system of care for rhode island's children, youth and families

APPENDIX E: COMPONENTS OF THE CONTINUUM OF CARE
WITHIN RHODE ISLAND’S IDEAL SYSTEM OF CARE
THE COMPONENTS OF THE CONTINUUM OF CARE INCLUDE:
! General and specialized targeted prevention
! Early Intervention
! Quality child care and youth care services
! Educational Services
! Medical and dental services
! Social Skills development
! School-based mental health services
! Comprehensive assessments and evaluation
! Mobile crisis intervention services
! Case Management
! Short-term in-home acute care services (i.e., CIS, CES)
! Outpatient therapy (family, group, and individual)
! Outpatient Substance Abuse services for children, youth and their families
! Child abuse and neglect prevention and investigation
! Therapeutic Recreation
! Therapeutic child care
! Out of School Time programs
! Mentoring
! Day Treatment programs
! Community-based programs and services for juvenile offenders, including:
! Outreach and Tracking
! Day Reporting Centers
! Inter-agency Intensive Supervision programs for high-risk probationers (i.e., Safe Streets)
! Out-of-home care:
• Kinship and foster care
• Therapeutic foster care
• Group home care, general and specialized
• Specialized Residential treatment including residential substance abuse treatment
and hospital diversion/stepdown
• Out-of-home Respite care
• Acute psychiatric hospitalization
• Incarceration
• Residential alternatives to incarceration, including staff secure programs
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