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Access Center
FOR NON-EMERGENCY EVALUATIONS (239) 275-3222
This department provides assessments ofr adult and children with pyschiatric problems. This department also provides referral to appropriate Lee Mental Health program or area services.
Children’s Targeted Case Management
Lee Mental Health’s Children’s Targeted Case Management team provides case management services in the home, school, or community setting for children up to age 17 with serious emotional problems and/or mental illnesses. Those services include an assessment of the child’s needs, planning, coordination, and monitoring of services, and advocating for the child’s needs and welfare.
Children’s Targeted Case Management operates from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. with some evening hours. Please call (239) 275-3222 ext. 1527 for further information.
Therapeutic Behavioral On-Site Services
Therapeutic Behavioral On-Site Services (TBOS) provides individual and family therapy in the home, school, or community setting for mental health and substance abuse problems. The parent/guardian must be involved in the child’s care, as TBOS is a family systems treatment approach.
Please call (239) 275-3222 ext. 1525 to find out more information or to set up an appointment.
Family-Centered Services
Family-Centered Services provides services aimed at preventing the removal of a child or children from their families and at reunifying families when removal has been necessary. It also provides services to strengthen and maintain families where an adoption is at risk of disruption. Family-Centered Services offer a continuum of services based upon the theory that it is in the best interest of children and their families for the children to be raised within their biological family whenever possible.
Specialized Therapeutic Foster Care
Specialized Therapeutic Foster Care provides individualized care in the home, school, or community setting designed to support biological, adoptive and foster families of children with unique physical, emotional, behavioral and developmental needs. This program has a capacity of 16 to 18 children; one to two children per treatment home.
Too Good For Drugs –
North Fort Myers
Academy
of the Arts
Too Good For Drugs is a school-based prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among students. This program serves grades two through five at the
North Fort Myers
Academy
of the Arts.
Lee
County
School District
Services
Lee Mental Health provides outpatient therapy and emergency outpatient sessions in a variety of schools throughout
Lee
County
. We provides on-site school psycho-educational groups including collaborative work with school personnel and family for students referred by the Department of Exceptional Student Education (ESE).
Lee Mental Health also provides PDI’s (Psychiatric Diagnostic Impressions) to a limited number of students.
Comprehensive Assessment
Lee Mental Health’s Comprehensive Assessment provides an in-depth and detailed account of a child’s emotional, social, behavioral and developmental functioning within the home, school and community. These services are provided at the Ruth Cooper campus, school, or community settings. This program’s goals include providing assessment of areas where no other information exists; integrating and interpreting all existing and new assessment information; providing functional information to the referral source, child and family; and providing the basis for developing an effective, individualized comprehensive treatment plan.
Children’s Community Action Team (CAT)
Children’s Community Action Team (CAT) supports children ages 5-17 who are enrolled in alternative school settings, at risk for out of home placement, or transitioning home from residential treatment. CAT Team partners with families to help sustain a child in their home or other clinically appropriate environment to provide therapeutic support, medication management, education, family skill building, advocacy and bridges to community resources.
Families must meet eligibility requirements and services are determined by family need with support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For more information concerning eligibility or other questions, please call (239) 275-3222 ext. 5450.
The Family Life Center
The Family Life Center at Michigan Links Housing Development targets inner city residents of public housing. The Family Life Center works in partnership with many community groups and organizations to collaborate and respond to the needs for prevention and intervention support services. The locations are a “safe place” for children and adults to socialize, learn about community resources and receive a variety of services including social and recreational activities, drug prevention activities, and food distribution, parenting classes and information and referral for medical, mental health, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS infection, and Mommy and Me Classes and Activities.
The Family Life Center also provides screening, assessment, education, and treatment services for TANF (Treatment Alternatives for Needy Families) eligible clients who are having economic and employment instability due to mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, and/or family instability. The goals of the TANF program focus on helping families avoid welfare dependence and stabilizing families so that children can be cared for in their own homes and families can experience economic self-sufficiency.
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