Child and Youth Services

Assessment and Referral

Assessment and referral programs provide a variety of activities, including prescreening, screening, assessment, determination of need, and referral to appropriate level of care and services. An adequate assessment must be conducted to provide more informed referrals. The assessment team is housed as an independent program within the organization's system of care. Macchian Solutions offers assessment and referral as a routine function of entrance into other core programs, such as education, case management, counseling, or behavioral consultation, and diversion programs.

 

Behavioral Consultation

In the behavioral consultation program, the emphasis is placed on the reduction or elimination of problematic behaviors. The focus of the program is to replace seemingly inappropriate behaviors with positive adaptive behaviors or increase the ability of the person served to express more effective and appropriate behaviors. Behavioral strategies are used to teach the person other means to deal with targeted behaviors and the environment to ensure that inappropriate behaviors are discouraged, and positive behaviors are learned and maintained. This includes services to young children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), autism spectrum disorders (ASD), or behaviors symptomatic of ASD.




Counseling

The counseling and outpatient programs provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services that include but are not limited to, individual, group, and family counseling and education on wellness, recovery, and resiliency. These programs offer comprehensive, coordinated, and defined services that may vary in level of intensity. Additionally, the counseling and outpatient programs address a variety of needs, including, but not limited to, situational stressors, family relations, interpersonal relationships, behavior management, mental health issues, life span issues,

 psychiatric illnesses, substance use disorders, and other addictive behaviors, and the needs of victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, or other traumas.

 

Case Management/Services Coordination

The case management services coordination provides goal-oriented and individualized services and support through assessment, planning, linkage, advocacy, coordination, and monitoring activities. Successful case management/services coordination assists persons served to achieve their goals through communicating and collaborating with other service providers effectively and efficiently. A key focus is assisting individuals to move toward greater independence and community integration. The program will also provide occasional supportive counseling and crisis intervention services.

 

Case management services coordination may be provided by the school as part of its service planning and delivery, by a department or division within the organization that works with individuals who are internal and external to the organization, or by The

Ibex School with the sole purpose of providing case management/services coordination. Macchian Solutions offers case management services coordination as a routine function of other services or programs is not required to apply these standards.



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Community Transition (Coming Soon!)

The community transition program provides services that focus on the identified preferences, goals, and needs of youth transitioning from service systems designed for children and adolescents to adulthood. The program utilizes a collaborative approach to individualized planning and decision-making that includes the persons served and, in accordance with the preferences of the people served, members of their families and support systems. Recognizing that many of the persons served have experienced traumatic events that have impacted their relationships, the program emphasizes the importance of developing and maintaining healthy relationships of all types for a successful transition to adulthood. The development of services and supports for each person is guided by an inventory of skills and interests and identification of the goals and priorities of life skills the person needs for a successful transition to adulthood. Persons served are involved in the assessment of risks and consequences related to various behaviors in which they may choose to engage.

 

Additionally, the community transition program provides the people served with opportunities to explore and understand how their lives will change as recognized adults in areas including, but not limited to, access to service systems and funding; living options; and educational, social, and

vocational opportunities.

 

Finally, the program will be comprehensive in scope and provide a wide range of services or specialize in multiple areas of services such as independent living skill development and vocational skills training.

 

Community Youth Development Coming Soon!

The community youth development programs are designed to help people optimize their personal, social, and vocational competency to live successfully in the community. Activities are determined by the needs of the people served. The persons served are active partners in all aspects of these programs. The setting may be informal to reduce barriers between personnel and program participants and may include a drop-in center, an activity center, a day program, or a leisure or recreational setting such as a camp program.

 

The community youth development programs provide opportunities for persons served to participate in the community. The program defines the scope of these services based on the identified the needs and desires of the persons served. A person may participate in a variety of community life experiences, including:

— Leisure or recreational activities.

         THE IBEX ART FOUNDATION

                       Dance

                       Orchestra/Band

                       Acting/Theater/Production

                       Singing/Production                   

                       Computer Animation

                       Cuisine

                       Film

                       Art and Mixed Media Production

— Communication activities.

                       Public Speaking

                       Debate

                       Public Communications

— Spiritual activities.

— Cultural activities.

— Sports.

         Basketball

         Football

         Tennis

         Backgammon

— Vocational pursuits.

— Development of work attitudes.

— Employment activities.

         *includes college preparatory activities hosted by PVAMU

— Volunteerism.

— Educational and training activities.

— Development of living skills.

— Health and wellness promotion.

— Socialization.

— Orientation, mobility, and destination training.

— Access and utilization of public transportation.

— Financial assistance and planning.

 

Diversion and Intervention (Coming Soon!)

The diversion and intervention include programs traditionally thought of as interventions that focus on changing outcomes for persons served and targeting antecedents of the problem. Additionally, the diversion and intervention programs utilize strategies designed to intervene with at-risk or identified individuals to reduce or eliminate identified concerns. Within the child welfare field, examples include alternative response, differential response, or multiple response systems as well as kinship diversion.

 

The diversion program includes juvenile justice/court diversion, substance abuse diversion, truancy diversion, DUI/OWI classes, a report center, school tracking, anger management, and building healthy relationships.  The intervention program targets people who are exhibiting early signs of identified problems and are at risk for continued or increased problems.

 

Promotion and Prevention WRAP Around Services (Coming Soon!)

The promotion and prevention programs are proactive and evidence-based, striving to reduce individual, family, and environmental risk factors, increase resiliency, enhance protective factors, and achieve individual and comprehensive community wellness through a team or collaborative approach. We utilize strategies designed to keep individuals, families, groups, and communities healthy and free from the problems related  to alcohol or other drug use, mental health disorders, physical illness, parent/child conflict,  abuse/neglect, exposure to and experience of violence in the home and community, and to  inform the general public of problems associated with those issues, thereby raising awareness;  and to intervene with at-risk or identified individuals to reduce or eliminate identified concerns.

 

Program services may be provided in the community, school, home, workplace, or other settings as deemed necessary by he treatment team. Macchian Solutions provides one or more of the following types of promotion and prevention programs, categorized according to the population for which they are designed:

 

— Universal (Promotion) programs: target the general population and seek to increase overall well-being and reduce the overall prevalence of unwanted or problem behaviors. These programs include comprehensive, well-coordinated components for individuals, families, schools, communities, and organizations. They promote positive behavior and include social marketing and other public information efforts.

 

— Selected (Prevention) programs target groups that are exposed to factors that place them at a greater than average risk for the problem. These programs are tailored to reduce identified risk factors and strengthen protective factors. 

 

— Training programs provide curriculum-based instruction to active or future personnel in child and youth service programs. Examples of training programs include caseworker training, child welfare supervisory training, foster parent training, leadership training, guardian/guardian ad-litem training, and childcare assistant training.

 

Support and Facilitation (Coming Soon!)

The support and facilitation services are designed to assist children, adolescents, and their families. They may also support or facilitate the interventions of other programs (for example, child and adolescent protection or support programs for foster or adoptive parents). These strength-based services enhance and support the child or adolescent and family’s well-being.

 

Services can include transporting children/youth served, supervising visitation between family members, individual support, child minding, safe exchange, homemaking services, parent aides, curfew monitoring, peer and youth support and family-to-family support, and translation services. The services are primarily delivered in the home or community.