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Individualized care designed to meet the unique mental health needs or behavioral challenges of a child and their family through services focused on empowering the family’s strengths. Using the National Wraparound Initiative Model, the child and family team collaborate to identify strengths and underlying needs to achieve the family’s vision.
Serving youth ages 3– 18
Expanded Medicaid services including community living supports, counseling, family support services, case management, and professional and support services for children with severe emotional and/or behavioral needs to help prevent out-of-home placements and reduce psychiatric hospital re-admissions.
Youth Empowerment Services Goals
YES Eligibility
Demographic
Clinical Criteria
Serious functional impairment or severe psychiatric symptoms as indicated by:
Serving youth ages 6 – 17
LOC-4 provides comprehensive, strength-based care to underserved youth, who are at a high risk of removal from their home and/or community. Typically, the children we serve meet one or more of the following: have experienced multiple psychiatric hospitalizations, attempted various outpatient services, may be involved with the juvenile justice system, be at risk for school expulsion or suspension, or have presented serious injury to themselves, others, or animals.
LOC-4 Goals:
Consumers must request an Enrollment and Screening Assessment for Children’s Services to determine eligibility for Level of Care-4.
Serving adolescents ages 16 – 20 Mental health treatment for residents of Bexar County with a DSM-V diagnosis who want to take a more active role in their mental health treatment. Services include assessment, skills training, counseling, intensive case management, medication training and support, psychiatric evaluation and medication monitoring, caregiver training, family partner support, and wraparound facilitation.
The CHCS POWER Program serves young adults who have begun experiencing confusion, unusual thoughts, acting in ways that seem difficult for others to understand, hearing or seeing things others don’t, withdrawing from family or friends, or becoming suspicious of other people.
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Being mentally healthy in childhood means reaching developmental and emotional milestones, learning healthy social skills, and how to cope when problems arise. When there is a concern that a child might not be meeting these milestones, The Center offers an array of services that can help.
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Our goal is to strengthen and support families by providing services for an array of issues, including:
Children’s mental health treatment is for Bexar County youth ages 3 – 17 with a DSM-V Diagnosis, and includes the following services:
Find out more about our programs for children here
To enroll a child in services, start by calling (210) 261-CHCS (2427) to begin the registration process. The enrollment screening process is done Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Children’s Behavioral Health Clinic at Bandera: 6812 Bandera Road, Suite 102, San Antonio, Texas 78238.
In the event of a mental health crisis including suicidal or homicidal thoughts, please call the 24-Hour Crisis & Substance Use Helpline at 800-316-9241 or 210-223-SAFE (7233). Please call 911 if harm to self or harm to others is imminent.
The Center helps children and adolescents find hope, determine their path to wellness, and discover their way to an independent, productive life.
For more information, or to enroll in services, please call:
Children:Â (210) 261-CHCS (2427)
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Mental health and wellness is essential for a child to live an independent, productive life full of positive experiences. Because a child’s development begins with the love and encouragement they receive from parents and caregivers, it’s important to:Â