Our Mission
The mission of Family Support Systems’ Mental Health Department is to provide support and services to enable the children in care who have developmental disabilities, including emotional and behavioral health needs, to live as responsibly, independently and productively as possible. We are responsible for ensuring that our children receive timely and individualized services that are effective, and promote mental and emotional stability.
Services
We employ a number of treatment modalities, and below are listed some of the services utilized to assess and address the mental challenges of our children :
- Evaluations-social, educational, developmental and mental (done in-house); comprehensive psychological and psychiatric (primarily via referrals)
- Group Therapy- covering anger management, development of positive self-esteem concepts, depression, and social skills.
- Individualized ongoing counseling.
- Treatment-administered through case management and referrals to stabilize and enhance the individual’s ability to function normally inside and outside of the home.
Additionally, we include in the delivery of services, biological analysis, behavioral medicine, child & adolescent psychiatry, medical psychology and outpatient psychiatry. Family Support Systems continually seeks to broaden the scope and intensity of its services and training of the staff, to ensure that our program can properly serve those families and children with mental and emotional needs.
The Medical Department at Family Support Systems ensures that all children in care are current in their immunization, physical, and dental examination and specialized services, if required. The department maintains files of all medical and dental records, and monitors them to keep the information complete and current. Our agency physician and nurses administer physicals, immunization shots, and monitors children requiring a higher level of care, due to diagnosis and medical needs. They also provide basic health care maintenance and nutritional counseling. |
