Intensive In-Home Services are home-based mental health services that are designed to meet each child and family’s unique needs through crisis management, intensive case management, counseling, family therapy, and skills training. It is a time limited service, which aims to provide youth and their families with assistance diffusing current crises, improving coping skills, and strengthening relationships. The primary goal of the service is to prevent out-of-home placement or provide transition services from out-of-home placement back into the home.
Intensive In-Home services are designed to provide assistance to parents with learning effective discipline techniques and parenting skills. Additionally, these services assist families in developing stronger relationships and communication skills. The purpose of the service is to help families solve problems within the context of their families rather than through placement outside of the home. Services are based on the belief that the family is the most powerful social institution and that families should be supported and maintained whenever possible.
Intensive In-Home services seek to develop, support, and empower the family unit by teaching problem-solving skills, assisting parents in becoming advocates for themselves, and coordination of available community resources. Intensive In-Home Services require complete family involvement and cooperation by all family members as well as the family’s dedication to the service for the most favorable outcome. Families must be willing to commit to the length and intensity of the service. The Intensive In-Home Service staff is available to families for crisis response 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Intensive In-Home services are designed to provide assistance to parents with learning effective discipline techniques and parenting skills. Additionally, these services assist families in developing stronger relationships and communication skills. The purpose of the service is to help families solve problems within the context of their families rather than through placement outside of the home. Services are based on the belief that the family is the most powerful social institution and that families should be supported and maintained whenever possible.
Intensive In-Home services seek to develop, support, and empower the family unit by teaching problem-solving skills, assisting parents in becoming advocates for themselves, and coordination of available community resources. Intensive In-Home Services require complete family involvement and cooperation by all family members as well as the family’s dedication to the service for the most favorable outcome. Families must be willing to commit to the length and intensity of the service. The Intensive In-Home Service staff is available to families for crisis response 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
*Ages 5-18
Active Treatment Focuses On:
- An in-home assessment is initiated within 48 hours of referral.
- Intensive services include 3 to 12 hours of contact per week, per family
- Services average 6 to 12 weeks of treatment;
- Extension may be authorized up to 12 additional weeks (max. 6 months total).
Active Treatment Focuses On:
- Reducing psychiatric symptoms
- Educational intervention aimed at understanding the course of psychiatric illness and prevention and management of the acute phases of the condition.
- Identifying families' behavioral assets and strengths.
- Family-centered services according to families' individualized needs:
- Family therapy
- Individual therapy
- Therapeutic Behavioral Services
- Psychological assessments and evaluations
- Medication management and psychiatric evaluations
- 24 hour Emergency Response
- Communication skills
- Substance abuse counseling
- Anger Management
- Parental education
- Crisis Treatment
- Life skills
- Coordinate with other community based resources
- Educational assessment and support
- Home finance management
- Appropriate clinical documentation in the care record:
- Screening for child at risk for out-of-home placement
- Maintain progress notes
- Family assessments
- Maintain individualized treatment plan
- Discharge planning
