FOUNDING DISCIPLINES OF THE BODEGA MODEL

The Bodega Model® is a blend of four founding disciplines that all lend to its efficacy.

Family systems:

This perspective holds that there is no single cause of family stress or conflict—rather, tension originates within the relationships that constitute a family system. In the Bodega Model, solutions come from understanding how families and other systems work together—how the members influence each other and their relationships.

Strength-based:

This evolving approach to counseling and therapy is built on the belief that all people have competencies and dreams; all communities are oases of resources. The Bodega Model looks for and builds on strengths in families, government partners, and systems, rather than focusing solely on problems and deficits.

Case management:

For purposes of the Bodega Model, case management is defined as a series of systematic interventions and interactions aimed at helping one or more individuals to identify and utilize all the resources at their disposal, both internal and external.

Community partnership:

This may be the Bodega Model's most creative and challenging discipline. Community partnership proposes that communities have strengths and resources to bring to the table that may be critical to effect change. The Bodega Model builds on community partnerships by recognizing a neighborhood's formal and informal supports of families, such as faith-based institutions, neighbors, health-care facilities, and schools. In addition, the Bodega Model purports that just as families and communities have important resources to offer, so do government and justice agencies. Supervision officers are welcomed to the team as allies, not adversaries who must be battled or circumvented.