Youth Case Management Services:

Our services offer families, children, and youth needed assistance to obtain and coordinate other community resources and services that will enhance the child's or youth's ability to remain with his or her family in the community and to participate fully in the community. The case manager also helps families advocate for their children and family and use their own strengths and natural supports to accomplish their goals.

• Contact: Carter Anderson, 782-2042.

Family Support Services offer parenting education, skill-building activities for children and youth, one-to-one therapeutic support, counseling, therapeutic or recreation groups, respite, and 24-hour program coverage.

Services are individually designed by the family and their intervention team (a clinician, treatment specialist, treatment technician and other community-based professionals) and implemented through a strength-based action plan. Delivery of services occurs in the family's home and in the community, as needed, seven days a week for children and youth, from birth through age eighteen.

• Contact: Marylyn Hutchinson, 782-2042.

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School-Based Mental Health Services :

Our services make additional supports available for youth who are struggling with behavioral and emotional issues in their current school placement.

Staff work closely with teachers and other school personnel in providing assessment, program planning, skill-building activities with the youth, one-to-one therapeutic support, and therapy based on the youth's individualized action plan. In addition, consultation, training and support are offered to school personnel.

• Contact Carter Anderson, 782-2042

Therapeutic Foster Care offers daily care and treatment services in a safe environment for children and youth. The foster parents are professional caregivers who provide individualized supports for children or youth residing their home based on a strength-based action plan.

In addition, a clinician, a treatment specialist, a treatment technician provide support to the child or youth and the foster parents as detailed on the action plan.

• Contact: Michelle Hoover, 782-2042.

Early Head Start Services:

Early Head Start is a federally funded program serving low-income infants and toddlers and their families as well as expectant families. EHS has two state-licensed centers, one in Dillon and one in Butte. We serve 20 infants and toddlers and families at our Butte Center and 14 at our Dillon Center.

We provide the following at our centers:

• high quality full-day-full-year child care;
• child developmental screening and assessment;
• individualized child curriculum;
• nutrition assessment and consultation;
• mental health consultation;
• parent education and support groups;
• family goal planning;
• family case management; and
• immunization and child-well check tracking.

Additionally, we serve six expectant families in Butte and Dillon combined; we provide home-based prenatal education, case management and prenatal support groups to our expectant families.

• Contact: Tom Richards,
  782-0455 (Butte), or
  in Dillon: 683-6335 or 683-6312.

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Intensive Therapeutic Group Home Services:

Our services offer daily care and residential services for youth in a home-like environment. Four male or female youth are served in each home. Close supervision, needed structure, and individualized supports are provided by trained caregiving staff who implement each youth's strength-based treatment plan daily.

In addition, youth participate in skill building activities, both individual sessions and therapeutic groups, and community-based activities. Family involvement is encouraged. When discharged, youth transition from a therapeutic group home to therapeutic foster care, transitional living, or family support services after approximately nine months.

• Contact: Terri Waldorf, 494-1772.