New Directions Community Outreach Services

*ages 4+

*service area: all of planning district 16

Child meets at least two of the following criteria on a continuing or intermittent basis:

• Has difficulty in establishing or maintaining normal personal relationship to such a degree that he or she is at risk of hospitalization or out-of-home placement because of conflicts with family or community.
• Exhibits such inappropriate behavior that repeated interventions by the mental health, social services, or judicial system is necessary.
• Exhibits difficulty in cognitive ability such that he or she is unable to recognize personal danger or recognize inappropriate social behavior.

Child meets at least one of the following criteria:

• Child requires services that are far more intensive than outpatient care to stabilize the child in the family situation.
• The child’s residence as the setting for services is more likely to be successful than a clinic.
• At least one parent with whom the child is living must be willing to participate in in-home services, with the goal of keeping the child with the family.
• Child is enrolled in Medicaid.