White County LIPT

The underlying purpose for the development of the Local Interagency Planning Team (LIPT) is to improve and facilitate the coordination of services to children with severe emotional disorders (SEDs) and addictive disease.

LIPTs have the following goals:

• To assure that children with severe emotional disorders (SEDs) and addictive disease (ADs) and their families have access to a system of care in their geographic areas;

• To assure the provision of an array of community therapeutic and placement services;

• To decrease fragmentation and duplication of services and maximize the utilization of all available resources in providing needed services;

• To facilitate effective referral and screening systems that will assure that children have access to the services they need to lead productive lives.