Services

Community Resources within Child and Family Services

	Crisis Response Services	Baltimore Child and Adolescent Response System(B-CARS) - Provides comprehensive mobile community- based services for children in psychiatric crisis to divert or shorten in-patient hospitalization.
	Early Childhood Programs
		Early Childhood Mental Health Screening Services - provide assessment, case management services and follow-up therapeutic services to children 0-5 (and their families) who are identified by local day care centers as “at-risk” due to behavior problems.
		Head Start Consultation - provides behavioral consultation and mental health referral services to children and families participating in Head Starts.
		Safe Start - Provides early screening, intervention and referral for children in Harford County at risk of abuse and neglect.
	In-Home Support Services
		Anne Arundel County and Prince Georges County Hospitalization Diversion Program - provides in-home and 24 hour crisis intervention to children and families to help them remain in the community.
		Bridges to Success - Provides delinquency prevention services to Harford County children with severe behavioral problems.
		Home-Based Respite - Provides respite for families in the family’s home or community, permitting the caretaker to attend to other demands. Services available in Baltimore City, Cecil, Harford and Baltimore Counties.
		In-Home Intervention Program - Provides intensive in-home intervention to divert children/youth from hospitalization or residential treatment center placement and/or to provide behavioral support to the child and family.
	Out-Patient Services
		Behavioral Health Clinics - provide individual and family outpatient services in Baltimore City and seven Maryland counties. Services are targeted to those individuals and families eligible for Medicaid and MD Child Health Insurance.
		School Consultation Program - Provides behavioral health consultation to teachers and staff in parochial schools in Central Maryland.
		Therapeutic After School Programs - Provide intensive community based therapeutic services in two Baltimore Co. locations, Timonium and Lansdowne, to children with severe emotional difficulties.
		White Oak School Program - Provides clinical services to children and families in the White Oak School in Baltimore County.
	Treatment Foster Care	Provides a variety of treatment foster care services to infants, children and adolescents who are exhibiting behavioral, emotional and/or medical concerns.
		HOPE - a specialized treatment foster care program provides services to medically fragile infants and children.
	Short-Term Temporary Relief Services	The Family to Family Respite Program - provides overnight relief for those caregivers in Baltimore, Harford, Cecil and Carroll Counties who face the challenge of raising a child or adolescent with emotional or behavioral difficulties.
		Therapeutic Alternative Shelter Care (TASC) - is provides short-term overnight care for youth receiving support from the department of juvenile servicesservices .