Child Services

Carolina Outreach offers the following child services, the cornerstone of its mental health services when the agency was launched in 2003:

• Diagnostic Assessments
  Diagnostic Assessments – Diagnostic Assessments at Carolina Outreach is an intensive clinical and functional face-to-face evaluation of a client's mental health, developmental disability, or substance abuse condition that results in the issuance of a diagnostic/assessment report with a recommendation regarding whether the client meets target population criteria, and includes an order for enhanced benefit services that provides the basis for the development of an initial Person-Centered Plan (PCP) ... [click here for more detail]
• IIH – Intensive In-Home
  Intensive In-Home services at Carolina Outreach are a time-limited, focused family preservation intervention for identified youth through the age of 20, intended to stabilize current living arrangements, promote reunification, and prevent the use of out-of-home therapeutic placements (i.e., psychiatric hospital, therapeutic foster care, residential treatment facility). These services are delivered primarily to children in their family's home, with the following goals aimed at restoring the family's inherent social strengths ... [click here for more detail]
• TCM – Targeted Case Management
  Targeted Case Management services at Carolina Outreach assist children (under age 21) who have a serious emotional disturbance, mental illness, or a substance abuse disorder and who are in a residential setting and need coordination of services (including medical, behavioral, and social) to transition to a less restrictive level of care. TCM is individualized, person-centered, empowering, comprehensive, strengths-based, and outcome-focused. The functions of case management include the following ... [click here for more detail]
• SBMH – School-Based Mental Health
  School-based Mental Health services at Carolina Outreach are designed to assist students who are experiencing challenges at school and/or at home that are interfering with their academic success. These challenges may include:
• • School avoidance
  • Symptoms of depression or anxiety
  • Frequent suspensions or detentions
  • Excessive worry, stress, conflict with peers and/or adults
  • Difficulty concentrating ... [click here for more detail]