Offered in Massachusetts
In Home Behavioral Services are specialized, intensive services and treatments that are driven by the family’s goals. Individualized behavior support plans are created after extensive observations, comprehensive assessments, and functional behavior assessments. Services are provided through the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) funded through Mass Health.
Offered in Massachusetts
The In-Home Therapy program is designed to provide behavioral health services to families and children in order to improve functioning and prevent the need for other more restrictive levels of care. This service is available to members of the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership, Beacon Health Strategies, and Tufts Health Public Plans.
Offered in Massachusetts
The Therapeutic Mentoring program provides support to children at risk for other more restrictive levels of care by supporting the treatment plan of In Home Therapy, Intensive Care Coordination, or Outpatient Therapy. This service is available to members of the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership and Tufts Health Public Plans.
Offered in New York
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) are designed to allow children and youth to participate in developmentally and culturally appropriate services through Medicaid. HCBS are designed for people who, if not receiving these services, would require the level of care provided in a more restrictive environment such as a long-term care facility or psychiatric inpatient care and for those at risk of elevating to that level of care.
To receive HCBS under Medicaid, a child or youth must be determined eligible based on meeting target population, risk factors, and functional criteria measured by the HCBS/LOC Eligibility Determination. This is done by a Health Home and they then make the referral to a HCBS provider. There are 4 services offered under this program:
Caregiver/Family Support Services
Caregiver/Family Supports and Services enhance the child/youth’s ability, regardless of disability (developmental, physical, and/or behavioral), to function as part of a caregiver/family unit and enhance the caregiver/family’s ability to care for the child/youth in the home and/or community. Family is broadly defined, and can include families created through birth, foster care, adoption, or a self-created unit. When outlined in the child/youth’s treatment plan, the service can be delivered to multiple family members or other identified resources for the child/youth by more than one practitioner to address the child/youth’s needs by educating, engaging, and guiding their families to ensure that the child/youth and family’s needs are met.
Prevocational Services
Prevocational Services are individually designed to prepare a youth (age 14 or older) to engage in paid work, volunteer work, or career exploration. Prevocational Services are not job-specific, but rather are geared toward facilitating success in any work environment for youth whose disabilities do not permit them access to other prevocational services. The service will be reflected in youth’s treatment plan and must be directed to teaching skills rather than explicit employment objectives. In addition, Prevocational Services assist with facilitating appropriate work habits, acceptable job behaviors, and learning job production requirements.
Supported Employment
Supported Employment services are individually designed to prepare youth with disabilities (age 14 or older) to engage in paid work. Supported Employment services provide assistance to participants with disabilities as they perform in a work setting. Supported Employment provides ongoing supports to participants who, because of their disabilities, need intensive on-going support to obtain and maintain an individual job in competitive or customized employment, or self-employment, in an integrated work setting in the general workforce for which an individual is compensated at or above the minimum wage, but not less than the customary wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by individuals without disabilities. The outcome of this service is sustained paid employment at or above the minimum wage in an integrated setting in the general workforce, in a job that meets personal and career goals.
Community Self Advocacy Training & Supports
Community Self-Advocacy Training and Support provides family, caregivers, and collateral contacts with techniques and information not generally available so that they can better respond to the needs of the participant. Community Self-Advocacy Training and Support is intended to assist the child/youth, family/caregiver, and collateral contacts in understanding and addressing the participant’s needs related to their disability(ies). The use of this service may appropriately be provided to prevent problems in community settings as well as when the child/youth is experiencing difficulty. The treatment plan objectives must clearly state how the service can prevent as well as ameliorate existing problems and to what degree. Community Self-Advocacy Training and Support improves the child/youth’s ability to gain from the community experience and enables the child/youth’s environment to respond appropriately to the child/youth’s disability and/or healthcare issues.
Offered in Rhode Island
HBTS is an intensive clinical program focusing on strengthening child and family responses to challenging situations and/or behaviors. HBTS requires ongoing caregiver participation in order to meet treatment goals and achieve lasting outcomes.
Offered in New York
Other Licensed Practitioner (OLP): The clinical services provided under OLP are intended to help prevent the progression of behavioral health needs through early identification and intervention and may be provided to children/youth in need of assessment for whom behavioral health conditions have not yet been diagnosed, including but not limited to children ages birth-5. Services are also intended to provide treatment for children/youth with an existing diagnosis for whom flexible community-based treatment is needed to correct or ameliorate conditions identified during an assessment process, such as problems in functioning or capacity for healthy relationships. Services are provided by licensed clinicians.
Community Psychiatric Support and Treatment (CPST): CPST services are goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions intended to address challenges associated with a behavioral health need and to achieve identified goals or objectives as set forth in the child’s treatment plan. Activities provided under CPST are intended to assist the child/youth and family/caregivers to achieve stability and functional improvement in daily living, personal recovery and/or resilience, family and interpersonal relationships in school and community integration. The family/caregiver, therefore, is expected to have an integral role in the support and treatment of the child/youth’s behavioral health need. CPST is designed to provide community-based services to children and families who may have difficulty engaging in formal office settings but can benefit from home and/or community based rehabilitative services. CPST allows for delivery of services within a variety of permissible settings including, but not limited to, community locations where the child/youth lives, works, attends school, engages in services, and/or socializes.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR): PSR services are designed to restore, rehabilitate, and support a child’s/youth’s developmentally appropriate functioning as necessary for the integration of the child/youth as an active and productive member of their family and community with the goal of achieving minimal on-going professional intervention.
Services assist with implementing interventions on a treatment plan to compensate for, or eliminate, functional deficits and interpersonal and/or behavioral health barriers associated with a child/youth’s behavioral health needs. Activities are “hands on” and task oriented, intended to achieve the identified goals or objectives as set forth in the child/youth’s individualized treatment plan. These services must include assisting the child/youth to develop and apply skills in natural settings. PSR services are to be recommended by a licensed practitioner and a part of a treatment plan. The child-youth must have a diagnosis to receive this service.
Family Peer Support Services (FPSS): FPSS are an array of formal and informal activities and supports provided to families caring for/raising a child who is experiencing social, emotional, medical, developmental, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges in their home, school, placement, and/or community.
FPSS provide a structured, strength-based relationship between a Family Peer Advocate (FPA) with lived experience and the parent/family member/caregiver for the benefit of the child/youth. Family is defined as the primary caregiving unit and is inclusive of the wide diversity of primary caregiving units in our culture. Family is a birth, foster, adoptive, or self- created unit of people residing together, with significant attachment to the individual, consisting of adult(s) and/or child(ren), with adult(s) performing duties of parenthood/caregiving for the child(ren) even if the individual is living outside of the home.
Youth Peer Support (YPS): YPS services are formal and informal services and supports provided to youth, who are experiencing social, medical, emotional, developmental, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges in their home, school, placement, and/or community-centered services. These services provide the training and support necessary to ensure engagement and active participation of the youth in the treatment planning process and with the ongoing implementation and reinforcement of skills.
YPS activities must be intended to develop and achieve the identified goals and/or objectives as set forth in the youth’s individualized treatment plan. The structured, scheduled activities provided by this service emphasize the opportunity for the youth to expand the skills and strategies necessary to move forward in meeting their personal, individualized life goals, develop self-advocacy skills, and to support their transition into adulthood.
Offered in Massachusetts & New York
Our PRIDE program offers outpatient (in-office, via telehealth, or a combination) individual, family, and couples therapy to clients who identify as LGBTQIA+ and their loved ones. In addition, NFS’ PRIDE Program offers an array of home-based services, such as in-home therapy (IHT), In-home behavioral services (IHBS), and therapeutic mentoring (TM) in the community. Home and community-based services create the opportunity for our clients to receive the highest quality mental and behavioral health care while in their familiar, everyday environments. Recognizing that no single approach meets all of our program participants’ needs, treatment is based on guidance from reputable LGBTQIA+ sources and allows for the client and family to have a powerful voice in their own treatment plan.
Our inclusive PRIDE Team consists of highly qualified mental health professionals and para-professionals who are a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. They are able to share a unique and compassionate connection with each client and family. Our team participates in LGBTQIA+ specific cultural awareness trainings to ensure they are responsive to the diverse needs of the community, while providing trauma-competent, effective therapeutic services with each client and family system. Our PRIDE Team is thoughtful in our choice of respectful language, behaviors, and continued education to best reflect the current needs and expectations of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Offered in Massachusetts & Rhode Island
ABA is an evidenced-based approach to understanding and changing behavior. By determining the function of behaviors, a behavior analyst identifies ways to modify the home environment and teach new skills to improve an individual’s health and safety, ability to communicate, and family relationships.
The ABA Program serves individuals across Massachusetts between the ages of 3 and 22 who carry an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. Our services consist of behavioral skills assessments, functional behavior assessments, direct services provided by a Behavior Technician, supervision of direct services by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and consultation and training provided to families and caregivers.
Our services focus on addressing the core diagnostic criteria associated with an ASD diagnosis, specifically increasing communication skills, teaching social skills, and decreasing challenging behavior. Additionally, our staff work to help clients grow their skills in the areas of activities of daily living, self-care and personal hygiene, play and leisure skills, safety skills, tolerance skills, and community integration skills.
We use the principles of ABA, or applied behavior analysis, to effect meaningful changes in behavior through the analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of environmental factors. Core components to the use of ABA include direct observation, measurement, and functional assessment of the relationship between behavior and the environment. We use the information gathered through these methods to alter specific variables within the environment to produce helpful changes in behavior.
Social Skills Groups: NFS proudly offers a variety of telehealth social skills groups to current ABA clients. These groups use commonalities among clients to provide important social skill instruction and promote skill acquisition and generalization.
ACE Provider: NFS is an ACE provider, offering monthly Journal Club CEU events and quarterly Expert Speaker CEU events.
ABA Pride: Effective ABA hinges on detailed environmental assessments, and we believe that members of the LGBTQ+ community have deeply unique experiences that must be reflected in their behavioral services. Understanding the needs of our LGBTQ+ clients is essential to building a positive behavioral plan to help them work toward their goals. Clinicians who are well-versed in these topics will be able to provide ABA services that are fully in line with our clients’ lives.
Offered in Illinois
Pathways to Success is a program for Medicaid enrolled children under the age of 21 in Illinois who have complex behavioral health needs and could benefit from additional support. The program provides access to an evidence-informed model of intensive care coordination and additional home and community-based services. NFS provides three different services through Pathways: Intensive Home-Based Therapy, Therapeutic Mentoring and Family Peer Support. These services are designed to provide wrap-around care to families in need.
Offered in Illinois
Let Northeast Family Services encircle your family with Wraparound treatment comprised of formal services and your natural supports.
We are honored to bring our almost two decades of experience providing home and community-based services in other states to the communities of Illinois. Circle of Care is based on Wraparound Principles: Culturally Humble, Youth Guided, Family Driven, Team Based, Community Based & Collaborative, and Data & Outcome Driven.
Circle of Care empowers you and your youth to lead the treatment that is being provided. NFS brings the services to you and alleviates the barriers of having to travel to appointments in between your busy schedule. Circle of Care provides intensive support without needing a higher level of care.
Circle of Care In Home Therapy: Northeast Family Services’ Circle of Care Therapists are master’s level clinicians that will provide intensive therapy in your home, focused on the goals that are important to you. NFS partners with you to address behaviors such as school refusal, strained relationships, following directions, and setting limits, etc.
Youth Community Mentoring: Northeast Family Services’ Youth Community Mentors are individuals that meet with your youth one-to-one in the community to develop skills based on treatment goals identified by you and your youth. This can include frustration management, anger management, social skills, and coping skills.
Family Community Mentoring: NFS’ Family Community Mentors are parents or caregivers with lived experience parenting young individuals navigating the behavioral health system in Illinois. Our mentors are experienced in advocating for youth, accessing resources, and identifying community supports and are eager to partner with you through your journey.
Offered in Rhode Island
PASS is a community-based program for individuals 6-21 with special healthcare needs. Services focus on personal care, safety, and socialization. Families direct the development of their child’s service plan and supervise its implementation.
Offered in Rhode Island
Respite provides temporary care for children with special needs. This allows families time away from caregiving responsibilities. Families have the ability to identify the caregiver and when services are needed. Respite can range from a few hours to overnight care.
