Specialty Programs
Our Specialty Services
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The Child & Family team works with children and youth at risk of out-of-home placement, using a family-centered, wraparound approach to create a personalized treatment plan. We work with the family to convene a team, which meets monthly, and may consist of family, friends, neighbors, professionals, and others who are important to the youth and family.
This service model allows Child & Family to maintain our program goals to:
Reduce out-of-home placements and decrease inpatient hospitalizations
Provide a more complete continuum of community-based services and supports
Ensure families have access to parent partners & support services
Prevent entry into the foster care system or relinquishment of parental custody
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The Child & Family ACT team, made up of psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and employment specialists works to help keep adults living with serious mental illness out of area psychiatric hospitals and stable in their homes.
The ACT team offers assistance with trauma, housing, medication management, social and coping skills training, employment, overcoming mental illness stigma, Social Security income applications, independent living skills, etc.
This service model allows Child & Family to maintain ACT program goals to:
Lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness
Improve functioning in adult social and employment roles
Enhance individual's ability to live independently in his or her own community
Lessen family's burden of providing care
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OCR enables individuals, who have historically been sent to state mental facilities if deemed to be incompetent to stand trial, to receive their competency restoration in the community.
Once individuals have been deemed incompetent to stand trial and court-ordered to receive Outpatient Competency Restoration, the Child & Family team steps in and competency restoration process begins.
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Child & Family Guidance Center recognizes that teens may be dealing with depression, low self esteem, and high-risk behaviors such as: truancy, delinquency, violence, and teen pregnancy.
The Safety Net team is an additional resource and support system for school staff and students.
Services are provided in 24 middle and high school campuses in Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Denton, and Plano Independent School Districts.