Is your child facing the daily difficulties of dealing with a mental illness? Does it feel overwhelming as you try to coordinate appointments and seek out community resources to improve your child’s and your family’s quality of life?
Hope is the foundation for wellness and recovery here at Creative Health Services, Inc. We strive to provide choices, opportunities and community connections that improve your quality of life.
“Case management is a collaborative process of assessment, planning, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet a child’s and family’s comprehensive health needs through communication and available resources to promote recovery.”
Case Management Society of America (CMSA)
Administrative Case Management (ACM) delivers short term, office based support for children receiving mental health services from multiple providers.
Blended Case Management (BCM) gives priority to children who are at risk for out of home placement and receive mental health services from multiple providers. BCM offers community based support focused on resilience and wellness. The nature of the program is holistic and consumer driven with most services delivered in the community.
Eligibility for Montgomery County Case Management for Children: Children and adolescents, up to and including 18 years of age, and their families can be referred by family, school, behavioral health provider or a social service agency. Children must reside in Montgomery County.
THRIVE…with Connection and Support.
Your convenient access to our differing levels of care is important to us at Creative Health Services.
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We believe that when a child suffering from a mental illness reaches the optimum level of wellness and functional capability, everyone benefits: the child being served, their support systems, and the health care delivery systems.
Case Management Society of America (CMSA)
Services offered to children by Creative Health staff are:
Child Centered as they meet the individual needs of the child, considers the child’s and family’s situation, are developmentally appropriate, strength based and child specific.
Family Focused as the family is recognized as the primary support system for the child. The family is a full partner in all stages of decision making and treatment.
Community Based as both formal and informal resources are accessed in order to promote the child’s successful participation in the community.
Multi-Systemic as they are planned in collaboration with all child-serving systems involved with the child’s life.
Culturally Competent as the behavior, attitudes, values, beliefs, customs, language, rituals, ceremonies and practices of the child’s ethnic group are recognized and respected.
Least Restrictive/Least Intrusive as they are delivered in settings considered the least restrictive and least intrusive and meet the needs of the child.
Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP)