Mobile Response and Stabilization Management Services
8 weeks authorization - Child /Youth
1-877-652-7624
Program Definition
Mobile Response Stabilization interventions provide Parents/caregivers/guardians with short-term, flexible services that assist in stabiliziang children/youth in their home/community setting. Interventions are designed to maintain the child/youth in his/her current living arrangement, to prevent repeated hospitalizations, to stabilize behavioral health needs and to improve functioning in life domains, as identified. Interventions at this level of care include the delivery of a flexible variety of services through the development of a comprehensive and coordinated individual crisis plan (ICP). Children/youth , based upon need, enter Mobile Response Stabilization Services following the completion of the Mobile Response Assessment and the development of the ICP by the Mobile Response Team during the first 72 hours.
Interventions may include, but are not limited to, crisis intervention, counseling, stabilization bed services, behavioral assistance, in-home therapy, intensive in community services, skill building, mentoring, edcation management and/or parent/caregiver /guardian stabilization interventions. Mobile REsponse Stabilization Services are managed and monitored by the Children'sMobile Response Stabilization Administrator. Mobile Response Stabilization interventions can be delivered for up to eight weeks. Use of these interventions will vary by setting, intensity, duration and identified nees. The objective of Mobile Response Stabilization Services would be to ultimately defuse the current crisis and help link the youth and family with longer-standing therapeutic resources which are consistent with their treatment needs. This may involve linking the family with services outside of the DCSOC system.
CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
As of January 1, 2013, the New Jersey Department of Children and Families - Division of Children’s System of Care (CSOC) assumed responsibility for determining eligibility of children under age 18 for developmental disability services and for providing support and services formerly provided by the Department of Human Services - Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) for individuals under age 21. For information on the application process please call:
1-877-652-7624
Mobile Response Stabilization interventions provide Parents/caregivers/guardians with short-term, flexible services that assist in stabiliziang children/youth in their home/community setting. Interventions are designed to maintain the child/youth in his/her current living arrangement, to prevent repeated hospitalizations, to stabilize behavioral health needs and to improve functioning in life domains, as identified. Interventions at this level of care include the delivery of a flexible variety of services through the development of a comprehensive and coordinated individual crisis plan (ICP). Children/youth , based upon need, enter Mobile Response Stabilization Services following the completion of the Mobile Response Assessment and the development of the ICP by the Mobile Response Team during the first 72 hours.
Interventions may include, but are not limited to, crisis intervention, counseling, stabilization bed services, behavioral assistance, in-home therapy, intensive in community services, skill building, mentoring, edcation management and/or parent/caregiver /guardian stabilization interventions. Mobile REsponse Stabilization Services are managed and monitored by the Children'sMobile Response Stabilization Administrator. Mobile Response Stabilization interventions can be delivered for up to eight weeks. Use of these interventions will vary by setting, intensity, duration and identified nees. The objective of Mobile Response Stabilization Services would be to ultimately defuse the current crisis and help link the youth and family with longer-standing therapeutic resources which are consistent with their treatment needs. This may involve linking the family with services outside of the DCSOC system.
CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
As of January 1, 2013, the New Jersey Department of Children and Families - Division of Children’s System of Care (CSOC) assumed responsibility for determining eligibility of children under age 18 for developmental disability services and for providing support and services formerly provided by the Department of Human Services - Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) for individuals under age 21. For information on the application process please call:
1-877-652-7624
Admission Criteria - 8 week MRSS
1) The child/youth /young adult are between the ages of 5 and 21. Special Consideration will be given to children under 5. Eligibility for services isin place until the youths 21st birthday.
2) The Division of Childrens System of Care Assessment and other relevant inforamtion indicate that the child/youth needs the Mobile REsponse Stabilization Services level of care. 3) The child/youth exhibits moderate to high intensity risk behaviors which are impacting his/her overall functioning; and/or the current functional impairment is a clearly notable change compared with previosu functioning. 4) The child/youth exhibits moderate to high intensity behavioral/emotional symptoms whichare impacting his/her overall functioning; and/or the current functional impairment is a clearly notable change compared with previous functioning. 5) The parent/caregiver/guardian capability is limited at this time. 6) The child/youth is at risk of being placed out of his/her home or present living arrangemnet. 7) The child/youth appears to have co-occurring treatment needs related to developmental disability and behavioral health, and they are exhibiting behaviors which are compromising the safety of themselves and others. The extent of cognitive impairment and developmental disability needs may not be clear, but hereis clear indication that the child/youth woud benefit from brief crisis stabilization services with the goal of linking the youtha nd family with clinically appropriate community based services. Psychosocial, occupational, cultural and linguistic Factors: these factors may change the risk assessment and should be considered when making level of care decisions. |
Exclusion Criteria for 8 week MRSSAny of the following criteria is sufficient for exclusion from this level of care:
1. The child/yoth's parent/guardian/custodian does not voluntarily consent to treatment and there is no court order requiring such treatment. 2. The Division of Childrens System of Care Assessment and other relevant information indicate that the child/youth does not need mobile response services, as they need either a less intensive therapeutic service or a more intensive theapeutic service. 3. The child/youth manifests behavioral and/or psychiatric symptoms that require amore intensive level of care. 4. The child/youth is at imminent risk of causing seriouis harm to self/others. 5. The child or youth manifests behavioral and/or psychiatirc symptoms which require a less intensive level of care. 6. The child/youth can be safely maintained and effectively treated at a less intensive level of care. 7. The symptoms are a result of a medical condition that warrants a medical setting for treatment. 8. The child/youth's sold diagnosis is Substance Abuse, and the emotional or behavioral distrubances appear to be mainly correlated with substance use, either intoxication or acue withdrawal effects of substances being used. 9. The child/youth has a sole diagnosis of Autism of high severity which includes significant communicaiton skills deficits and funcitonal impairment and there are no reported or documented co-occurring DSM IV Axis I Diagnoses, or symptoms/behaviors consistent with a DSM IV Axis I Diagnosis which could potentialy benefit fromthe provision of short term rehabilitative or crisis stabilization services. 10. The child/youth has a sole diagnosis of Mental REtardation/Cognitive Impairment of high severity which includes significant communication skills deficits and functional impairment, and there are no reported or documented co-occurring DSM IV Axis I Diagnoses, or symptoms/behaviors consistent with a DSM IV Axis I Diagnosis which could potentialy benefit fromthe provision of short term rehabilitative or crisis stabilization services. |