Our BHRS (Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services) Program is a comprehensive home, school and community based program designed to provide therapeutic services for children and youth faced with mental retardation and developmental disabilites or behaviors that place a child at risk of developing severe emotional disorders. Services are client-centered, family oriented and community based and stress a Team approach to service delivery. The Team encompasses Touch-Stone Solutions staff, other professionals, agencies and resources that come together with the client and their family to develop a comprehensive plan of care and services. This Team then addresses individually defined goals and outcomes that guide the services provided. The Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services Program is guided by, believes in and practices the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) principles. Services are provided in the least intrusive community based environment to prevent out-of-home placement, enhancing the client's opportunity to remain in their community and to be sustained within their family environment. All services must be substantiated by medical necessity, approved by Medical Asssitance and provided to clients with a primary mental health disorder and a diagnosis of mental retardation. Treatment planning and therapeutic services are designed around the client's strengths. Services are provided in the home, the school, the community or any combination of these settings. Services: A comprehensive array of treatment options that are provided with the ongoing approval of Medical Assistance and that are medically indicated for individuals with a primary mental health disorder and a diagnosis of mental retardation. Services are intended to sustain the client in the community and in their home while affording them the opportunities to overcome their challenges, improve their coping skills, build on their strengths and find success. Services are provided in the least intrusive manner with the support and participation of the client and their family. The array of services in most instances includes: Psychological Evaluations: Touch-Stone Solutions, Inc. does not directly provide psychological evaluations but utilizes community based licensed psychologists that are contracted to provide initial and ongoing assessment and evaluations. In some circumstances when required, the client and/or the client's family may privately seek services for the required psychological assessments and re-assessments in support of services delivered and to be delivered. Behavioral Specialist Consultation (BSC): Agency based professional staff whose primary responsibility is to develop and design behavioral interventions subsequent to the details of the psychological assessment. These behavioral plans and related interventions must be goal and outcomes oriented with emphasis on being client-centered, family focused and community based. They provide support and guidance to therapeutic staff support, primary caregivers, parents, other providers and school personnel when applicable. They not only design interventions but also monitor and chart progress toward reshaping identified behavioral challenges. Mobile Therapy (MT): Agency based professional staff whose major role is to work closely with the client, parents, family and/or primary caregiver to guide the treatment process. Their basic goal is to affect changes in the challenging behaviors that the client presents by promoting new alternatives, improved self sufficiency and resolution to related family concerns. The mobile therapist is the most frequently encountered staff person the family or parent encounters in addressing behavioral challenges. Therapeutic Staff Support (TSS): Agency based staff whose primary responsibility is to work closely with the client in a one-to-one relationship providing interventions, supports and guidance. They provide an array of interventions in support of the outcomes and goals defined by the behavioral specialist consultant and/or the mobile therapist. These services may be provided in the home, in school and in the community or in a predetermined combination of locations. Services emphasize positive behavioral reinforcement, emotional supports, time structuring activities and time-out strategies or other psychosocial rehabilitative activities as prescribed in the child's treatment plan and crisis intervention techniques. Eligibility for services: Criteria for service eligibility can be defined and clarified by contacting either Touch-Stone Solutions' BHRS Program directly or through your County Human Services Office. Primary criteria is a client under twenty one years of age with a primary mental health disorder and a diagnosis of mental retardation. Access to services: At this time Behavioral Health Rehabilitative Services through Touch-Stone Solutions, Inc. is available in Crawford, Venango and Clarion Counties. Funding for these services are based on the prior approval of Medical Assistance as based on medical necessity. Contact us for additional information.

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