Company History

 Brian D. Fears founded Choices Family Education Services in 1993.  The initial services offered were as follows: family education programs, parenting education programs, writing of behavioural management programs for facilities housing clients with developmental disabilities, providing aggression management training for staff in facilities with clients having behavioural problems, conducting seminars for working with the elderly or people with disabilities, conducting pre- survey surveys for facilities housing clients with developmental disabilities.

 In 1995, the agency began providing divorce mediation services and moved into consulting for Hamilton Life Institute in Chicago Illinois performing clinical evaluations, psychological testing, and custody evaluation.

 In 1996, the agency began offering psychotherapy services under the supervision of Kathleen Menocal.  Our focus was marriage and family therapy; however, our main clientele were children and adolescents.  We also began an intensive in- home counseling program for families identified to have need for such service.  We continued offering seminars in parenting becoming more specific in the type of parenting programs offered.  We offered a group in parenting young children, parenting adolescents, and parenting trouble teens.  We also began marriage enrichment training classes at that time.

 In 1999, the agency became a state certified mental health clinic offering counseling and therapy, group therapy, mentoring services, school evaluations and tutorial services in addition to the services previously listed. 

January of 2000 Choices increased its staff to nine therapist, two parent aids, six mentors, two tutors, one psychiatrist, one psychologist and a new building.  We also received certification for providing AODA services.

Choices experience working with juvenile justice and child protective services

 In 1998 Owner and practitioner, Brian Fears participated in OJJDP training in child sexual exploitation investigations and child abuse and exploitation investigative techniques. The plan was to bring this experience into the community offering both the police department and Social Services assistance in investigating and preventing further exploitation of youth.

 Choices Family Education Services has provided psychotherapy services to at- risk families for over three years, including an intensive in- home psychotherapy service program.  Many youth received services in their school in order to decrease delinquent and or disruptive behaviours.

 Owner, Brian Fears, under the Counseling and Development Center, assisted in redeveloping the structure of the previous Report Center program.  Adding in behavioral goals and goal specific documentation, attendance monitoring and tracking of student in schoolwork and behaviour, and case management. 

Choices Family Education Services had a contracted with Sheboygan County DHHS providing mentoring and counseling services. 

Choices Family Education Services staff has years of experience working with at- risk families and youth.