Overview:
Children’s Outpatient Services provides treatment for children and adolescents and their families and is intended to improve and maintain a child’s or an adolescent’s stability in the community. Treatment focuses on problem resolution, symptom reduction, stabilization and/or prevention of movement to a higher level of care. Services include individual, family and group therapy, medication evaluation and management, case management, in home intervention, case consultation and summer day treatment services. The type of treatment is highly variable and depends upon the individual’s existing symptoms and developmental level.
Responsibilities:

Care coordination Responsibilities:

• Completes a comprehensive home-based assessment of the consumer’s needs and strengths utilizing the CANS within 14 days of intake
• Identifies goals and plans for appropriate services based on the CANS
• Develops Individualized Service Plan (ISP) within 30 of first face-to-face meeting
• Intensively collaborates with the treatment team members and outside sources in the delivery of care coordination
• Provides appropriate linkage to community resources
• Provides ongoing monitoring of consumers’ progress and needs as assessed in the CANS
• Advocates on behalf of the consumers to secure community resources
• Evaluates the consumer for discharge planning
• Effectively demonstrates the application of child/adolescent specific competencie

Administrative and Other Related Duties as Assigned:

• Actively participates in Performance Improvement activities
• Actively participates in AltaPointe committees as required
• Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner
• Follows AltaPointe policies and procedures
• Attends to required in-service training and other workshop