LOUISIANA Community Mental Health Services Block Grant ...

local interagency team or for a client who‟s needs require multiple services with 24 hour
availability; Level 5: Sixteen (16) hours of contacts. Priority groups include youth who are at risk
for placement in residential programs - referred to local interagency team or for a client whose
needs require multiple services with 24 hour availability.
Individualized Deferred Disposition (IDD) – Diversion services for youth with/mental health issues
involved in the Juvenile Court in Caddo Parish.
SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES
EDUCATION ACT
FY 2011 – Child/Youth
Please refer to Criterion 3: Children’s Services, Educational Services, including services provided
under IDEA for information on this topic.
TRANSITION OF YOUTH TO ADULT SERVICES
FY 2011 – Child/Youth
The Office of Behavioral Health, Department of Education, and Department of Social Services are
working with transitional age youth to identify and implement a strategic plan to provide peer
supports and community resourced for successful transition to secondary educational settings.
Summarized below are representative programs from each Hospital and Region / LGE in the state
that facilitate the smooth transition of youth to adult services.
SELH:
Developmental Neuropsychiatric Program (Inpatient Services) includes social skills training,
family therapy, and behavior management, parent training, and medication management to
persons with co-occurring disorders
Developmental Neuropsychiatric Program (Outpatient Services) includes parent training,
home/school behavior management, medication management to persons with co-occurring
disorders
Challenges Program – Day treatment which offers therapeutic, educational, and behavioral
treatments as well as medication interventions, 5 days a week
Youth services (Inpatient) – 24 hr. a day, 7 days a week individual, group and family
therapy, parent training, medication management, special education, and competency
restoration
ELMHS:
Spring House - A group home/residential treatment program for teenage girls in the custody
of the Office of Community Services
MHSD:
Interagency Service Coordination (ISC) is offered to children between the ages of 7 and 18
to coordinate services/resources
CAHSD:
PART C LOUISIANA FY 2011 PAGE 215
SECTION III: CHILD/ YOUTH PLAN – CRITERION 1
COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY-BASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES -- SYSTEM OF CARE & AVAILABLE SERVICES