Contracted Systems Administrator (CSA)
Value Options is the Contracted System Administrator (CSA) designated to organize services and funding into a single system where child welfare, mental health and juvenile justice work together. The CSA provides a systematic way to ensure children and their families receive optimal treatment for an appropriate length of time while remaining as close to home as possible.
It evaluates appropriate treatment requirements for children based on uniform assessment tools and places them accordingly in the continuum of care. Through the Mobile Response Stabilization Services, the CSA provides 24 hour assistance to help families get services.
Youth Case Management
When children are deemed to need less strenuous care than that provided by a Care Management Organization, Value Options will refer them to Youth Case Management (YCM). YCM has a leadership role in the coordination and integration of services designed to optimize care for children and families.
Care Managers at YCM develop supportive relationships with the children and families they serve. As with the CMO, care is based upon the family’s strengths, and all interventions are characterized by dignity, respect, and self-determination.
YCM advocates for the needs and vies of the child and their family. The goal is to transition children out of the continuum of care once the child and their families are confident that they can access the services on their own.
Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Service (CMRSS):
Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services is a single, integrated, comprehensive system of mobile response, stabilization intervention and transition. MRSS provides timely interventions to prevent disruption of their current living arrangement, including out-of-home placement.
It provides a face-to-face delivery of service at the site of the escalating behavior, whether this is the child’s home, school, group home or another living arrangement, including resource and foster family homes.
With parental/guardian consent, family members, professionals, and other concerned parties can access MRS services by calling the CSA at 877-652-7624, 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.
Family Support Organization (FSO)
The Family Support Organization is a system partner within the Children’s Behavioral Health Services. It is a private, non-profit organization established to make the system family friendly and responsive to the needs of children and families.
The Family Support Organization is designed, built and run by family members of emotionally and/or behaviorally challenged children. The FSO provides direct family-to-family peer support, education, advocacy and other services to family members of children with emotional and behavioral needs. They provide information advocacy guidance, group support and volunteer opportunities at the local level and works in conjunction with Cape Atlantic INK to carry out the philosophies and objectives of the Department of Children and Families.
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