Early Childhood Mental Health Services
Early Childhood Mental Health Services provides services to children between birth and eight years of age with emotional disturbance or risk factors for emotional and behavioral disturbances and associated developmental delays. The goal of services is to strengthen parent-child relationships, support the family’s capacity to care for their children and to enhance the child’s social and emotional functioning.
- Comprehensive mental health assessments
- Individual, family, and group therapies
- Psychiatric services - medication evaluation and management
- Day treatment
- In-home and in-office therapy options
- Childcare consultation, outreach, and training
- Targeted case management
- Psychological assessment and evaluation
- 24-hour on-call emergency professional coverage
- Clinical care coordination
Children’s Clinical Services
The Children’s Clinical Services provides community-based outpatient, individual and family oriented mental health services for children from 6 through 17 years of age. These services include:
- Individual, family, and group therapies
- Psychological assessment and evaluation
- Psychiatric services - medication evaluation and management
- Clinical care coordination
- 24-hour on-call emergency professional coverage
Mobile Crisis Response Team
The Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) provides
immediate, mobile crisis response for assessment, intervention and support to
all Nevada youth who are experiencing a mental health or behavioral health
crisis. The goal of MCRT is to provide
immediate response in order to stabilize and support youth to safely remain in
their homes, communities and schools, utilizing a team comprised of a master’s
level clinician and a bachelor’s level psychiatric caseworker to assess,
provide short term mental health interventions, safety plan, and link to needed
immediate and ongoing services. MCRT Is available to all youth under the age of
18 (18 if still in high school).
- Responses and stabilization services provided
at the family location of choice
- MCRT works collaboratively with the youth,
family and support systems to create and implement safety plans for youth
- MCRT can stay connected with a youth and
family for up to 45 days to provide intensive, short term clinical
interventions and build skills to further stabilize youth and family
- MCRT provides linkage to immediate and
long-term services in the community
- “Crisis” is defined by the caller and can
include, but is not limited to behavioral or mental health concerns that pose a
threat to youth stability in their home, school of community such as:
Suicidal thoughts or actions
Homicidal thoughts or
actions
Depression
Anxiety
Anger
Self-Injury
Parent-Child Conflict
Peer conflict/bullying
School problems
Behavioral or mental
health concerns that pose a threat to youth stability in their home, school, or community.
Additional information on the Mobile Crisis
Response Team can be found at: www.knowcrisis.com
The Mobile Crisis response team can be reached
24 hours a day by calling 702-486-7865 or 775-688-1670.
Wraparound in Nevada for Children and Families (WIN)
Wraparound In Nevada (WIN) is a statewide, community-based program that offers a tiered care coordination approach to serving children and youth with Severe Emotional Disturbances (SED) and complex behavioral and mental health needs. Using evidence-based and evidence-informed model approaches, the overall goal of WIN is to provide individualized and strength-based support for children, youth, and families in reaching their goals or “family visions” with a decrease in need for higher levels of care, including out of home placements.
• High-Fidelity Wraparound
- Team-Based planning process where children, youth, and their families are involved at every step.
- Children/Youth have complex behavioral health needs that have not been met through other system interventions.
- Multi-System Involvement to include the reduction of multiple plans into collaborative comprehensive plans that reflect all areas of need. Children are often involved in multiple services/systems to help meet needs in areas of behavioral health, educational, social services, primary care, juvenile justice, child welfare, etc. WIN looks to incorporate plans from other system partners so that 1 family = 1 plan, helping to move towards common goals and ease the burden of potential, conflicting priorities.
- Safety/Crisis Needs: WIN partners with families to help define their crisis and looks to link them to community resources to avoid further, deeper system involvement.
- Approximately 12-14 months
- Ratio of 10 Families: 1 Facilitator to help maximize the effectiveness of the process.
• FOCUS
- For children, youth, and families just entering the child serving system and hope to avoid further, deeper system involvement.
- FOCUS care coordination links families to services immediately so they can start accessing care.
- Families needing assistance in beginning to access care.
- Behavioral health needs and/or crisis concerns are beginning to develop or become concerning.
- Family and Care Coordinator develop the plan collaboratively with the family driving the planning process.
- Approximately 6-9 months
- Ratio of 15 Families: 1 Care Coordinator
For additional information and referral information please reach out to dcfs-win.referral@dcfs.nv.gov
Latency Age Day Treatment Program
A therapeutic social group setting for youths 7-11 years of age who work to gain age-appropriate developmental skill by interacting with their peers in a structured environment. Youths must be active in individual/family therapy and meet the criteria for Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED) to be eligible for this program.
Early Childhood Day Treatment Program
A therapeutic social group setting for youths 3-6 years of age with social, emotional and/or behavioral concerns. Evidence-based practices are used to support children in working towards building age-appropriate developmental skills in order to support continues success int eh home, school, and community. Active participation in family therapy is required.
In-Home Clinical Team
Serves youths ages births to 18 with a history of multiple and/or reoccurring acute hospitalizations by providing support to youths and family through interventions that help strengthen relationships, communication, stability, and safety. More information can be obtained by emailing DCFS-IntensivelnHome@dcfs.nv.gov or by calling 702-486-7580