AIDS Mental Health
Services
Program Description
Counseling services are provided to children whose parents have AIDS.
The services
are provided in collaboration with Evergreen and Casey Family Services. The
purpose is to promote positive child development and emotional
well being in children as well as to empower families to provide a nurturing and
safe haven for
children to grow and mature. The treatment is child centered
family focused, strength-based and culturally competent. We are a community based
agency that
offers a continuum of quality outpatient behavioral health
services to children under the age of 18 and their families. It includes:
1. Psychotherapy:
The Center provides individual, family, and group therapy to its clients.
2. Diagnostic Evaluation:
Psychiatric Evaluations and psychological testing are available to children actively
engaged in treatment.
3. Community-Based Services:
Therapists are stationed at various agencies within Bridgeport to provide psychotherapy
services to children and their families.
4. Advocacy:
Outpatient therapists advocate for families in order to help them overcome or confront
barriers to better education, housing, health or other
social/human needs.
In order to increase access to care, therapists provide
treatment at three clinic sites- in Bridgeport, Stratford, and Fairfield as well
as in various community
settings in Bridgeport such as schools and community centers.
Program Eligibility
Services are available to any affected or infected child under the age of 18 whose
parents have HIV/AIDS who resides in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Stratford, Trumbull,
Monroe and Easton. Children under the age of 18 years old will be admitted for treatment
following an intake screening by telephone or in person. Children and
their families are eligible regardless of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation,
disabilities or ethnic origin. A child in need of immediate hospitalization will
be
referred to our Crisis Program.
Accessing Service:
Requests for services can be made by parents, school personnel, physicians, as well
as
adolescents. Families are scheduled for an initial evaluation
which is
followed by treatment.
Client
Fee
Fee for services are based on a sliding scale, although
no services are denied because of inability to pay. The program accepts Medicaid
and several commercial
insurance. Please call to confirm insurance coverage.
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