The purpose of TYIA’s Behavioral Health Services is to facilitate recovery which includes the individual’s ability to make decisions about the individual’s life and create opportunities for choice regarding home, school or work, and the community.
Our staff will assist clients by using interventions to promote the use of community resources and self-help organizations to support the individual to participate fully in the community of their choice. All services are offered at times and places according to the needs of the individuals served, and are coordinated with other mental health services including the referring therapist.
Services are available in the following areas:
Community Integration
These services are for children and adults who experience intellectual disability and mental illness, and are provided in-home or in the community. These services help clients become as independent as possible in the living, learning, working and social environments of their choice, and help clients develop or maintain life skills and connections to the community. Interventions are designed to boost physical, emotional, social and behavioral health and development to help clients improve their ability to communicate and socialize.
Community Support
We coordinate and develop professional and natural systems for mental health support. Our team helps people understand their needs and plan their services. Examples include keeping track of mental health symptoms, managing medications, giving personal support and help with problem-solving, developing natural supports and coordinating transportation for appointments.
PRP services are an extension to therapy services, and our role is to support the psycho-therapeutic aspect of an individual’s mental health treatment by addressing what happens internally, mentally, and emotionally.
Youth-Focused Services
We provide supportive and educational services for students, youth, and their parents, including:
– Independent living skills and IEP/ support and advocacy, transitional age youth support services
– Health promotion and training, especially for children and parents with IEP students in transition (i.e. IEP treatment plan, challenges, advocacy in family/home/school dynamics, student/ teacher interaction and support, etc)
– Safe sex and prevention as a tool to keep youth focused on self-care and wellness
We ensure parents, youth, and special needs children are aware of and have access to entitlements, educational development, career development and other available benefits. We also strengthen communication skills between parents/teachers and between children, parents and other adults, and promote the recovery and self-determination process for youth to fully develop to the maximum potential.