Youth

Children's Behavioral Health

The Children’s Behavioral Health program provides Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services and a Family Support Team.

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.

Child Guidance  

• Child Guidance Clinics Ansonia, Guilford, Hartford, Milford, New Britain, Torrington Each mental health clinic is licensed as a child guidance clinic promoting sound and culturally competent mental health and skills development that maximize a child’s success at home, at school, and in the community.Children are provided with a variety of outpatient mental health interventions to enable them to experience healthy development and achieve their maximum level of functioning.
  
• Hispanic Child Guidance Clinic at the Institute for the Hispanic Family  Hartford This unique child guidance clinic provides specific culturally competent mental health services to Latino youth in the Hartford Community.

Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) Hartford
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 Hartford
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.