Family Support Services

At Youth Dynamics, Inc. our Family Support Services are designed around the theme of “Keeping Families Together.” Family Support Services (FSS) are offered under the community based psychiatric rehabilitation and support option in the mental health service continuum. This service option is designed to meet therapeutic needs of clients with severe emotional disturbance directly in their homes, schools and other community-based settings.

These services are provided by trained mental health professionals and are directed by an Individual Treatment Plan developed in conjunction with the client’s treatment team. Family Support Services are designed to address immediate treatment needs in settings where the client lives and interacts with family members and peers. These services must also be deemed medically necessary by qualified clinicians.

Family Support Services can include a continuum of interventions ranging from evaluation and assessment of symptomatic, behavioral, social and environmental barriers to successful family living and community integration. Services assist the client with self-management of psychiatric symptoms, communication skills, social skills and other pro-social behaviors that increase the probabilities for personal growth and autonomy. In addition, FSS can assist the family in developing environmental and interpersonal structures that positively support the client so that they can attain and maintain adequate levels of functioning. FSS are useful to prevent out-of-home placements and facilitate the successful integration of a client back into a family environment when returning from a placement.

Services included in FSS are: Therapeutic Respite Care, Family Support Assistant, Outpatient Individual and Group Ttherapy, Family Support Teams, Family Based Services and Intensive Youth Case Management.

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