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Intensive Family Services (IFS)

Intensive family Services (IFS) is a program within the San Joaquin County Behavioral Health Children and Youth Services Division. It provides planned mental health services to children and families who have been placed in the Family Vision SB 163 Wraparound Program. Services provided by trained mental health and rehabilitative staff include individual and family therapy, rehabilitative skill building, parent support and education addressing a variety of mental health issues affecting youth today. The team emphasizes and strives for excellent collaboration with other service providers, including the Wraparound staff, in order to help children and their families to achieve their goals.

The FICS Foster Care Assessment and Treatment Program (FCAT) provides assessment and mental health treatment services in compliance with E.P.S.D.T. (Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment) regulations.

Objectives of this program are:

to assess all children removed from their homes for the need of mental health services
to provide brief mental health services needed
to refer children to Children's Mental Health for day treatment, residential services, or inpatient services
facilitate linkage with other mental health and community resources as necessary

FICS Family Vision (SB 163) includes long term services, extensive integration with county systems and family-based service alternatives to group home care, targeting Wraparound as the service philosophy. The program includes a strengths based action planning process that creates individualized services and support for families with complex needs. The goal is to create better outcomes for young people and their families in a way that assures families are at the center of the decision-making process and have a voice and choice in the services provided.

Juvenile Justice Assesment Treatment (JJAT) is a program within the San Joaquin County Behavioral Health Children and Youth Services Division. JJAT is comprised of specially trained mental health clinical and rehabilitation staff utilizing an integrated service model. We strive to meet the unique needs and stages of treatment necessary for youth and families experiencing the impacts of mental health issues, substance experimentation, use and abuse, and juvenile justice involvement. JJAT provides ongoing evidence based Aggression Replacement Training (ART) Groups to all youth in the program.

Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) is an Early Period Screening Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) "Supplemental Specialty Mental Health Service." The program provides critical, short-term support when other specialty mental health interventions have not been, or are not expected to be, effective without the additional supportive one to one service. The TBS program is designed to provide a therapeutic behavioral support to a child/caregiver for a specified, short-term period of time. This is intended to maintain the child/adolescent's living situation at the lowest appropriate level of care by resolving target behaviors and developing positive replacement skills. Service is provided only to children/adolescents who can be expected to benefit from the program. Goals and objectives of the service are reviewed every 30 days to ensure that the services remain individualized, appropriate, and focused on positve behavior change outcomes.

The purpose of TBS is to provide structure and support, assist the child/adolescent to engage in appropriate activities, minimize impulsivity, decrease aggression and increase social and community competencies by building or reinstating those living skills that will assist the child/adolescent to live successfully.

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