Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division

The CAMHD Behavioral Health Plan serves three distinct youth populations:

• Medicaid eligible youth needing Support for Emotional and Behavioral Development services,
• Youth with an educational disability in need of intensive mental health services to benefit from public education, and
• Youth with emotional and/or behavioral changes presenting at juvenile justice.

Children from three through twenty years of age with QUEST or Medicaid fee-for-service health insurance may be eligible to receive the highest levels of social and emotional health services coordinated through CAMHD's team of mental health professionals. CAMHD's eight Family Guidance Centers (FGCs) serve as the public's guide into the services delivery system of assessments and services specifically designed to address the individual needs of the child and family.

A team of health and education professionals together with the parents or guardians prepares a comprehensive service plan based on information gathered on the child. A service plan may include: intensive case management; outpatient behavioral health services; crisis residential services; intensive out outpatient hospital services; home and community based instruction; Multisystemic Therapy; therapeutic foster homes; community based residential programs, and hospital based residential programs.

For those familiar with the SEBD sources of CAMHD, the latest referral forms are online for your use. Please call 733-9815 for available electronic copies of the forms.