A team based treatment approach designed to provide individuals ages 16-25 with comprehensive, flexible, community based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation and support. Individuals and families receive early intervention services from a team of specialists sensitive to the unique needs of transitional age youth. Click here for more information regarding ACT-TAY.
Services are designed to coordinate and provide services and resources to children and their families as necessary to promote resilience. The focus is on teaching/modeling developmentally appropriate skills, necessary for positive self-esteem, a sense of identity, positive relationships with family and peers, social competences and success in school. Click here for more information regarding Community Support.
This service offers an alternative form of care to children who have serious emotional disturbance and who require a level of care greater than can be provided by the school or family, but not as intensive as inpatient service. Day treatment may include vocational education, rehabilitation services, individual and group therapies, and education services.
These services are provided for the child and/or family. Activities provided in the delivery of services may include home living and community skills, communication and socialization, leisure activities for the child, arranging for appropriate services and resources available in the community.
Services are provided for a family member of a child who had or currently has a behavioral or emotional disturbance disorder and may involve a variety of related activities to the development or enhance-ment of the service delivery system. Activities may include, but are not limited to, problem solving skills, emotional support, disseminating information, linking to services and parent-to-parent guidance.
This is a community-based level of support designed to help a child who is experiencing a severe and significant psychiatric condition, alleviating or eliminating the need to admit them into a psychiatric inpatient setting.
Peer support services are delivered by individuals who have been successful in recovery from mental and/or substance use disorders who help others experiencing similar situations. Through shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment, peer support services help people become and stay engaged in the recovery process and reduce the likelihood of relapse. Peer support services can effectively extend the reach of treatment beyond the clinical setting into the everyday environment of those seeking a successful, sustained recovery process. Click here for more information regarding peer support services.
Trauma Informed Care involves using trauma knowledge to guide how treatment and services are delivered and how a trauma lens can be applied to promote organizational change. The Department of Mental Health (DMH) offers support, training and consultation on trauma-related topics. Click here for more information regarding trauma informed services.
Early childhood is a critical period of brain development that provides the foundation for future mental health and wellness. The Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH) wants to ensure that Missouri’s children grow up healthy and happy – both mentally and physically. Click here for more information regarding early childhood mental health.
A spectrum of effective, community-based services and supports for children and youth with or at risk for mental health or other challenges and their families, that is organized into a coordinated network, builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth, and addresses their cultural and linguistic needs, in order to help them to function better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life. Click here for the Legal & Advocacy: System of Care for Children, Youth, & Families PDF.