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THERAPEUTIC SERVICES
Individual and Family Therapy is provided either as a stand-alone or as part of a more comprehensive Intensive In-home service designed to stabilize crises that put children at risk of being removed from their homes.
Individual Therapy is aimed at improving the overall functioning of the client while decreasing the symptoms that prompted a referral to treatment. Carolina Outreach takes a family-centered approach to client interventions, so we make every effort to engage families in therapy, particularly with child clients.
Family Therapy is intended to improve family functioning and enhance the quality of family interactions. Family therapy helps family members learn more effective ways of resolving family conflicts and of coping with mental illness. Treatment is intended to help families develop the skills to address future problems effectively on their own.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES
Community support services are psycho-educational and supportive in nature, intended to meet the mental health and/or substance abuse needs of children and adolescents who have significant functional impairment that seriously interferes with or impedes their roles or functioning in family, school, or community. The service is designed to:
- Increase skills to address the complex mental health and/or substance abuse needs of children and adolescents who have significant functional deficits in order to promote symptom reduction and improve age-appropriate functioning in their daily environments
- Assist the child/youth and family in gaining access to and coordinating necessary services to promote clinical stability and support the emotional and functional growth and development of the child.
The rehabilitative activities of community support services consist of a variety of interventions that must directly relate to the recipient's diagnostic and clinical needs as reflected in a comprehensive clinical assessment and outlined in the person-centered plan (PCP). Some of the clinically indicated interventions include one-on-one interventions with the recipient, therapeutic mentoring, symptom monitoring, and selfmanagement of symptoms.
INTENSIVE IN-HOME SERVICES
Intensive in-home services are a time-limited, focused family preservation intervention for identified youth through the age of 20, intended to stabilize the living arrangement, promote reunification, or prevent the use of out-of-home therapeutic resources (i.e., psychiatric hospital, therapeutic foster care, residential treatment facility). These services are delivered primarily to children in their family's home, with the following goals aimed at restoring the family’s inherent social strengths:
- Defuse the current crisis, evaluate its nature, and intervene to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence;
- Ensure linkage to needed community services and resources;
- Provide self-help and living skills training for youth;
- Provide parenting skills training to help the family build skills for coping with the youth's disorder;
- Monitor and manage the presenting psychiatric and/or addiction symptoms; and
- Work with caregivers in the implementation of home-based behavioral supports.
DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENTS
A diagnostic assessment is an intensive clinical and functional face-to-face evaluation of a client's mental health, developmental disability, or substance abuse condition that results in the issuance of a diagnostic/assessment report with a recommendation regarding whether the client meets target population criteria, and includes an order for enhanced benefit services that provides the basis for the development of an initial person-centered plan (PCP).
Our licensed psychologist will provide the assessment needed to initially order the services included in the PCP.
ACTT SERVICES
ACTT services assist the individual to improve all areas of community functioning, including fewer hospitalizations and fewer legal problems. The team consists of a nurse, an employment specialist, mental health professionals, substance abuse professionals, and a peer who has recovered after services.
The service is designed to help people cope with mental illness and substance use so that they can live independently and reach their full potential. The ACTT program provides individuals with a 24-hour crisis line to decrease crises that lead to hospitalizations.
To make a referral and / or get more information about our services,
please e-mail us at:
referrals@carolinaoutreach.com
Carolina Outreach, LLC
2670 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. Durham, NC 27707
Phone (919) 251-9001 Fax (919) 251-9008