Children's Services — Lycoming-Clinton Behavioral HealthChoices

We offer Behavioral Health Services for Children and Youth in Lycoming and Clinton County who are Behavioral HealthChoices members (or eligible for Behavioral HealthChoices benefits).

Behavioral Health Services for Children and Youths available to Behavioral HealthChoices members include:

Psychiatric Outpatient.

These are clinic based services provided by a therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist. Services can be delivered individually, or in a group.

Targeted Case Management (Intensive Case Management and Resource Coordination). This service provides a mental health case manager that completes an assessment and develops a plan to help the child and family access services, obtain benefits and develop natural supports.

Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) There are several kinds of IBHS including,

IBHS – ABA: an evaluation conducted with the child, youth, or young adult that is used to develop a plan for interventions to achieve a targeted behavior.

IBHS-Individual: one on one intensive therapeutic interventions and supports that are used to reduce and manage problem behaviors, increase coping strategies, and support skill development for a child, youth, or young adult in the home, school, or other community setting.

IBHS-Group: therapeutic interventions provided primarily in a group format through clinical interventions, including psychotherapy and ABA services, structured activities, and community integration activities that address a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s identified treatment needs.

Family-Based Mental Health Services. These are team delivered services who focus on the needs of the child and family. The team focus is on delivering family and individual therapy, as well as assisting the family with basic needs.

Partial Hospitalization. These are intensive clinical services that provide group, individual and family counselling, and psychiatric services. Individuals would receive several hours of clinical work in any given day. The length of treatment could be several days, to several months.

Residential Treatment Facility. This is a service for people under 21 years old. In this service the member lives at the facility while the treatment is being received. This service provides intensive individual, family and group therapy with the goal for the child to move back with the family or to step down to other community based services.

Crisis Intervention Services. These services members can use any time of the day or night to help them in a crisis. These services keep the member safe and treat the problem until the problem has passed.

Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital. This is overnight care in a hospital. This service is used if your problem cannot be treated outside the hospital to provide stabilization.

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