Finding Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health Services in the Network
Mental Health
Outpatient, Inpatient, and Residential Services
Substance Use Disorder
Outpatient, Inpatient, and Residential Services
As a Blair County resident with Medical Assistance (the name for Medicaid in Pennsylvania), you are a Community Care Member. Community Care is the Behavioral Health portion of your Medical Assistance insurance. The child & adolescent behavorial health services below are what is available to you for your behavioral health needs. The lists contain both Mental Health Services and Substance Use Disorder Services. Select the “+” next to each service to get a brief description of each. To find providers that offer these services, use the link below to search Community Care’s “find a provider” section of their website, or call the Member Services number listed.
Mental Health Services
Mental Health Services are defined as assessment, diagnosis, treatment, or counseling to assist an individual or group in the recovery of mental or emotional illness, symptoms, conditions, or disorders.
Our Outpatient & Community based Mental Health Services include
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Outpatient Therapy
Outpatient services are a good place to start when you think you need help and need someone to talk to about your issues. Can be individual and/or group.
Medication Management
Evaluation and medication management provided by a psychiatrist or a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner.
Telepsychiatry
Telepsychiatry uses electronic communication to offer psychiatric care from far away.
Psychological & Neuropsych Testing
Psychological and neuropsychological testing are used to determine and clarify diagnoses to assist in treatment planning.
Case Management
Case management services help you connect with services and supports in the community.
Youth & Young Adult Peer Support Services
Certified peer specialists “meet” you in your recovery process and can help you understand your illness and plan your recovery.
Individualized Behavioral Health Services (IBHS)
IBHS helps youth who have a serious emotional, behavioral, or developmental disability via individual and/or group services in the home, school, and/or community.
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Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST)
MST is an intensive family and community-based treatment for youth experiencing serious antisocial behavior.
Family Based Mental Health Services (FBMHS)
FBMHS helps youth who have a serious emotional and/or behavioral disorders, as well as their families.
Community & School Based Behavioral Health Services (CSBBH)
CSBBH is an innovative model that creates an accountable clinical home for children’s behavioral health care. CSBBH teams provide services that span the home, school, and community and are available at any time. The provider and school partner with the family to create a treatment plan that meets the child’s needs. (not available in all schools)
Partial Hospitalization Program
A partial hospitalization program is a full-time therapeutic day program.
Telephone Crisis Services
Telephone Crisis services provide phone screening, counseling, and support to people experiencing a mental health crisis.
Walk In Crisis Services
Walk-In Crisis services provide immediate care to people experiencing a mental health emergency.
Mobile Crisis Services
Mobile Crisis services provide mental health crisis intervention and stabilization services in the community.
Mental Health Inpatient & Residential Services
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Inpatient Mental Health
Inpatient care is when you stay at the hospital to get help for a mental illness or serious behavioral problem.
Community Residential Rehabilitation Services (CRR)
CRR is a therapeutic foster care program.
Residential Treatment Facility (RTF)
An RTF is a place where children and youth live temporarily to get treatment for severe emotional and/or behavioral disorders that cannot be managed in the community.
Substance Abuse Disorder
Substance Use Disorder Services are defined as assessment, diagnosis, treatment, or counseling to assist an individual or group in the recovery of substance abuse or addiction, symptoms, conditions or disorders.
Outpatient & Community Based Services
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Outpatient Therapy – SUD
Outpatient services are a good place to start when you think you need help and need someone to talk to about your issues. Can be individual and/or group.
SUD Level of Care Assessment
A level of care assessment helps to determine the severity of alcohol or drug use.
Case Management – SUD
Case management services help you connect with services and supports in the community.
Inpatient & Residential Services
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Withdrawal Management (SUD Detox)
Detox offers 24-hour care to help you “get off” of the substances you are addicted to.
Residential Services (SUD Rehab)
Rehab offers 24-hour care in a safe environment for people who have a drug or alcohol addiction.
Contact Us
To locate a provider for each of the services above, use Community Care’s provider search or you can call:
Blair County Member Services: 1-855-520-9715
En espanol: 1-866-229-3187
TTY/TDD: (Dial 711) Request 1-833-545-9191
Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP)
The current public children’s behavioral health system in Pennsylvania is based on the principles and framework developed more than 20 years ago through the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP). This Introduction to CASSP describes the origins of CASSP in Pennsylvania, highlights current initiatives and services, and lists some basic children’s behavioral health services.
CASSP Principles
Child-centered: Services are planned to meet the individual needs of the child, rather than to fit the child into an existing service. Services consider the child’s family and community contexts, are developmentally appropriate and child-specific, and build on the strengths of the child and family to meet the mental health, social and physical needs of the child.
Family-focused: The family is the primary support system for the child and it is important to help empower the family to advocate for themselves. The family participates as a full partner in all stages of the decision-making and treatment planning process including implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. A family may include biological, adoptive and foster parents, siblings, grandparents, other relatives, and other adults who are committed to the child. The development of mental health policy at state and local levels includes family representation.
Community-based: Whenever possible, services are delivered in the child’s home community, drawing on formal and informal resources to promote the child’s successful participation in the community. Community resources include not only mental health professionals and provider agencies but also social, religious, cultural organizations and other natural community support networks.
Multi-system: Services are planned in collaboration with all the child-serving systems involved in the child’s life. Representatives from all these systems and the family collaborate to define the goals for the child, develop a service plan, develop the necessary resources to implement the plan, provide appropriate support to the child and family, and evaluate progress.
Culturally competent: Culture determines our worldview and provides a general design for living and patterns for interpreting reality that are reflected in our behavior. Therefore, services that are culturally competent are provided by individuals who have the skills to recognize and respect the behavior, ideas, attitudes, values, beliefs, customs, language, rituals, ceremonies and practices characteristic of a particular group of people.
Least restrictive/least intrusive: Services take place in settings that are the most appropriate and natural for the child and family and are the least restrictive and intrusive available to meet the needs of the child and family.
System of Care (SOC) Principles
System of Care (SOC) is a national initiative under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration with a focus on improving behavioral health outcomes for children and their families.
- YOUTH AND FAMILY-DRIVEN
- CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY COMPETENT
- STRENGTHS-BASED
- HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED
- INDIVIDUALIZED
- DATA DRIVEN AND OUTCOME – ORIENTED
- TRAUMA-INFORMED
- ACCESSIBLE AND COST EFFECTIVE
- EVIDENCE-BASED
- NATURAL SUPPORTS AND NETWORKS
- MULTI-SYSTEM INTEGRATION
- COUNTY LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE