BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT SERVICES

 

 

 

The Behavioral Treatment Unit provides technical and financial assistance to local county offices requiring help in locating or funding out-of-home placements for children with emotional/behavioral problems.  The Division of Children and Family Services provides these placements through contracts with private providers or Medicaid providers.  Services purchased are therapeutic foster care, residential treatment, comprehensive residential treatment, emergency shelter, case management and specialized foster care placements for developmentally delayed children and sexual offender treatment programs.

 

 

 

The following services were provided through contracts during SFY 1999: 

 

 

 

Therapeutic Foster Care	12 programs
Comprehensive Residential Treatment	5 programs
Emergency Shelter	11 programs
Specialized Foster Care Services for Developmentally Delayed Children	3 programs
Residential Treatment	6 programs
Sexual Offenders Treatment Programs	7 programs
Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment	6  hospitals
Independent Living Programs	1   program
Comprehensive Case Management	1   program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source:  Behavioral Treatment Services