What We Do via Department of Child Services

Our team of therapists and counselors provides services to parents, foster parents, and children who need to work through their current or past trauma to move forward in their case and life overall.  These services include generational patterns, self-esteem, domestic violence, behavioral modification, sexually maladaptive behaviors, substance use, interpersonal relationships, support systems, and other personal and family conflicts or trauma hindering a healthy and productive life.

 Case managers collaboratively work with families to arrange, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate individualized services needed to meet the client’s needs and any court requirements.  

Each Case Manager follows the Seven Phases of Case Management to properly manage the flow of the client's progress, continuously assess and make changes as needed to meet goals, and collaborate with the provider team as necessary and needed for success.

 It is the fundamental right of children to visit with their parents and siblings.  The relationship developed by the child with the parent is one of bonding, dependency, and being nurtured, all of which must be protected by the emotional well-being of the child.  The role of the visitation provider is to protect the integrity of the visit and to provide a positive atmosphere where parents and children may interact in a safe, structured environment.  We are general and therapeutic visitation services.

Our therapists work directly with families and placement of children to coordinate parenting time for the family.  Parenting Time is essential for child well-being and frequent family time correlates with successful reunification of families. The provider will monitor and supervise visits between parents and their children, to ensure child safety and encourage the ongoing attachment between the parent and the child. 

Our team actively works with DCS employees to successfully engage fathers in services that will improve the safety, stability, well-being, and permanency of their children. They focus on issues directly impacting the father's involvement and develop ways to enhance the bond and relationship with the child(ren). Our skilled providers will assist fathers in strengthening the relationship with their children and promoting positive relationships between the families, 

 The Mother Enrichment Program is a 12-week Parenting Curriculum that works with mothers with DCS cases. They are able to identify their parenting strengths and weaknesses as well as address issues within their cases so they can become equipped to further reunification for their cases. They learn various parenting and communication styles, and how to address their issues with their various provider team members.

Day Reporting programs provide intensive supervision and assessed programming to children exhibiting a pattern of delinquent, negative or mental-related behaviors. The primary functions of Day Reporting includes intensive supervision, utilization of a cognitive behavior change approach in group and individual settings, and creation of positive behavioral patterns through individual and group programming to prevent the removal of the child from the home, increase community safety, improve family functioning or to ensure the child remains in school or receives an education. 

At The Behavioral Center, we are dedicated to providing compassionate and effective support services. Our mission is to empower individuals to overcome personal challenges and achieve mental wellness. We have specific groups for our clients involved in domestic abuse [parent and child], our youth in foster placement facing adolescent challenges and our foster families who need more support working with children in their homes. Many of these groups are virtual and some are in person. 

Our facilitators and support team utilize our "Still I Rise" 26-week curriculum that covers the complexity of physical, sexual, mental and psychological abuse while providing the necessary tools and support for healing and recovery. We have extensive weekly sessions along with virtual support groups that are available during and after the program is complete. The sessions will also cover the impact on the children who witnessed or experienced the abuse and how to guide them toward their own healing.