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A Continuum of Care
Providing mental and behavioral health services to children, youth and their families.

DCF is committed to community-based, family-focused care in the home with placement and hospitalization only as a last resort. Services include:

  • Mobile Response & Stabilization Services
  • Community-Based Care Management
    o Care Management Organizations (CMOs)
    o Youth Case Management programs (YCMs)
    o Unified Case Management (UCM)
    o Family Support Organizations (FSOs)
  • Behavioral Assistance & Intensive In-Community Services
  • Residential Services
    o Treatment Homes
    o Group Homes
    o Psychiatric Community Residences & Specialty Beds
    o Residential Treatment Centers (RTC)
    o Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS)
  • Partial care, outpatient, in-patient hospitalization & in-patient intermediate & acute in-patient treatment
Residential Placement
All Care Management Services (CMO, YCM & UCM)
Care Management Organizations (CMO)
Youth Case Management (YCM)
Unified Case Mangement (UCM)
Mobile Response & Stabilization Services (MRSS)

Residential Placement

Residential placement is reserved for youth with the highest levels of need who cannot be maintained at home. The demand for residential care remains high across the wide continuum of services.

DCF's continuing reform of the residential care system presents opportunities to maximize utilization of existing services and develop proven community-based alternatives to high end residential care which will eventually allow New Jersey to reduce reliance on out of state placements.

Residential care includes (from least to most restrictive):

  • Treatment Homes
  • Group Homes
  • Psychiatric Community Residences & Specialty Beds
  • Residential Treatment Centers
  • Intensive Residential Treatment (IRT)


Type of Out-of-Home Placements:

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Age of Youth Served In Placement:
 


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Gender of Youth Served In Placement:

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Race/Ethnicity of Youth Served in Placement

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YOUTH SERVED IN OUT-OF-STATE PLACEMENTS

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All Care Management Services (CMO, YCM & UCM)


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Age of Youth Served:

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Gender of Youth Served:

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Race/Ethnicity of Youth Served:
Note: Data limitations suggest participation of Hispanic/Latino youth are under-represented below.

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Care Management Organizations (CMO)

DCF has worked to build an intensive level of community-based case management designed to coordinate services for multi-system involved youth with high levels of need.

GOALS:  Maintain children at home with access to wraparound, community-based services. In the exceptional cases when residential care is necessary, facilitate entry, maintain family contact throughout placement - and plan and execute step-down.

Type of CMO Services:

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Youth Case Management (YCM)

Youth Case Management (YCM) is a moderate level of community-based case management designed to coordinate services for multi-system involved youth with moderate levels of need.

GOALS:  Maintain children at home with access to wrap-around community-based services. Primary agencies responsible for providing 14-day plans for children involved with the juvenile court.

Type of YCM Services:

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Unified Case Mangement (UCM)

Type of UCM Service:

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Mobile Response & Stabilization Services (MRSS)

A phone call  brings clinical staff rapidly to the home to respond to crisis.

  • Clinical staff respond within one hour of dispatch
  • Families receive up to 72 hour in-home crisis and stabilization services which can be followed by up to eight weeks of intensive in-community, behavioral assistance or wrap-around services

GOALS:  Maintain children and youth in their home environment and avoid unnecessary hospitalization or out of home placement.


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