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NEVADA DIVISION OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
Community-Based Outpatient Services
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Early Childhood Mental Health Services – birth to six years
of age |
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Early Childhood Mental Health Services provides services to
children between birth and six years of age with emotional
disturbance or high risk factors for emotional and
behavioral disturbance and associated developmental delays.
The goal of services is to strengthen parent-child
relationships, support the family’s capacity to care for
their children and to enhance the child’s social and
emotional functioning. |
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Behavioral and
psychological
assessments,
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Individual,
family, and
group therapies
and behavioral
management,
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Psychiatric
services,
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Day treatment,
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In-home crisis
intervention,
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Childcare and
pre-school
consultation,
outreach, and
training,
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Clinical case
management.
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Outpatient
Services/Children’s
Clinical Services |
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The Outpatient
Services/Children’s
Clinical Services
provides
community-based
outpatient,
individual and
family oriented
mental health
services for
children from 6
through 17 years of
age. These services
include: |
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Individual,
family, and
group therapies
and behavioral
management,
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Psychological
assessment and
evaluation,
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Psychiatric
services,
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Clinical case
management,
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Consultation
with other child
serving entities
involved with
the child and
family,
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24-hour on-call
emergency
professional
coverage.
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Program Highlight |
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Wraparound in Nevada
for Children and
Families (WIN) |
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DCFS’ nationally
recognized
“promising practice”
program, Wraparound
in Nevada (WIN),
provides intensive
community-based
services to
Severely
Emotionally
Disturbed Children
(SED) who are in
the custody of the
Child Welfare
system. These
behaviorally
challenged youth
come from families
who struggle with
complex personal
challenges in
addition to
difficulties keeping
their children safe
and free from harm.
In addition to
addressing mental
health needs,
services support the
achievement of
permanency for these
youth through
reunification with
their families,
guardianship with
relatives, adoption
or successful
emancipation in all
three regions
statewide. Mental
health care for
these youth is
essential to the
success of achieving
permanent
placements. The WIN
program achieves
powerful outcomes in
unique ways. |
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WIN focuses on
the strengths of
each family
member to move
them forward to
independence and
self-sufficiency
without life
long dependence
on mental health
professionals.
Families become
equal
participants in
their plan of
care as they
move towards
independence.
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WIN uses common
sense
interventions to
help families
overcome
barriers to
caring for SED
children at
home. Helping
families address
basic needs
(e.g. housing
and
transportation)
and
reestablishing
community
support from
extended
families,
friends, and the
faith community
are two primary
ways that WIN
empowers
families to
achieve
independence and
meet the needs
of SED children.
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WIN ensures that
all community
members and
professionals
work together in
a seamless way
to streamline
services, avoid
duplication of
services, and
communicate
clearly with
families and
children.
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WIN ensures that
relative,
guardians, and
adoptive parents
identify needs
and find
solutions that
insure
permanency when
a child cannot
return home.
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Untreated Severe
Emotional
Disturbance in
children is a major
reason for disrupted
permanency. The
following outcome
data exemplifies the
point that
addressing mental
health needs is
essential to
achieving these
permanent placements
for youth in the
child welfare
system.
Fact:
68.5% of the 216
youth discharged
from WIN
achieved permanent
living environment
placements.
Fact:
43.1% of the 216
children discharged
from WIN
were
placed back in their
family homes.
Fact:
25.4% of the 216
children discharged
from WIN
were
placed with
guardians,
relatives, and
adoptive
homes or were
established in
independent living. |
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Promising Practices
Network |
