregivers and service providers will be provided as needed to assist in caring for the client. The Pervasive Developmental Services Coordinator will assist the client and/or the client’s caregivers in designing and implementing specialized programs to enhance self-direction, independent living skills, community integration, social, leisure, and recreational skills. The Pervasive Developmental Services Coordinator will evaluate the client’s setting, schedule, typical daily activities, relationships with others that make up the supports for an individual including their caregivers and any service providers. The Pervasive Developmental Services Coordinator will then develop and implement strategies to help teach the client skills to promote more positive interactions between the client and their support system.

TMT Consulting shall provide a comprehensive assessment to assist in the development of an individualized treatment plan. Prior to completing the assessment, the writer shall communicate with the Department’s referring case manager to discuss the client’s known substance abuse history, the Department’s treatment goals as they relate to substance abuse, and any other pertinent information that will assist our agency in developing treatment recommendations.

The assessment at minimal will include:

• Demographic and identifying information
• Statement of client needs, goals, and treatment expectations from the client. The client’s family’s impressions are also obtained, when appropriate and available.
• Presenting situation/problem.
• History of previous psychiatric and/or substance abuse treatment including identity of previous providers and number and type of admissions.
• Health screening.
• Current medications and identification of any medication allergies and adverse reaction.
• Recent alcohol and drug use during the past thirty (30) days and a substance use history that includes duration, patterns, and consequences of use.
• Current psychiatric symptoms.
• Family, social, legal, and vocational/educational status and functioning.
• Current use of resources and services from other community agencies.
• Personal and social resources and strengths, including the availability and use of family, social, peer, and other natural supports.
• Diagnostic impression in accordance with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association 5th edition.
• Collection and assessment of historical data
• Summary of identified treatment needs and recommendations for level of care.

TMT Consulting shall provide a structured, goal-oriented therapeutic process in which the Department’s client interacts on a face-to-face basis with a counselor in accordance with the client’s rehabilitation plan to resolve problems related to substance abuse that interfere with the client’s functioning.

Individual counseling may include, but is not limited to the following:

• Exploration of an identified problem and its impact on participant functioning.
• Examination of attitudes and feelings, and behaviors that promote recovery and improved functioning.
• Identification and consideration of alternatives and structured problem-solving.
• Decision-making.

TMT Consulting provides group education with two or more participants that consists of the presentation of substance abuse information and application of the information by participants through group discussion in accordance to the client’s treatment plan.

Group therapeutic substance abuse education may include, but is not limited to the following:

• Classroom style didactic lecture to present information about various topics and its relationship to substance abuse.
• Education material with followed up discussions required.
• Generalization of the information and demonstration of its relevance to recovery and enhanced functioning.
• The progressive nature of addiction and the disease model, principles, and availability of self-help groups and health and nutrition
• The personal recovery process, including the recognition of addictive thinking, feelings, and behavior, promoting self-awareness and self-esteem, encouraging personal responsibility and constructively using leisure time
• Promotion of positive family relationships and family recovery.
• Relapse prevention.
• Effects Skill development, such as communication skills, stress reduction and management, conflict resolution, decision making, assertiveness training, completing employment applications and employment interviewing and parenting.
• Effects of alcohol and drug abuse upon pregnancy and child development.