Youth Empowerment Services

Services & Goals
Youth Empowerment Services (YES Waiver) are community-based services to children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances. Children at risk for out of home placement are served by a team of mental health professionals who create an individual treatment plan and utilize a wrap around treatment approach to encourage and sustain family placement. By utilizing the wrap around process and accessing area resources, this service model allows CFGC 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.

Who is Eligible?
Services are provided in the following counties:
Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall.
Families seeking services should meet the following criteria:
Children ages 3-18 years old.
Reside in a non-institutional setting.
Serious functional impairments that include:
Risk of Harm
Disruptive/Aggressive
Limited Resources
Poor School Behavior
Current Mental Health Diagnosis
Expectation that the child or adolescent would qualify for inpatient care.
Child or adolescent must be eligible for Medicaid.

​Enrollment
For more information or to request an evaluation please contact CFGC
​at the following number:
YES Inquiry Line
(866) 501-6535