Behavioral health services for youth and families
Choices Behavioral Health Solutions serves youth with serious and complex mental health needs.
We provide trauma-informed care, which means we consider the impact past trauma has made on each youth’s mental health and how they learned to cope.
Treatment is also evidence-based – heavily researched by experts and proven to be effective.
Who we serve
We provide mental health services for youth and families involved with:
- Child welfare,
- Juvenile justice,
- The Indiana Children’s Mental Health Initiative (CMHI),
- The Indiana Department of Education (DOE), or
- The Indiana Cross-System Care Coordination program.
Choices clinicians get to know each youth and family’s preferences, beliefs, and values. We develop a plan of care specific to their needs.
Our goals
Choices Behavioral Health Solutions aims to:
- Improve the mental health of youth and their parents
- Prevent unnecessary removal of youth from their homes
- Strengthen family stability and resilience
- Enhance parent-child communication, attachment, and ability to maintain safety
- Coordinate care across multiple systems and providers
Our services
We schedule services with each youth and family at times and locations convenient for them. Locations could include: a family’s home, a school, another community setting, or at Choices office if needed.
Our services include:
- Individual therapy
- Family therapy
- Group therapy
- Case management
- Behavioral support services
- Coordination with primary care and other service providers
Eligibility
Most of the youth we serve are:
- 6 to 18 years old
- Medicaid-eligible (if not referred through an existing contract)
- Diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder (according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, also known as DSM 5) – and excluding Intellectual Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders
There are sometimes exceptions to these eligibility requirements that we will work through with the referral agency.
Referrals and contact information
Choices Behavioral Health Solutions receives referrals through contracts with the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS), Choices Coordinated Care Solutions, and the Indiana CMHI Program.
We can also serve Medicaid-eligible youth via referrals from juvenile courts, schools, or Indiana Managed Care Organizations (MCOs).
For more information, contact:
Choices Behavioral Health Solutions
317.472.8515
BHS@ChoicesCCS.org