Providing supportive interventions in homes, schools and communities that foster positive interactions among children and adolescents, parents, families, teachers, and other community members.
The following services are designated for children and adolescents who are 17 years of age or younger. Clients can receive these services in addition to non-intensive outpatient services.
Community Support
Our community support staff provides rehabilitative, environmental support and resource coordination to assist youth and their family in gaining access to necessary services. Additionally, our community support staff serves as the primary coordinator of behavioral health services and provides linkage to community; general entitlements; and psychiatric, substance use disorder, medical services, crisis prevention and intervention services.
Community Transition Planning
Prior to release from a facility, our staff assists our C&A clients in the coordination of the care, service, and support needs of youth to ensure a coordinated plan of transition from a qualifying facility back to their community is completed and implemented. During this transition, we educate the individual, family, and/or caregivers on service options offered by the chosen primary service agency; and we participate in facility treatment team meetings to develop a transition plan.
In partnership with external community service providers and the hospital/facility staff, our staff implements transitional activities either by the individual’s chosen primary service coordinator or by the service coordinator’s designated Community Transition Liaison prior to discharge.
Children and Adolescents Specialty Services
Intensive Family Intervention
Intensive Family Intervention (IFI) services are intended to improve family functioning by clinically stabilizing the living arrangement, preventing the child’s or adolescent’s out-of-home therapeutic venues (e.g., psychiatric hospital, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic residential intervention services0, and promoting reunification for the identified child or adolescent. Services are delivered by utilizing a team approach and are provided primarily to the child or adolescent in their living arrangements and within the family system.
