Whether it’s in a client’s home or in a school-based setting, our NSCS’s Child, Youth, and Family division is a collection of trained, compassionate, and committed clinical professionals proficient in delivering support, education, and therapy to at-risk youth or families.
Our goal is to promote health and wellness through prevention, early intervention, treatment, education and advocacy so that all residents of the communities we serve may live fulfilling lives. The Child, Youth, and Family Division offers an array of community-based services framed at encouraging stability for youth and their families within their home and community.
Services include:
Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI):
A category of community-based voluntary services for MassHealth enrolled children under of the age of 21 who are struggling with a serious emotional disturbance (SED). CBHI encompasses the following services:
- Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) – ICC are care coordination services that utilize the Wraparound Care model to create avenues for youth and their family to work together with professionals, talk about their strengths and needs, and actively guide their own care. The Care Coordinator helps families bring together a team of people to create an Intensive Care Plan that will address the family’s needs.
- In-Home therapy (IHT) – IHT provides family therapy to support youth and their family in stabilizing the youth’s mental health condition within their home. A primary goal of this service is to support families in adopting strategies and interventions that enable them to work together positively to manage or avert crisis so the family can remain together.
- Family Partner Services (FP) – Family Partner services is a HUB dependent service that exclusively supports parents and caregivers to help their children reach their treatment goals when working in conjunction with hub services such as In Home Therapy, Individual Therapy or Intensive Care Coordination. They are parents or caregivers of children with special needs themselves that help parents learn how to advocate for themselves, create structure in the home, provide ideas on how to manage their child’s challenging behaviors, how to engage and connect with community providers and resources, help develop natural supports, and help with managing stress around parenting.
- Therapeutic Mentoring services (TM) – TM is a hub dependent service that works one on one with a youth in the community, when working in conjunction with hub services such as In Home Therapy, Individual Therapy or Intensive Care Coordination. The primary goal of this service is to provide coaching, education and guidance in age appropriate behaviors, interpersonal communication, problem solving and social skills.
Children’s After School Program (CASP):
The Children’s After School Program (CASP) is a voluntary, community-based therapeutic program for children ages 6 to 13 with emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs. The program is structured and utilizes a positive reinforcement reward system. At CASP, children participate in therapeutic groups which focus on developing social skills and adaptive coping skills. A primary goal of the program is to support and maintain children with their families in their home communities. To do this, each child is assisted with case management services and coordination of care between the program, family, and other providers. While at CASP, each child works directly with a Clinical Therapist and a Youth Specialist. CASP is funded by the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and as such enrolled youth must meet the criteria for DMH.
Youth Elemento:
Youth Elemento is a low-barrier access center that supports young adults ages 16-21 with culturally appropriate programs to break the stigma surrounding mental health. Located in the heart of Chelsea, this center offers a variety of different programing throughout the year. Youth Elemento has an onsite Recovery Navigator to support youth in strengthening their recovery journey, Peer Mentors designed to encourage youth in following through set goals and a Family Coordinator to focus on supporting the youth’s parents.
MINDeaze Winthrop/Chelsea:
The MINDeaze program is targeted prevention and intervention programming in the Winthrop and Chelsea Public School system. The purpose of the program is to engage “high risk” youth, ages 8-11, who are at risk for early development of conduct problems, emotional dysregulation, or substance use, and to connect them to community behavioral health services where necessary. This program provides the students access to the services both in the school and in the community. MINDeaze offers the following components year-round:
- Needs Assessments
- Case Management
- Case Consultation
- Individual Mentoring/Counseling
- Psychoeducation Groups
- After School Activities
- Homework Assistance
Revere High School Response Team:
Revere HS Response team is an embedded school team that offers evidence-based, theory-informed, and data driven co-occurring response to the students within Revere High School. The team is comprised of a master-level clinician that offers the evidence-base substance abuse treatment model ACRA (Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach) and a bachelor-level mentor delivering Project AMP, a 4-6 session curriculum that integrates established evidence-based practices, such as motivational interviewing, peer support, and positive youth development.
Latino Community Advance Response Team (Latino CART):
Latino CART provides clinical and intensive case management for the uninsured and underinsured Chelsea population. The primary goal of Latino CART is to assess individual needs and teach appropriate coping skills and response strategies that will allow the individual to thrive within their community. Strategies include, but are not limited to, addressing past/present trauma; learning how to effectively use coping skills to reduce or eliminate emotional or behavioral difficulties; as well as understanding the social and cultural supports and health-related resources available in the community and how to connect with those resources.
Community Support Program (CSP):
CSP provides intensive case management services to clients with psychiatric or substance abuse disorders who are considered to be at risk in the community. The services are geared toward clients who have a pattern of inpatient admissions or high utilization of ER. The services are designed to be highly flexible in supporting individuals who have difficulty accessing and sustaining involvement in needed services. These supportive services are directed towards adults and vary according to duration and intensity depending on the changing needs of each individual. Services include:
- Coordination of outpatient / medical care
- Access to benefits/ entitlement programs
- Linkage with community resources
- Transportation assistance
- Housing Resources
For more information please contact NSCS’
Admissions & Engagement Department at 866-781-NSCS (6727)
