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Pathways' comprehensive children's psychiatric services range
from brief individual, group and family counseling that deal
with issues such as depression and anxiety to long-term care
and support for children with serious emotional disturbances.
Long-term support and assistance includes medication management,
case management, day treatment and intensive in-home services
for youth
Children's Outpatient Counseling
Pathways outpatient services offers individual counseling for children and
adults beginning at age five, families and group counseling for adults and
children. These services are designed to reduce symptoms and promote good
mental health in a time-effective, compassionate manner through use of:
- psychological assessments and evaluations
- individual, family and group counseling
- crisis intervention - including 24-hour crisis services
- medication management and psychiatric evaluations
Children's Intensive Targeted Case Management
This is an available and covered service through the
Missouri Medicaid program, for a defined population of children
and youth with severe emotional disturbances. Intensive targeted
case management services are intended to assist eligible children
and youth, ages 0-21 years, and their families in gaining access
to needed psychiatric and psychological treatment, as well
as medical, social, educational, vocational services and other
supports essential to maximizing the child or youth's adjustment
and functioning within a family setting and the community.
Intensive case managers provide a mechanism to facilitate a
child's potential and quality of life and assure comprehensive
and quality care. Services of the program include:
- assessment and planning
- linking the child to needed supports and services
- advocacy on behalf of the child and family
- monitoring the child's response to the services provided
Intensive In-home Services (IIS)
IIS provides four to six weeks of intensive counseling and support services
to families who have a child that is at immediate risk of being removed from
their home and placed in foster care or other alternative care. Referrals
from this program are generated by a hotline call due to abuse or neglect.
As an intensive intervention short-term program, the main
goal of IIS is to protect children and keep families together.
Licensed therapists work with the family to remove the risk
of harm, rather than remove the child. |
