Children’s Crisis Team (CCT) - The Children’s Crisis Team is Child & Family’s crisis intervention and stabilization team. This team provides crisis response and outreach services, liaison to juvenile detention and the County’s secure Crisis Residential Center. They also provide access to the Children’s Stabilization Room (CSR) in emergency or crisis situations. For those crisis clients that meet the requirements, the team provides brief therapy.
Community Support Team - The Community Support Team provides mental health assessments for Child and Family Outpatient services. In addition, the team provides collaborative brief treatment for children with serious emotional problems and their families or caregivers.
Children, youth and families participate in designing and implementing a plan for treatment focus that will help insure their success. This may include individual and family therapy and consultation with other important people in the child’s life. Also, available are a variety of skill building and support groups designed to help our clients meet their goals. We are dedicated to helping clients access their strengths and discover solutions to the challenges they face. A team member also provides child, family and staff consultation and staff training to Head Start, ECEAP, Early Head Start and Child Care Connections throughout Kitsap County.
Home-Based Family Services - Kitsap Mental Health Services' Home Based Family Services is a strengths-based, family centered, comprehensive program designed to work in collaboration with families and other community providers. Believing the family to be a child's greatest resource, Home-Based Family Services therapists provide counseling in families' homes and communities, those places where the difficulties are often occurring.
Services provided include a range of evidence-based practices and are tailored to the needs of each individual family. Services may include therapy, education and skill building, advocacy, co-occurring disorders assessment and treatment, multi-system case coordination, development of natural supports and fun finding, as well as ongoing assessment.
Home-Based Family Services therapists have smaller caseloads and have more flexibility with their schedules. Therapists are able to meet with families more frequently and for several hours at a time if indicated.
Intensive Children’s Services (Treatment Foster Care) - Intensive Children’s Services (ICS) is comprised of two distinct programs, Specialized Family Care (SFC), and Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC). ICS, a Child Placing Agency, also recruits and trains its own foster parents.
Specialized Family Care (SFC) provides specialized and extensive outpatient treatment with 35 slots for children from 3 to 17 years of age who are in foster care, at risk of being placed outside the home, or are returning from out-of-home placement. The SFC program provides treatment and basic foster care and in-home wrap-around services to these children and families through Children’s Administration.
In addition to regular and treatment foster care, services may include individual, family or group therapy, case management/care coordination with other child-serving systems, case aid support, respite services, or 24-hour crisis response. Our SFC program also provides community resource and support linkage to other services necessary to support the child, including collaboration with schools, the juvenile court and the Children’s Administration.
The goal of SFC is to work with the biological family whenever possible to reunite the family or to secure another long-term placement for the child. The program capacity is 20-25 children. Placements may be short-term or up to 18 months. For more information please contact Kristine Welch at 360-479-4994 or kristine@kmhs.org.
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) is an evidence based treatment foster care program for children
12 – 18 years of age with 10 slots throughout Kitsap, Clallam and Jefferson Counties. It’s a specific model that limits one child per home. Youth referred to the MTFC program have been targeted for possible long-term inpatient treatment or will benefit from structure and support of the MTFC program as a “step down” before returning home. Goals for this program include: (1) Conduct a thorough assessment and treatment home “match” for the referred youth; (2) Collaboratively develop and follow a behavior specific treatment plan and crisis plan; (3) Provide 24-hour support for youth and the treatment family; (4) Limit access to delinquent peers; (5) Specify clear and consistent limits and consequences; (6) Teach new skills for forming relationships; and (7) Enhance parenting skills in the biological or aftercare resource family. For more information please contact Gina Ochoa at 360-479-4994 or
ginao@kmhs.org.
Madrona Day Treatment - Madrona Day Treatment combines a supportive therapeutic environment with individualized academics to serve severely emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children who cannot be accommodated in their home schools. The goal of MDT is to help children develop the skills necessary to be successful at home, in school and in their relationships with others.
In addition, MDT can be a diagnostic option for school districts and parents who are struggling to develop appropriate programs for difficult children and complex problems. Madrona staff will work closely with home school districts to develop a plan to ensure students’ success in their transition back to school. The program meets daily and has the capacity to serve twelve children. A therapist, a Special Education teacher, a behavior interventionist, a program assistant and a supervisor staff the program.
Youth Inpatient Unit - The Youth Inpatient Unit (YIU) is a 10-bed inpatient facility for evaluation and short-term treatment of children and youth (8 to 17 years old) who suffer severe emotional disturbances and are not appropriate for less restrictive treatment. Priority consideration for services is given to residents of the Peninsula Regional Support Network. The youth may enter services as a voluntary client or be detained under the Involuntary Treatment Act. The YIU is philosophically directed toward returning the youth to the community as soon as possible to finish treatment in an outpatient setting. The YIU is accessed through the Children’s Crisis Team or, after hours, through the County Designated Mental Health Professionals. Additionally, the YIU performs a regional function of Children’s Long-Term Inpatient Placement (CLIP) referral coordination.
Medical and Nursing Services
These services provide consumer evaluation, maintenance and monitoring of clients' need for and use of psychotropic medication. In addition, the physical health of clients is monitored to help differentiate between psychiatric problems and "psychiatric like" symptoms caused by physical complications. Side effects of medication are also monitored.
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