Mental Health Services
Services by Category
The following services are listed according to the categories. Some services and programs are specific to a particular population; any exclusions are indicated by bracketed descriptions inline.
- Clinical Interventions
- Community Supports
- Consultation, Education & Advocacy
- Crisis Services
- Day Service
- Disaster Reponse
- Employment Services
- Housing & Home Supports
- Partial Hospitalization
- Respite
- Service Planning & Coordination
- Transportation
Clinical Interventions
Clinical Interventions are assessment, therapeutic, medication or medical services provided by clinical or medical staff, including a qualified clinician, therapist, psychiatrist or nurse.
- Clinical Assessment services evaluate individuals' and families' strengths, needs, existence and severity of disability(s), and functioning, across environments. Assessment services may include evaluation of the support system's and community's strengths and availability to the individual and family.
- Individual Therapy is a method of treatment that uses the interaction between a therapist and the individual to facilitate emotional or psychological change and to alleviate distress.
- Family Therapy is a method of treatment that uses the interaction between a therapist, the individual, and family members to facilitate emotional or psychological change and to alleviate distress.
- Group Therapy is a method of treatment that uses the interaction between a therapist, the individual, and peers to facilitate emotional or psychological change and to alleviate distress.
- Medication and Medical Support and Consultation Services include evaluating the need for, prescribing and monitoring medication, and providing medical observation, support and consultation for an individual's health care.
- Assessment Bed is needed to provide an intensive, time limited (maximum of 60 days) stable setting to formulate a diagnosis; to evaluate an individual's and family's strengths and needs; and to begin service planning and coordination, therapy, community supports, and medication services as necessary. This is an exception to most assessments that are done in a child's home, school and community. [Not for Adult Mental Health or Developmental Services use.]
Community Supports
- Community Supports are specific, individualized and goal oriented services which assist individuals (and families) in developing skills and social supports necessary to promote positive growth. These supports may include assistance in daily living, supportive counseling, support to participate in community activities, collateral contacts, and building and sustaining healthy personal, family and community relationships. May be provided individually or in a group setting.
- Family Education is education, consultation and training services provided to family members, significant others, home providers and foster families with knowledge, skills and basic understanding necessary to promote positive change. [Not for Adult Mental Health use.]
Consultation, Education & Advocacy
- Consultation, Education & Advocacy services are system-based work done with family and community groups to improve circumstances and environments for targeted populations. These services may include community resource development. They are not provided in relation to a specific individual receiving services funded by Mental Health Services.
Crisis Services
Crisis Services are time-limited, intensive, supports provided for individuals, and families who are currently experiencing, or may be expected to experience, a psychological, behavioral, or emotional crisis.
Services may also be provided to the individual's or family's immediate support system. These services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Emergency/Crisis Assessment, Support and Referral includes initial information gathering, triage, training and early intervention, supportive counseling, consultation, referral and crisis planning. In addition, supports include: outreach and stabilization, clinical diagnosis and evaluation, treatment and direct support, and integration/discharge planning back to the person's home or alternative setting. Assessment may also include screening for inpatient psychiatric admission.
- Emergency/Crisis Beds offer emergency, short-term, 24-hour residential supports in a setting other than the person's home.
Day Service
Day Services are group recovery activities in a milieu that promote wellness, empowerment, a sense of community, personal responsibility, self-esteem and hope. These activities are consumer centered.
This service provides socialization, daily skills development, crisis support and promotes self-advocacy. [Not for Child, Adolescent, & Family Mental Health]
Disaster Response
Disaster Response Teams provide mental health services to the survivors of disasters of all types such as natural, technological, bio-terrorist, and other critical incidents. These teams can respond to local events independently and to regional or statewide events as part of the comprehensive State Emergency Operations Plan.
The Disaster Response Teams are comprised of a core group of agency employees as well as a variety of professionals and volunteers from the community. To learn more, visit the Disaster Response website.
Employment Services
Employment Services assist transition age youth and adults in establishing and achieving career and work goals.
- Employment Assessment involves evaluation of the individual's work skills, identification of the individual's preferences and interests, and the development of personal work goals.
- Employer and Job Development assists an individual to access employment and establish employer development and support. Activities for employer development include identification, creation or enhancement of job opportunities, education, consulting, and assisting co-workers and managers in supporting and interacting with individuals.
- Job Training assists an individual to begin work, learn the job, and gain social inclusion at work.
- Ongoing Support to Maintain Employment involves activities needed to sustain paid work by the individual. These supports and services may be given both on and off the job site, and may involve long-term and/or intermittent follow-up.
These supports and services may be given both on and off the job site, and may involve long-term and/or intermittent follow-up.
Housing & Home Supports
Housing and Home Supports provide services, supports and supervision to individuals in and around their residences up to 24 hours a day.
- Supervised/Assisted Living (by the hour) are regularly scheduled or intermittent supports provided to an individual who lives in his or her home or that of a family member. [Not for Child, Adolescent & Family Mental Health use.]
- Staffed Living are residential living arrangements for one or two people, staffed full-time by providers.
- Group Treatment/Living are group living arrangements for three or more people, staffed full-time by providers.
- Licensed Home Providers/Foster Families are individualized shared-living arrangements for children, offered within a home provider's/foster family's home that is licensed. Home providers/foster families are contracted workers and are not considered staff in their role as contracted provider. [Not for Adult Mental Health use.]
- Unlicensed Home Providers/Foster Families are individualized shared-living arrangements for children and adults, offered within a home provider/foster family's home. Home providers/foster families are contracted workers and are not considered staff in their role as contracted provider.
*Home providers/foster families are contracted workers.
Partial Hospitalization
Partial Hospitalization is an intensive (4-16 hours/day), time-limited (maximum 21 days) service provided as an alternative to inpatient care to prevent or shorten psychiatric hospitalization and promote recovery.
Partial Hospitalization services are provided to individuals who would otherwise meet inpatient criteria, and medical personnel (nurse, physician) are accessible to provide services during hours of operation.
Treatment includes:
- diagnosis and evaluation
- service planning and coordination
- community supports
- individual, group and family therapy
- medication services
- psycho-educational skill development for managing symptoms. [Not for Child, Adolescent, & Family Mental Health]
Respite
Respite assist family members, significant others (e.g., roommates, friends, partners), home providers and foster families to help support specific individuals with disabilities. [Not for Adult Mental Health use.]
- Respite services are provided on a short-term basis because of the absence or need for relief of those persons normally providing the care to individuals who cannot be left unsupervised. Mayb be provided by the hour or by the day/overnight. [Not for Adult Mental Health use.]
Service Planning & Coordination
Service Planning and Coordination assists individuals and their families in planning, developing, choosing, gaining access to, coordinating and monitoring the provision of needed services and supports for a specific individual.
Services and supports that are planned and coordinated may be formal (provided by the human services system) or informal (available through the strengths and resources of the family or community).
Services and supports include discharge planning, advocacy and monitoring the well being of individuals (and their families), and supporting them to make and assess their own decisions.
Transportation
Transportation services are only for the necessary transportation of individuals, covered by Medicaid, to and from an agency facility in order to receive Medicaid reimbursable Clinic, Rehabilitation or Targeted Case Management services.
"Necessary" means that the individual has no reasonable alternative transportation available and, without such transportation, would not be able to receive these Medicaid reimbursable services.