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Summary:
Mental Health home based service programs are designed to provide intensive services to children with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) and families with multiple service needs who require access to a continuum of mental health and other services. The primary goals of these programs are to promote normal development, promote healthy family functioning, support and preserve families, reunite families who have been separated, and reduce the usage of, or shorten the length of stay in, psychiatric hospitals and other substitute care settings. The family unit is the focus of treatment. The service style must support and empower families, parent and professional teamwork and community collaboration with other service providers.
The Home Based Services Clinician will be responsible to perform psychosocial assessments and develop Family/Person Centered Plans. Services relating to plan goals will be provided primarily in the family home or a setting of the family’s choosing.
Mental Health home based services programs combine individual therapy, family therapy, crisis intervention, case management and family collateral contacts. Services provided in a home based program vary from assisting consumers in meeting basic needs such as food, housing and medical care to more therapeutic interventions such as individual or family therapy. Services begin with an assessment of the family’s strengths.
Referrals are received either from the Authority's Access Department or other Agency programs, via Access. Typically, the length of treatment will be less than a year. Two or three contacts per week per family is the service level more likely to occur because of family need.
The Home Based Services Clinician may be required to provide crisis support services, possibly to include pre-screening for inpatient or partial hospitalization, if needed for assigned consumers and families.
Education, Training and Licensing Credentials:
Masters degree in social work, psychology or related field with corresponding Michigan licensure. Must be trained and have one year of experience in the examination, evaluation and treatment of minors and their families. Prefer one year of experience with emotionally disturbed youth in home based service delivery, crisis intervention and substance abuse treatment. Must be able to work well with staff from other agencies.
Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide the appropriate care for the specific clinical needs and ages of the individuals served. Demonstrated knowledge of community and family systems, symptoms, and behaviors of individuals served, as well as understand the principles of growth and development over the life span; have the ability to assess data reflecting each individual’s status; interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each individual’s requirements in relation to his or her age-specific/population specific needs; and to provide the care needed by the appropriate age group - (child, adolescent and adult). This is typically done in concert with staff and individuals from other community agen
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