Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Waiver Program
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:
YES services include:
Services are provided in the following counties: Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall. For eligibility for services, a child or adolescent should meet the following criteria:
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
YES services include:
- Specialized Therapies
Non-traditional services that provide alternative and creative forms of therapy to help improve the youth’s health, welfare, and functioning in their community, including:- Animal Assisted Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Music Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Community Living Supports - Help families adjust to special challenges related to the youth’s mental health needs by using proven practices and strategies.
- Family Supports - Connect family members with others who can support them by sharing similar lived experienced.
- Employee Assistance and Supported Employment - Help youth find a job and be successful in it.
- Paraprofessional Services - Help with stressful situations through coaching and mentoring.
- Respite Services - Allow families and caretakers to take a temporary break from caring for youth enrolled in YES.
- Non-Medical Transportation - Take youth to YES Waiver services when no other transportation is available.
- Supportive Family-Based Alternatives - Provide support and model healthy interactions for the whole family while the youth temporarily lives in a therapeutic home.
- Adaptive Aids and Supports - Supplement YES services with medically necessary supports to prevent out-of-home placement.
- Minor Home Modifications - Support the youth’s ability to function independently at home and in the community.
- Transition Services - Help with the costs associated with a youth moving into their own home.
Services are provided in the following counties: Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall. For eligibility for services, a child or adolescent should meet the following criteria:
Child or adolescent must also have serious functional impairments that include:
Youth must be eligible for Medicaid (parent income does not apply)
- risk of harm to self or others
- disruptive/ aggressive behavior
- poor school behavior
Youth must be eligible for Medicaid (parent income does not apply)
Enrollment
For more information or to request an evaluation please contact Child & Family Guidance Center at the following number:
YES Inquiry Line
(866) 501-6535
(866) 501-6535
