"Of mind, body, and spirit": therapeutic foster care--an innovative approach to healing from an NTU perspective.

This article examines Progressive Life Center's (PLC) innovative Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) program, and its incorporation of a unique clinical approach, NTU (pronounced in-to) psychotherapy, into its program model. PLC is an African American private nonprofit community-based organization that strives to improve the delivery of mental health services through culturally competent therapeutic techniques. PLC expanded its services to include TFC for seriously emotionally disturbed children, ages 2 to 18. All PLC services are delivered within the spiritual and cultural framework of NTU.