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"Helping adolescents and families to live better lives with a family-centered and community-based approach"
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| The Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit provides: |
- Information and referral
- Brief crisis intervention
- Adolescent Rule 25 chemical use assessment
- Case management services
- Intensive family intervention
- Other resources to families and their "struggling" teen
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| Referrals come primarily from parents, schools, law enforcement, and community mental health professionals. |
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We believe:
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- In a family-centered and community-based approach
- Parents (and guardians) are capable of parenting challenging/oppositional teens when they have the necessary information, support, and services from the community and with the resources within the family
- Adolescents can make responsible and healthy behavioral choices when provided the necessary balance of structure and support
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| Some of the concerns that the Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit works with includes mental health, curfew, runaway, chemical use, truancy, violence, and parent/adolescent conflict. |
The intake workers assess the seriousness of situations, assess family's resources, provide brief interventions and can assist with the setting up of services in the community. If the behavior or situation warrants, the assessor can arrange for an on-going social worker to be assigned to provide longer-term case management services and/or for intensive in-home family intervention services. Case Managers provide longer-term support and services for families with youth with significant emotional and/or behavioral issues. The intensive family intervention workers provide intensive, short-term in-home family based treatment and involve adolescents and their families who are at medium-high to high risk for pre-delinquent or delinquent behavior and/or are at considerable risk for out-of-home placement (or already in placement). |
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Adolescent Chemical Abuse
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| Adolescent chemical abuse services provided to clients in Olmsted County include: |
- Information & referral
- Chemical use assessments for placement (Rule 25) and funding (Rule 24) of chemical abuse treatment
- Case Management
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Information and referral services include:
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- Assisting people in obtaining assessment and treatment services via their own resources (if not MA eligible)
- Rule 25 assessment determines the appropriate level of treatment needed
- Rule 24 utilizes income guidelines to determine financial eligibility for public funding
- Case management services provide ongoing monitoring of individuals engaged in the treatment and recovery process
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