RHC Announces a New Program…
DD/MH Partnership for Children
RHC and Hamilton Choices, LLC have partnered together to bring to life a project that will allow children and youth with co-occurring mental illness and developmental disability in Hamilton County to receive needed services at their home and in their community. These children typically have very significant needs and some of them are served in out-of-county residential facilities, as there is currently no comprehensive model of care for children with co-occurring diagnoses in Hamilton County. The new project is a least restrictive model of care that will maximize family supports to enable children to receive needed services at home and in the community.
This project called, The DD/MH Partnership for Children, will serve a target population of youth ages 6-16 with co-occurring diagnoses of developmental disability and mental health needs. To enable the DD/MH Partnership for Children to come to life, RHC, togetherwith Hamilton Choices, secured a grant from the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati to fund the project. RHC will provide direct services, in the form of a Therapeutic Respite Center and specialized support services, to the children with DD/MH ages 6-16 referred by Hamilton Choices. Hamilton Choices will identify their current consumers that could benefit from services provided by RHC and be the primary referral source to RHC’s DD/MH programs.
Children with complex behavioral presentations are often underserved or not served at all by traditional therapeutic respite, recreational or educational services offered to other children with developmental disabilities. As a result of local systemic inadequacies and lack of capacity, many of these individuals are served by extremely expensive out-of-state facilities where their needs can be more fully and appropriately addressed. This solution is not only a costly one - financially (to funders) and emotionally (to families and their children) - but makes a successful return home unduly complicated.
The future of DD/MH Partnership for Children is unlimited. RHC hopes to expand additional services that will support this under served population and develop additional referral sources so more children and youth in our community get the support they need without leaving the community in which they know and live.
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