Community-Based
Supported by a licensed agency or through the Department of Children and Families (DCF), these homes provide 24-hour care and supervision for youth by a trained family.
What is a Foster Home?
What is a shelter?
Once per week therapy in a clinician's office or on telehealth.
What is outpatient therapy?
This is the first stop for assessment when a child or adult is a threat to themself or others.
What is the Emergency Room?
An individual who prescribes medication for a child or adult.
What is a Psychiatrist?
This individual has lived experience and is paired with children or individuals with substance use challenges in order to support positive decision-making.
What is peer mentoring?
A licensed, non-treatment facility providing 24-hour supervision for youth in an age appropriate, individualized and structured group setting. Youth in this level of care require consistent behavior management, supervision and support.
What is a group home?
A less intensive program in which the client goes a few times a week for groups and skill-building, but can continue their daily routines at home.
What intensive outpatient program (IOP)?
This is "the process of prioritizing patients for emergency care based on the urgency of their condition. Nurses are often the first point of contact for patients in the ER." A crisis clinician can meet clients in the ER for assessment.
What is Triage?
Someone appointed by the court or who has legal authority to make educational, medical, or other decisions for a child.
What is a legal guardian?
This member of the CBHI team meets weekly with a youth and works on goals created by the in-home therapist or intensive care coordinator.
What is a Therapeutic Mentor?
A temporary placement for a juvenile who has committed a crime, and is a documented risk to flee the jurisdiction of the court or is a danger to the community.
What is juvenile detention?
A highly structured day program (typically ~9am-3pm) with clinicians and staff aimed to improve coping skills and support transition back into school/home life/work. Client returns home every day.
Parents can call this service for assessment by a clinician of their child in home or at school. They can also take their child to their local center for assessment.
What is Mobile Crisis Intervention?
A specialized day school paid for by a child's home school district if a child cannot access learning (for mental health or other reasons) in typical public school.
What is a therapeutic day school? Also known as Out-of-District Placement?
A placement where a youth receives care from at least one primary care taker who the youth has previously lived with or a trusted adult that has a preexisting, significant relationship with the youth.
What is relative/kinship foster care?
A living arrangement for youth 17-18 years old that maximizes a youth’s independence and engagement within the community. A staff provides assistance with direct skill training on life skills, mentoring, coaching, support and supervision to youth who are living independently, or with a roommate who is also in the program.
What is Independent Living?
Highly structured, short-term treatment and stabilization program that can act as an alternative to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization or a bridge between an inpatient hospitalization and home.
What is Community-Based Acute Treatment (CBAT)?
The crisis clinician or family partner make THESE to find the appropriate ongoing services on behalf of the family, based on the child's current need.
What are referrals?
This MA state department "assures and provides access to services and supports to meet the mental health needs of individuals of all ages; enabling them to live, work and participate in their communities."
What is the Department of Mental Health?
This service is for children and youth with social, emotional or behavioral challenges under the age of 21. It can be delivered anywhere the youth is, including home, school, child care setting, and other places in the community.
What is CBHI in-home therapy?
Youth placed in this kind of home will demonstrate persistent behavioral problems (limited coping skills, verbally and/or physically aggressive behavior) that can only be managed with a moderate level of structure; the youth will have functional impairments in daily living skills that cannot be met in a non therapeutic environment.
What is a Therapeutic Group Home (ThGH)?
This is the most intensive level of psychiatric care and is designed to provide medically necessary, intensive assessment, psychiatric treatment and support to stabilize youth. Typically, the youth poses a significant danger to self or others, or displays severe psychosocial dysfunction.
What is Acute Inpatient Hospitalization?
A therapeutic school program that gets THIS amount of time to assess, evaluate, and complete a report for the home school district to provide recommendations?
What is 45 days? Also known as a 45-day placement?