Home-Based Counseling
Home-based counselors serve as advocates for children and their families. They identify and coordinate needed services and provide services including but not limited to:
Home-Based Services Licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services. Medicaid Provider
Home-based counselors serve as advocates for children and their families. They identify and coordinate needed services and provide services including but not limited to:
- Individual and family therapy
- Crisis intervention and resolution
- 24-hour emergency response
- Life, parenting, and community skills
- Psycho-educational opportunities
- Family assessment
- Advocacy
- Case management
- Anger management
- Substance abuse counseling
- Medical/health counseling
- Stress management
- Teaching more effective communication
- Enhancing self-esteem
- Teaching self-monitoring behavior
- Collaboration with other service providers
- Transitioning youth and family into longer term and continuing services
- Providing transportation
- Supervised visits
- Supervised transfers
- Personal care training
- Discharge planning
Home-Based Services Licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services. Medicaid Provider
Medicaid Funded Intensive In-Home Services
This program provides intensive time limited In-Home services for children and adolescents under the age of 21 who are at risk of being moved into an out-of-home placement or who are being transitioned to home from out-of-home placement due to documented clinical needs of the child.
Services Provided
Eligibility Requirements
Child must have Medicaid Insurance.
Children and adolescents between the ages of 4 and 21.
Children and adolescents demonstrating a clinical necessity arising from a condition due to mental, substance abuse, behavioral, or emotional illness that results in significant functional impairments in major life activities and placing them at risk for removal from their home.
This program provides intensive time limited In-Home services for children and adolescents under the age of 21 who are at risk of being moved into an out-of-home placement or who are being transitioned to home from out-of-home placement due to documented clinical needs of the child.
Services Provided
- Individual Counseling
- Family Counseling
- Crisis Intervention and 24 hour emergency response
- Communication Skill Development (problem-solving, interpersonal skill development)
- Anger-management
- Substance abuse counseling
- Parent counseling
- Case-management and coordination of services with other providers
Eligibility Requirements
Child must have Medicaid Insurance.
Children and adolescents between the ages of 4 and 21.
Children and adolescents demonstrating a clinical necessity arising from a condition due to mental, substance abuse, behavioral, or emotional illness that results in significant functional impairments in major life activities and placing them at risk for removal from their home.
Goals of Home-Based
Counseling
To provide a treatment opportunity for those youth and their families who would benefit most from delivery of these services in their home rather than in a traditional outpatient facility.
To provide a range of services to meet the needs of the youth and their family, including the capacity to respond 24 hours per day.
To preserve family unity while ensuring the safety of each family member.
To identify and facilitate change of behaviors that put family members at risk.
To assess the needs of the individual family members and together develop and implement a treatment plan to meet those needs.
To link the child and family with appropriate agencies and individuals to create a community support system.
Counseling
To provide a treatment opportunity for those youth and their families who would benefit most from delivery of these services in their home rather than in a traditional outpatient facility.
To provide a range of services to meet the needs of the youth and their family, including the capacity to respond 24 hours per day.
To preserve family unity while ensuring the safety of each family member.
To identify and facilitate change of behaviors that put family members at risk.
To assess the needs of the individual family members and together develop and implement a treatment plan to meet those needs.
To link the child and family with appropriate agencies and individuals to create a community support system.