Therapeutic Foster Care:
A home where a child with a serious emotional disturbance lives with trained foster parents with access to other support services. These foster parents receive special support from organizations that provide crisis intervention, psychiatric, psychological, and social work services. The intended length of this care is usually from 6 to 12 months.

Therapeutic Group Homes:
Community-based, home-like settings that provide intensive treatment services to a small number of young people (usually 5 to 10 persons). These young people work on issues that require 24-hour-per-day supervision. The home should have many connections within an interagency system of care. Psychiatric services offered in this setting try to avoid hospital placement and to help the young person move toward a less restrictive living situation.

Transitional Services:
Services that help children leave the system that provides help for children and move into adulthood and the adult service system. Help includes mental health care, independent living services, supported housing, vocational services, and a range of other support services.