Each child has their own child and family team (CFT), which is filled with both formal and informal supports. Formal supports would include their care manager and psychiatrist, while informal supports could be parents or any other friend or relative. It is detrimental for the youth to know who to contact if they are going through a crisis or just simply having a bad day. Those in their CFT are there for the child for whatever they need, even on good days when they need someone to let them know they did something they were proud of. CFT meetings allow these supports to voice what they have seen in the youth's life. They could recommend an increase in things such as meeting with a group to increase social skills to an increase/adjustment in medication. The youth is not present in the the CFT meetings since they discuss things in the meetings about the child, and sometimes it is better to bounce ideas off of the team before presenting them to the youth.
