Intensive In-Community Services
Intensive In-Community Services are flexible, multi-purpose, in-home/community clinical support for parents/caregivers/guardians and children/youth with behavioral and emotional disturbances. The purpose of these interventions is to strengthen the family, to provide family stability and to preserve the family constellation in the community setting. These services are flexible both as to where and when they are provided based on the family’s needs. They may be provided as a component of a longer-term treatment intervention. This family-driven treatment is based on targeted needs as identified in individualized treatment plan. The treatment plan includes specific intervention(s) with target dates for accomplishment of goals that focus on the
- restorative functioning of the child/youth with the intention of:
- Stabilizing the child/youth’s behavior(s) that led to the crisis,
- Preventing/reducing the need for inpatient hospitalization,
- Preventing the movement of the child/youth’s residence,
- Preventing the need for out-of-home living arrangements.
