Explanation of Program Types:
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Clinic treatment programs offer traditional outpatient mental health services such as
assessment, individual, family, and group therapies and medication management.
Treatment is offered from a variety of sites including schools, community offices and
other locations.
Child and Family Clinic-Plus One of our newest and most exciting services, Clinic-Plus
brings family engagement, screening, comprehensive assessment, in-home treatment
and evidence based treatment into clinic settings working with children and their
families.
Day treatment programs provide services designed to stabilize children's adjustment
to educational settings, to prepare children to return to educational settings, and to
transition children to educational settings. Day treatment services for children and
adolescent provide intensive, non-residential services. The programs are characterized
by a blend of mental health and special education services provided in a fully integrated
program. Typically, these programs include special education in small classes with an
emphasis on individualized instruction, individual and group counseling, family services
such as family counseling, crisis intervention, interpersonal skill development, and
behavior modification. Children and adolescents receiving day treatment services live
at home or in the community but are identified by their school district as seriously
emotionally disturbed and cannot be maintained in regular classrooms.
Family support programs provide an array of services to support and empower
families with children and adolescents having serious emotional disturbances. The goal
of family support is to reduce family stress and enhance each family's ability to care for
their child. To do this, family support programs operate on the principles of
individualized care, and recognizing every child and family is unique in their strengths
and needs. Connecting family members to other families with children with serious
emotional problems helps families to feel less isolated and identify their own strengths.
Services include but are not limited to education and information, individual advocacy,
family support groups, respite, and family recreation events.
Explanation of Program Types Continued:
Residential Treatment Facilities are designed to provide individualized, active mental
health treatment to children and adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance
within an intensively staffed residential setting. Residential Treatment Facilities are less
restrictive and less intensively staffed than hospital-based programs, but more
intensively staffed and provides a wider range of services than community residences.
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The objective of the program is to help a child improve his or her daily functioning,
develop coping skills, support the family and to ensure appropriate community linkages
and supports to ensure successful transition to the community.
Inpatient services are hospital-based programs that offer a full range of treatment and
support services, client education, and skill acquisition in an intensively supervised,
structured setting. Programs exist in general hospitals, freestanding psychiatric
hospitals and State Children's Psychiatric Centers.
Acronyms:
ACT Assertive Community Treatment
ARC Association for retarded citizens
C&Y Children and Youth
CPEP Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program
HCBS Home and Community Based Services
HHCM Health Home Care Management
MICA Mentally Ill Chemical Abuser
PC Psychiatric Center
SCM Supportive Case/Care Management
X Undisclosed Residential Facility
