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New Jersey Division of Child Behavioral Health (DCBHS) Service Descriptions |
| Family Support Organization (FSO) has staff and volunteers that are both parents and caregivers of children with complex emotional and behavioral challenges. It provides face-to-face peer support for families by family support staff and trained family volunteers, education about programs, and volunteer opportunities. |
| Care Management Organization (CMO) staff that work with children and families that have a need for intensive support. Staff work with families to create, and put into action, an individualized service plan (ISP) to meet the intensive emotional and behavioral needs of each child and family. |
| Youth Case Management (YCM) staff work with children and families that have a need for moderate support. Staff work with families to create, and put into action, a service plan to meet the moderate emotional and behavioral needs of each child and family. |
| CSA Care Coordination (CSA) staff work with children and families that have a need for basic support. Staff work with families, by phone, to create, and put into action, a service plan to meet the emotional and behavioral needs of each child and family. |
| Mobile Response Stabilization System (MRSS) provides rapid response to children and families with urgent needs, within 1 hour from the time of phone contact to the CSA. This helps keep youth in their home, and tries to avoid placing the youth outside the home. |
| Behavioral Assistance (BA) provides behavioral interventions to children where they live to work on their behavioral health challenges. Licensed therapists supervise Behavioral Assistant staff. |
| Intensive In-Community Services (IIC) provides trained therapists who visit families to provide interventions to children with behavioral health needs and their families to assist children to stay at home, in school and out of trouble. |
| Out-of-Home Placement (OH) is community-based 24-hour services that offer room, board, and clinical care for youth who need more intensive care, supervision and structure than their home can provide. The four types differ in the level of guidance they use: Treatment Homes (basic guidance), Group Homes (moderate guidance), Residential Treatment Centers (intensive guidance), and Psychiatric Community Residences (maximum guidance). |
