Community-Based Rehabilitation Services (CBRS) focus on behavioral, social, communication, rehabilitation, and/or basic living skills training which is designed to help build competency and confidence while increasing functioning and decreasing mental health and/or behavioral symptoms. Skill building/CBRS is specific to goals identified in the individualized treatment plan. Examples of areas that may be addressed include self-care, behavior, social decorum, avoidance of exploitation, anger management, budgeting, development of social support networks, and use of community resources.
Behavioral Health Case Management is a collaborative process that assesses, plans, links, coordinates, and monitors options and services that address your needs. Case management is provided to clients with a behavioral health diagnosis who are unable to navigate or coordinate the service system independently. Case management helps clients learn about, gain, and maintain access to services and providers.
Youth support services are available to adolescents (12 yrs. – 18 yrs.) who have Medicaid Insurance and have a mental health diagnosis. Youth Support services can assist with setting goals, addressing barriers to treatment and recovery, encourage hope, insight, develop new skills, decrease isolation, and increase empowerment to effectively manage your own treatment.
YSS After-school Group
Our YSS Groups provide a safe space for teens to connect, express themselves, and seek guidance. We focus on personal development, including emotional well-being and social skills. We encourage confidence and resilience through group discussions and activities and foster a strong sense of belonging among participants.
Family Support Services provide assistance to caregivers who are caring for a child diagnosed with a mental health disorder, or a co-existing mental health, developmental and/or substance use disorder. Family Support Services assists the family by strengthening their role as parents through the provision of teaching and support services. FSS aids in the prevention of the family and member becoming isolated, disempowered, or disengaged. Examples of these servioces include:
1. Teaching family members how to develop self-advocacy
2. Role modeling behaviors and skills needed for resiliency and coping
3. Helping families utilize their strengths
4. Teach caregivers and members about causes of disorders and about using evidence based interventions in treatment planning.
FSS are provided by a Certified Family Support Partner (CFSP) who is a parent or adult caregiver, and through lived experience and specialized training has acquired an understanding of another parent's situation via the shared emotional and psychological challenges of raising a child with a mental health diagnosis.
The purpose of these services is to help the family feel less isolated, more empowered throughout the recovery process and engage in the community. Services aim to improve the quality of life and opportunities for recovery in the child's home, school and community through engagement with the family as well as the member.
Medicaid Respite is available for any child or youth under the age of 18 who is part of the Medicaid YES Program. Respite is in-person, short-term care in the least restrictive environment that provides relief for the usual caretaker and that is aimed at de-escalation of stressful situations. Individual respite is provided in the members home, a community-based setting and/or at the agency facility. Respite services are provided in a manner that is strengths-based, culturally competent and responsive to each member’s individual psychosocial, developmental, and treatment care needs.
Youth Empowerment Services (YES) is the children’s mental health system of care in Idaho that helps families access services and supports for their children with serious emotional disturbance (SED). This pamphlet provides information about the principles of care that are part of YES, and what families can expect from this system of care.
Serious emotional disturbance (SED) is the term used when a child under the age of 18 has the combination of a mental health diagnosis and a functional impairment, as determined by the CANS tool. A functional impairment impacts a child’s ability to participate socially, academically, and emotionally at home, at school, or in the community.
The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool is used in Idaho to identify a child’s strengths and needs (including any functional impairment). It is used during treatment planning and service delivery.
Are YES services coordinated with my child’s school? Most schools do not directly provide services as part of the YES system of care, but school staff may:
• Participate on a Child and Family Team (CFT)
• Help a family complete the CANS with the family’s mental health provider
• Support the goals identified on the coordinated care plan
• Provide in-school supports.
How schools choose to get involved and the resources available vary between districts, and families are encouraged to discuss involvement with their local school staff.
Approach to Services and Supports The services and supports in the YES system of care prioritize the following values throughout treatment planning, implementation, and evaluation:
• Family-Centered: Emphasizes each family’s strengths and resources.
• Family and Youth Voice and Choice: Prioritizes the preferences of youth and their families in all stages of care.
• Strengths-Based: Identifies and builds on strengths to improve functioning.
• Individualized Care: Customizes care specifically for each youth and family.
• Team-Based: Brings families together with professionals and others to create a coordinated care plan.
• Community-Based Service Array: Provides local services to help families reach the goals identified in their coordinated care plan.
• Collaboration: Partners families, informal supports, providers, and agencies together to meet identified goals.
• Unconditional: Commits to achieving the goals of the coordinated care plan.
• Culturally Competent: Considers the family’s unique cultural needs and preferences.
• Early Identification and Intervention: Assesses mental health and provides access to services and supports.
• Outcome-Based: Contains measurable goals to assess change. Family Involvement Families should expect the following from the YES system of care:
• Engagement: Youth and families are actively involved in the creation and implementation of their coordinated care plan. • Assessment: Information about the youth and family is gathered to create a meaningful coordinated care plan.
• Care Planning and Implementation: The coordinated care plan identifies appropriate services and supports and how families and youth access them.
• Teaming: Youth and families are able to collaborate with providers and community partners to create their coordinated care plan.
• Monitoring and Adapting: The services and supports in the coordinated care plan are evaluated and updated as needed.
• Transition: Type of services, frequency of use, and levels of care change as the youth and family’s needs change.
Wraparound is a team-based, family-driven, and youth-guided planning process that is driven by a set of guiding principles:
A Wraparound Care Coordinator supports your family's vison and desired outcomes utilizing strengths and needs specific to your child and family. The wraparound team can include youth, family, community partners, and other natural supports. The team works collaboratively to support the youth and family mission.
Wraparound can help youth and families by:
Wraparound is part of the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) System of care in Idaho. Wraparound is intended to assist youth and families who may be experiencing a high level of need and/or are likely to be participating with one or more community services (school, legal, medical.)
Each youth and family will participate in a Strengths and Needs Assessment (CANS) with the Care Coordinator. Using this information, the team will identify supports and services that may be beneficial for you and your child.
These services can be in conjunction with counseling or stand-alone services. To start services contact us today!
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