Services
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Intensive In home Services
NDBF provides intensive in-home services and crisis intervention to help improve home safety for families at risk of abuse or neglect and in need of out-of-home placement. The intensive in-home services program combines skill-based intervention, which is designed to support and empower the family as well as utilize the strengths of families.
Intensive In-Home Admission Criteria
Must be a child or adolescent between the ages of 5-18 at the time of referral who is:
Is at risk for out-of-home placement due to abuse, neglect, emotional and/or behavioral difficulties
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Returning home from an out-of-home placement such as residential, group home, correctional placement, or foster care
​​Additional Qualifications
Child, adolescent and family are willing to participate in services
Funding for NDBF services are secured through Medicaid, private insurance, Department of Juvenile Justice, grant funds, scholarships, private donors, self-pay, and/or Family Assessment and Planning Team (FAPT) funding approval process
Mental Health Skill Building
Our Mental Health Skill Building services provide rehabilitative and support services for individuals with diagnoses consistent with a serious and persistent mental illness.
MHSB provides direct rehabilitation and support to individuals in the community. We help them maintain stable community living and prevent admission to higher levels of care.
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Specific Mental Health Services Offered
Provision of active rehabilitation and support interventions with a focus on:
activities of daily living
education
budgeting
medication compliance
self-administration (as appropriate and part of the overall treatment/recovery plan)
relapse prevention
social skills
other independent living skills that enable them to live in their community
Provide service coordination and case management activities, including assistance in accessing:
medical
psychiatric
psychopharmacological
psychological
social
education
housing
transportation
other appropriate treatment/support services
Provide therapeutic support and crisis intervention to the individual while developing a crisis relapse prevention plan.
Crisis Stabilization Services
Community stabilization services provide short term intensive mental health care to individuals who are experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis. The goal is to address and stabilize mental health needs as early as possible.
If you are experiencing a behavioral health crisis and need short-term assessment, crisis intervention, and care coordination (and if you meet the criteria listed below), Community Stabilization services are for you. In this program you may receive:
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Assessment of mental, physical, and behavioral needs,
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Brief therapeutic and skill-building interventions,
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Help identifying and activating your existing support systems, and
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Coordination of follow-up services.
The point of Community Stabilization services is to help you figure out what you need to become stable, what resources (in the community AND in your natural, existing support system) are available to help you get there, and then to make a warm transfer—getting you access to those resources as smoothly as possible.
Community Stabilization Service Goals
The goal of Community Stabilization services is to stabilize you within your community, and support you (and your existing support system) during the following situations:
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Between a Mobile Crisis Response and your entry into the appropriate follow-up service (if that appropriate level of care is identified but not immediately available),
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As a transition or “step-down” from a higher level of care, if the next level of care is identified but not immediately available, or
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As an alternative to a higher level of care.
To qualify for this service, you must meet the following criteria:
You have a primary mental health and/or substance use disorder diagnosis
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You are currently at risk of getting stuck in a loop of crisis services OR of a dangerous decline in functioning, to the point that additional help is needed to prevent hospitalization, and
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Prior to admission, you must meet one of the following criteria: EITHER You are residing in a Therapeutic Group Home or Substance Use Disorder Inpatient Treatment Facility, OR you need Community Stabilization as a transition to other long term support services.
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To qualify for Community Stabilization, you must be stepping down or transitioning from one of the following services:
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23-Hour Crisis Stabilization
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Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Services
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ASAM levels 3.1 – 4.0
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Hospital Emergency Department
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Short-term detention or incarceration
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Mobile Crisis Response
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Partial Hospitalization Program (Mental Health or ARTS)
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Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility
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Residential Crisis Stabilization Unit
Exclusionary Criteria
If you meet any of the following criteria, you are not eligible to receive Community Stabilization services.
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You are currently receiving behavioral health services (mental health services / substance use disorder services) at a higher level of care than standard outpatient services (unless your MCO or FFS contractor approves an exception for you.)
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You are receiving inpatient or certain residential treatment services, including psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF) or ASAM levels 3.3—4.0 (unless your MCO or FFS contractor approves an exception for you.)
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Your psychiatric condition is severe enough that it cannot be safely treated at this level of care.
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Your medical condition is severe enough that it need to be treated in an acute medical setting.
Psycho Social Program
Psycho Social is a comprehensive and therapeutic program of treatment for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. We provide an intensive and holistic approach to treatment with emphasis on wellness, empowerment, recovery, personal growth and self-confidence. We serve adults between the ages of 18 – 70 years of age.
This program is for adults with mental health and substance use problems who require a supportive environment in which they can gain important skills to enhance interpersonal relationships, socialization, employment and general quality of life. This program provides community bas psychiatric services to adults with severe mental illness through offering education regarding psychiatric symptoms and management, enhancement of social supports, assistance with housing needs, financial instability, pre-vocational skills and employment opportunities.
