Youth

Children's Behavioral Health

The Children’s Behavioral Health program provides Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services, Care Coordination, Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, a Family Support Team, and Family Substance Abuse Treatment.

Services include:

• Crisis assistance 24hours/ 7 days a week
• Comprehensive assessment of the treatment needs of the child and family
• Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and services
• Development and implementation of a comprehensive treatment plan
• Clinically informed case management and case coordination
• Individual and family therapy
• Crisis intervention and medication management
• Promotion of effective advocacy
• School consultation
• Smooth transitions to adult service systems are facilitated
• Services are sensitive and responsive to cultural differences and special needs
• Stabilization and maintenance of children with serious disorders in their homes and communities
• Prevention of hospitalization through crisis intervention
• Identification of factors interfering with the child and family’s use of more traditional outpatient services
• Improvement of quality of “fit” between child and family to optimize developmental progress.

Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services/ Care Coordination
Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services and family-focused, child-centered, community-based, individualized, and culturally competent services to children diagnosed with behavioral disorders.  Early identification and intervention are important components. Services are provided free of charge to eligible children under the age of 18 for an average period of 6 months.

Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS)
A program for children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders and their families. IICAPS is able to work with families for up to 6 months. Services vary in intensity from 3 to 20 hours per week. This program serves children and youth ages 3 to 18 years old with complex psychiatric disorders, children being discharged from psychiatric hospitalizaiton, and children who are at imminent risk of hospitalization.

Family Support Team
An integrated team comprised of masters level professionals in concert with a paraprofessional staff who provide a variety of support services. The program serves children and youth ages 3 to 19 years old with complex psychiatric and family difficulties, children returning from out of home care, children entering treatment foster care, and children at risk of out of home care. There is a broad focus encompassing psychiatric, medical, educational, vocational, rehabilitative and family systems.

Family Substance Abuse Treatment
An intensive in-home program that provides substance abuse treatment and comprehensive support services to adolescents with underlying mental health issues and their families. This program serves children and youths ages 11 to 17 years old with delinquent behavior and/ or substance abouse problems.