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About Us

Sometimes children need more help than others. The Department of Health and Human Services can be of assistance. Call your district office and ask for Children's Behavioral Health Services to get information and referrals for children with behavioral health care needs such as:

• Developmental disabilities/delays
• Mental retardation
• Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)/autism
• Substance abuse
• Mental health disorders

Mission

Children’s Behavioral Health Services provides leadership in the development of a comprehensive system of care that ensures that each child develops to his/her full potential. The system of care strengthens the capacity of families, promotes natural helping networks, and develops community resources to meet behavioral, developmental, and treatment needs of children.

Guiding Principles

• Services should be based on the family’s and child’s strengths
• Families and youth should be full participants in all aspects of planning and delivery of services.
• Children should receive services in the least restrictive , most normative environment that is clinically possible.
• Focus is to build and foster natural and community-based supports with each family.

Children's Behavioral Health Services Organizational Chart

DHHS guiding principles, mission, values, goals and outcomes

 

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