A Home Within Dr. Toni Vaughn Heineman Fellowship Awarded 2006  A Home Within seeks to heal the trauma of chronic loss experienced by foster children and to improve the foster care system by building positive lasting relationships and continuous connections through direct services, professional training, public awareness, and advocacy. A Home Within harnesses the power and experience of mental health practitioners in the private sector to offer high quality, lasting psychotherapy to children in foster care. Therapists volunteer to see one child in weekly psychotherapy until the treatment comes to a natural close; senior clinicians offer pro bono consultation groups to the therapists who provide direct services. Through the simple formula of "One child. One therapist. For as long as it takes," the network of clinicians in A Home Within offers a powerful bridge between the private and public sectors. Dr. Toni Vaughn Heineman, the founder, has been in private practice in San Francisco as a psychologist for over twenty-five years. She received her Master's Degree in Social Work and in Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Doctorate in Mental Health from the University of California, San Francisco, where she is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. You can read more about A Home Within at www.ahomewithin.org. |
