At Choices, we believe that youth and families should receive support to keep children out of inpatient facilities, foster care, residential facilities, and juvenile detention. Strong families are the key to supporting children with significant emotional and behavioral challenges.
Youth who receive care coordination are stronger, more stable, and more likely to remain with their families.
National studies show that youth receiving care coordination are:
Choices supports not only helps strengthen families but also reduces the cost of providing care to youth with significant emotional and behavioral challenges.
Care coordination saves taxpayers millions of dollars each year by reducing health care, juvenile detention, social services, unemployment, and other related costs.
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Youth and families are referred to Choices in different ways but are typically enrolled by states or counties with whom we partner. We also partner directly with schools and managed care entities.
Choices provides a care coordinator for each child and family we serve. The care coordinator helps build a custom plan for each youth and family. Care coordinators:
Choices believes families are the key to supporting youth with intense emotional and behavioral needs. Care coordination is a process that brings together the perspectives and expertise of people invested in the well-being of each youth, connecting them with the best resources and services. This may include parents, teachers, pastors, health care providers, child welfare workers, and community supports in the process.
Together, we create plan of care for youth and families based on strengths. Each plan includes needs, goals, and strategies to help manage day-to-day activities, tackle challenges as they arise, and to prepare for potential crises. Because care coordination is unique to each youth and family, it is flexible, respectful of each family’s culture, and helps to hold everyone accountable.
Choices supports not only helps strengthen families but also reduces the cost of providing care to youth with significant emotional or behavioral health needs.
Care coordination recognizes the importance of non-traditional services and works with youth and families to find the best resources to meet their needs.
In most cases, Choices can pay for services like mentoring, alternative therapies, tutoring, and other services that fall outside of traditional healthcare or social welfare services. We work closely with families, our partners, and communities to develop options for Choices youth.
Get more information about our the states and counties with whom we partner to serve youth and families.